Inspecting files on your Chef server with knife

Sometimes, you may want to peek into the files stored on your Chef server. You might not be sure about an implementation detail of that specific cookbook version, which is currently installed on your Chef server, and need to look it up. Knife can help you out by letting you show various aspects of the files stored on your Chef server.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have the iptables cookbook installed locally and uploaded on your Chef server.

  1. Install the iptables community cookbook by executing the following command and code lines:
    mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ knife cookbook site install iptables

    Installing iptables to /Users/mma/work/chef-repo/cookbooks
...TRUNCATED OUTPUT...

    Tip

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