Sometimes, you may want to peek into the files stored on your Chef server. You might not be sure about an implementation detail of the specific cookbook version 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.
Install the
iptables
community cookbook by executing the following command:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ knife cookbook site install iptables Installing iptables to /Users/mma/work/chef-repo/cookbooks ...TRUNCATED OUTPUT...
Upload the
iptables
cookbook on your Chef server by executing the following command:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ knife cookbook upload iptables --include-dependencies Uploading iptables [3.0.0] Uploading compat_resource [12.14.7] Uploaded 2 cookbooks.