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Useful knife commands for a local Chef repo

Generate Chef secret

openssl rand -base64 512 | tr -d '\r\n' > /path/to/secret

Create encrypted data bag

export EDITOR=nano; knife data bag create BAG_NAME ITEM_NAME -z --secret-file /path/to/chef_secret

Will create ./data_bags/BAG_NAME/ITEM_NAME.json.

Edit encrypted data bag

export EDITOR=nano; knife data bag edit BAG_NAME ITEM_NAME -z --secret-file /path/to/chef_secret

Install or update a cookbook from the Supermarket

https://supermarket.chef.io/ https://docs.chef.io/knife_cookbook_site.html

knife cookbook site install COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)
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