Knife

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Use knife to download cookbooks from site or to upload them to local server

1. Download starter kit as explained in Chef infrastructure setup#Install_Chef_server or configure knife as explained in Chef infrastructure setup#Configure_chef-server_and_knife_workstation_combination_using_command_line
2. To configure knife using starter kit just extract the downloded zip file in appropriate folder.
3. Download learn_chef_httpd cookbook using:

   knife cookbook site download learn_chef_httpd
   tar -zxvf learn_chef_httpd-0.1.0.tar.gz -C cookbooks
   rm learn_chef_httpd*.tar.gz

4. Upload downloaded cookbook to server using:

   knife cookbook upload learn_chef_httpd

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