Summary

knife-inspect is a knife plugin that inspects your chef repo as it compares to what is on your chef server. You can inspect your entire repo, or individual components.

Usage

$ gem install knife-inspect
$ cd [chef repo]

Knife Commands

knife inspect

knife cookbook inspect
knife cookbook inspect [COOKBOOK]

knife data bag inspect
knife data bag inspect [BAG]
knife data bag inspect [BAG] [ITEM]

knife environment inspect
knife environment inspect [ENVIRONMENT]

knife role inspect
knife role inspect [ROLE]

What it does

So far it checks if...

• your cookbooks are in sync
• you have uncommitted changes in a cookbook (assuming your cookbooks are in their own git repos)
• you have commits in a cookbook that haven't been pushed to your remote (assuming your cookbooks are in their own git repos)
• your data bags are in sync
• your data bag items are in sync
• your environments are in sync
• your roles are in sync