Knife::Tagbatch

Tagbatch is a plugin for the Chef Knife tool (https://docs.chef.io/knife.html). It adds search functionality to knife tag and allows the execution of multiple tag additions or removals in one statement. There is a flag for logging and dry-run execution.

Installation

Gem installation: gem install knife-tagbatch

Manual installation: Clone https://github.com/nkaravias/knife-tagbatch.git Create ~/.chef/knife/plugins Copy lib/chef/knife/tagbatch.rb to plugins

Usage

knife tag batch | -l | -d

Allowed operations are add | remove for creating and removing Chef tags

e.g Add the 'webserver' tag to all nodes that have the web-server role on environment x. knife tag add webserver 'role:web-server AND chef_environment=x'

Optional arguments:

-l (Logging): Knife will write the output of the tag operation per node on tagBatch.log in the current working directory -d (dry run): Knife will execute the operation but will not save the results (tag creation / removal) on the node

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/nkaravias/knife-tagbatch/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request