The knife raw subcommand is used to send a REST request to an endpoint in the Chef server API.
Note
Review the list of common options available to this (and all) knife subcommands and plugins.
This subcommand has the following options:
The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:
View a client
To view information about a client:
knife raw /clients/<client_name>
View a node
To view information about a node:
knife raw /nodes/<node_name>
Delete a data bag
To delete a data bag, enter a command similar to:
$ knife raw -m DELETE /data/foo
to return something similar to:
{
"name":"foo",
"json_class":"Chef::DataBag",
"chef_type":"data_bag"
}