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knife supermarket

The knife supermarket subcommand is used to interact with cookbooks that are located in on the public Supermarket as well as private Chef Supermarket sites. A user account is required for any community actions that write data to the Chef Supermarket; however, the following arguments do not require a user account: download, search, install, and list.

Note

Please consider managing community cookbooks using the version of Berkshelf that ships with Chef Workstation. For more information about Chef Workstation, see About Chef Workstation.

Note

Review the list of common options available to this (and all) knife subcommands and plugins.

download

Use the download argument to download a cookbook from Chef Supermarket. A cookbook will be downloaded as a tar.gz archive and placed in the current working directory. If a cookbook (or cookbook version) has been deprecated and the --force option is not used, knife will alert the user that the cookbook is deprecated and then will provide the name of the most recent non-deprecated version of that cookbook.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket download COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

COOKBOOK_VERSION

The version of a cookbook to be downloaded. If a cookbook has only one version, this option does not need to be specified. If a cookbook has more than one version and this option is not specified, the most recent version of the cookbook is downloaded.

-f FILE, --file FILE

The file to which a cookbook download is written.

--force

Overwrite an existing directory.

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Download a cookbook

To download the cookbook mysql, enter:

knife supermarket download mysql

install

Use the install argument to install a cookbook that has been downloaded from Chef Supermarket to a local git repository . This action uses the git version control system in conjunction with Chef Supermarket site to install community-contributed cookbooks to the local chef-repo. Using this argument does the following:

  1. A new “pristine copy” branch is created in git for tracking the upstream.
  2. All existing versions of a cookbook are removed from the branch.
  3. The cookbook is downloaded from Chef Supermarket in the tar.gz format.
  4. The downloaded cookbook is untarred and its contents are committed to git and a tag is created.
  5. The “pristine copy” branch is merged into the master branch.

This process allows the upstream cookbook in the master branch to be modified while letting git maintain changes as a separate patch. When an updated upstream version becomes available, those changes can be merged while maintaining any local modifications.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket install COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

-b, --use-current-branch

Ensure that the current branch is used.

-B BRANCH, --branch BRANCH

The name of the default branch. This defaults to the master branch.

COOKBOOK_VERSION

The version of the cookbook to be installed. If a version is not specified, the most recent version of the cookbook is installed.

-D, --skip-dependencies

Ensure that all cookbooks to which the installed cookbook has a dependency are not installed.

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

-o PATH:PATH, --cookbook-path PATH:PATH

The directory in which cookbooks are created. This can be a colon-separated path.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Install a cookbook

To install the cookbook mysql, enter:

knife supermarket install mysql

list

Use the list argument to view a list of cookbooks that are currently available at Chef Supermarket.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket list (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

-w, --with-uri

Show the corresponding URIs.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

View a list of cookbooks

To view a list of cookbooks at the Chef Supermarket server, enter:

knife supermarket list

to return a list similar to:

1password                            minecraft
301                                  mineos
7-zip                                minidlna
AWS_see_spots_run                    minitest
AmazonEC2Tag                         minitest-handler
Appfirst-Cookbook                    mirage
CVE-2014-3566-poodle                 mlocate
CVE-2015-0235                        mod_security
Obfsproxy                            mod_security2
R                                    modcloth-hubot
Rstats                               modcloth-nad
SysinternalsBginfo                   modman
VRTSralus                            modules
abiquo                               mogilefs
acadock                              mongodb
accel-ppp                            mongodb-10gen
accounts                             mongodb-agents
accumulator                          monit
...

Use the search argument to search for a cookbooks located at Chef Supermarket. A search query is used to return a list of these cookbooks and uses the same syntax as the knife search subcommand.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket search SEARCH_QUERY (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Search for cookbooks

To search for a cookbook, use a command similar to:

knife supermarket search mysql

where mysql is the search term. This will return something similar to:

mysql:
  cookbook:             https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/mysql
  cookbook_description: Provides mysql_service, mysql_config, and mysql_client resources
  cookbook_maintainer:  chef
  cookbook_name:        mysql
mysql-apt-config:
  cookbook:             https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/mysql-apt-config
  cookbook_description: Installs/Configures mysql-apt-config
  cookbook_maintainer:  tata
  cookbook_name:        mysql-apt-config
mysql-multi:
  cookbook:             https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/mysql-multi
  cookbook_description: MySQL replication wrapper cookbook
  cookbook_maintainer:  rackops
  cookbook_name:        mysql-multi

share

Use the share argument to add a cookbook to Chef Supermarket. This action will require a user account and a certificate for Chef Supermarket. By default, knife will use the user name and API key that is identified in the configuration file used during the upload; otherwise these values must be specified on the command line or in an alternate configuration file. If a cookbook already exists in Chef Supermarket, then only an owner or maintainer of that cookbook can make updates.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket share COOKBOOK_NAME CATEGORY (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

CATEGORY

The cookbook category: "Databases", "Web Servers", "Process Management", "Monitoring & Trending", "Programming Languages", "Package Management", "Applications", "Networking", "Operating Systems & Virtualization", "Utilities", or "Other".

