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Upcoming Webcast: Knife Pro Tips

Seth Chisamore | Posted on

It’s time for another Opscode Webcast!

  • Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
  • Time: 1:45 PM Pacific
  • Presenter: Seth Chisamore (@schisamo)

This webcast will assume the audience has signed up for the Opscode Platform and followed the getting started guide.

Knife is Chef’s powerful command-line utility used for interacting directly with the Opscode Platform’s RESTful API. Join us as we take a tour of Knife’s major sub-commands and dive into some of it’s lesser known power-user commands. Some topics we’ll cover include:

  • An overview of all major Knife sub-commands
  • Knife’s support for provisioning and bootstrapping of cloud and non-cloud servers (bootstrap only)
  • Using Knife to download and track community cookbooks from cookbooks.opscode.com
  • Leveraging Knife to issue parallel commands across your entire infrastructure – including interactive and tmux modes
  • The power Ruby brings to Knife’s configuration file

Register Now!