Knife guard allows to update cookbooks, data bags, environments, and roles automatically when files are modified.

It differs from Guard::Chef in that it does not depend on activesupport and it uses knife directly instead of relying on some rake tasks being around.

Please be sure to have Guard installed before continuing.

Install the gem:

$ gem install guard-knife

Add it to your Gemfile

gem 'guard-knife'

Add guard definition to your Guardfile by running this command:

$ guard init knife

guard 'knife' do
  watch(%r{^cookbooks/.+$})
  watch(%r{^data_bags/.+$})
  watch(%r{^environments/.+$})
  watch(%r{^roles/.+$})
end

By default Guard::Knife uses your ~/.chef/knife.rb. To use a different configuration file, use the :config option:

guard 'knife', :config => '~/.chef/other_knife_config.rb' do
  # ...
end

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Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Please create a topic branch for every separate change you make.

Nikolay Sturm