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

-o PATH:PATH, --cookbook-path PATH:PATH

The directory in which cookbooks are created. This can be a colon-separated path.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Share a cookbook

To share a cookbook named my_apache2_cookbook and add it to the Web Servers category in Chef Supermarket:

knife supermarket share "my_apache2_cookbook" "Web Servers"

show

Use the show argument to view information about a cookbook located at Chef Supermarket.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket show COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

COOKBOOK_VERSION

The version of a cookbook to be shown. If a cookbook has only one version, this option does not need to be specified. If a cookbook has more than one version and this option is not specified, a list of cookbook versions is returned.

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Show cookbook data

To show the details for a cookbook named mysql:

knife supermarket show mysql

to return something similar to:

average_rating:
category:      Other
created_at:    2009-10-28T19:16:54.000Z
deprecated:    false
description:   Provides mysql_service, mysql_config, and mysql_client resources
external_url:  https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/mysql
issues_url:    https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/mysql/issues
latest_version:  https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/mysql/versions/8.5.1
maintainer:    sous-chefs
metrics:
  collaborators: 2
  downloads:
    total:  128998032
  versions:
    0.10.0: 927561
    0.15.0: 927536
    0.20.0: 927321
    0.21.0: 927298
    0.21.1: 927311
    0.21.2: 927424
    0.21.3: 927441
    0.21.5: 927326
    0.22.0: 927297
    0.23.0: 927353
    0.23.1: 927862
    0.24.0: 927316

Show cookbook version data

To show the details for a cookbook version, run a command similar to:

knife supermarket show mysql 8.5.1

where mysql is the cookbook and 8.5.1 is the cookbook version. This will return something similar to:

average_rating:
cookbook:        https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/mysql
file:            https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/mysql/versions/8.5.1/download
license:         Apache-2.0
published_at:    2017-08-23T19:01:28Z
quality_metrics:
  failed: false
  feedback: passed the No Binaries metric. Contains no obvious binaries.
  name:   No Binaries

  failed: false
  feedback: mysql passed the publish metric
  name:   Publish

  failed: false
  feedback: mysql supports at least one platform.
  name:   Supported Platforms

  failed: false
  feedback: passed the Collaborators Metric with 2 collaborators.
  name:   Collaborator Number

  failed: false
  feedback:
  Run with Foodcritic Version 14.0.0 with tags metadata,correctness ~FC031 ~FC045 and failure tags any
  name:   Foodcritic

  failed: false
  feedback: passed the CONTRIBUTING.md file metric.
  name:   Contributing File

  failed: false
  feedback: passed the version tag metric.
  name:   Version Tag

  failed: false
  feedback: passed the TESTING.md file metric.
  name:   Testing File
supports:
  amazon:     >= 0.0.0
  centos:     >= 6.0
  debian:     >= 7.0
  fedora:     >= 0.0.0
  opensuseleap: >= 0.0.0
  oracle:     >= 6.0
  redhat:     >= 6.0
  scientific: >= 6.0
  suse:       >= 12.0
  ubuntu:     >= 12.04
tarball_file_size: 23763
version:         8.5.1

unshare

Use the unshare argument to stop the sharing of a cookbook located at Chef Supermarket. Only the maintainer of a cookbook may perform this action.

Note

Unsharing a cookbook will break a cookbook that has set a dependency on that cookbook or cookbook version.

Syntax

This argument has the following syntax:

knife supermarket unshare COOKBOOK_NAME/versions/VERSION (options)

Options

This argument has the following options:

-m, --supermarket-site

The URL at which the Chef Supermarket is located. Default value: https://supermarket.chef.io.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

Unshare a cookbook

To unshare a cookbook named my_apache2_cookbook, enter:

knife supermarket unshare "my_apache2_cookbook" "Web Servers"

Unshare a cookbook version

To unshare cookbook version 0.10.0 for the my_apache2_cookbook cookbook, enter:

knife supermarket unshare "my_apache2_cookbook/versions/0.10.0"
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