Why doesn't "knife upload roles" upload any roles?

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I followed the OpsCode quickstart guide and things went fairly smoothly, but now I'm running into issues experimenting with roles. I have a "starter" role in my repo that was provided by OpsCode. When I follow the first official documentation I could find and run the following from the top of my chef repo:

knife upload roles

it simply returns and nothing happens. I get no role (new or updated) on my chef server. The following line does work for creation and updating:

knife role from file .\roles\starter.rb

but I find it overly cumbersome and I would prefer something that just pushes my entire repo up to the server (or at least all of the roles) to make me more confident that everything is up to date.

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '13 at 10:15

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Yeah, in this case Chef is a little bit inconsistent. I use the next 3 lines to push by whole repo to chef-server (of course after the tests have passed):

knife cookbook upload --all
knife role from file roles/*.rb
knife data bag from file --all

answered Aug 16 '13 at 10:15

Draco Ater

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I'm sorry you havent' answered a question, why `knife upload` doesn't work? official description should do what it says. For me this is extremely comfortable. – holms Nov 18 '13 at 19:14
you can also do `rake install` – benathon Feb 03 '14 at 19:28
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For those of us that keep roles as JSON files: `knife role from file roles/*.json` – David J. Mar 29 '14 at 04:58

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '14 at 09:47

knife upload is based on the previous knife-essentials gem (now merged in chef under the name chef_fs).

https://github.com/opscode/chef/issues/1641 (and https://github.com/jkeiser/knife-essentials/issues/67) describe the issue: knife upload only support .json files for roles.

That's why your command knife upload does not output anything.

If you want to use knife upload, you have to convert all roles to json first (https://gist.github.com/red56/834890 for an example)

Hopefully this will be resolved soon in the ChefDK version of knife. — mmell, Jan 23 '15 at 19:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 06:03

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Suggested solution from Draco, didn't work for me to upload the data_bags. Here is what I did.

knife cookbook upload --all
knife role from file roles/*.rb
knife upload data_bags/

answered Mar 22 '17 at 06:03

Starx

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Why doesn't "knife upload roles" upload any roles?

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