KNIFE-CONFIGURE(1)

NAME
knife-configure - The man page for the knife configure subcommand.

The knife configure subcommand is used to create the knife.rb and client.rb files so that they can be distributed to workstations and nodes.

Common Options

The following options can be run with all Knife sub-commands and plug-ins:

-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
    The configuration file to use.

--color
    Indicates that colored output will be used.

-d, --disable-editing
    Indicates that $EDITOR will not be opened; data will be accepted as-is.

--defaults
    Indicates that Knife will use the default value, instead of asking a user to provide one.

-e EDITOR, --editor EDITOR
    The $EDITOR that is used for all interactive commands.

-E ENVIRONMENT, --environment ENVIRONMENT
    The name of the environment. When this option is added to a command, the command will run only against the named environment.

-f FILE_NAME, --file FILE_NAME
    Indicates that the private key will be saved to a specified file name.

-F FORMAT, --format FORMAT
    The output format: summary (default), text, json, yaml, and pp.

-h, --help
    Shows help for the command.

-k KEY, --key KEY
    The private key that Knife will use to sign requests made by the API client to the server.

--no-color
    Indicates that color will not be used in the output.

-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
    The user password.

--print-after
    Indicates that data will be shown after a destructive operation.

-s URL, --server-url URL
    The URL for the server.

-u USER, --user USER
    The user name used by Knife to sign requests made by the API client to the server. Authentication will fail if the user name does not match the private key.

-v, --version
    The version of the chef-client.

-V, --verbose
    Set for more verbose outputs. Use -VV for maximum verbosity.

-y, --yes
    Indicates that the response to all confirmation prompts will be "Yes" (and that Knife will not ask for confirmation).

    Syntax

    This argument has the following syntax:

    $ knife configure (options)

    Options

    This subcommand has the following options:

--admin-client-name NAME
    The name of the client, typically the name of the admin client.

--admin-client-key PATH
    The path to the private key used by the client, typically a file named admin.pem.

-i, --initial
    Use to create a API client, typically an administrator client on a freshly-installed server.

-r REPO, --repository REPO
    The path to the chef-repo.

--validation-client-name NAME
    The name of the validation client.

--validation-key PATH
    The path to the validation key used by the client, typically a file named validation.pem.

    Examples

    To create a knife.rb file, enter:

    $ knife configure

    To configure a client.rb, enter:

    $ knife configure client '/directory'

AUTHOR
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