Command Line Reference

chef-runner is a simple command-line tool that has a couple of options:

Usage: chef-runner [options] [--] [<recipe>...]

  -H, --host <name>            Name of host reachable over SSH
  -M, --machine <name>         Name or UUID of Vagrant virtual machine
  -K, --kitchen <name>         Name of Test Kitchen instance
  -L, --local                  Provision host system

  --ssh <option>               Add OpenSSH option as specified in ssh_config(5)
  --rsync <option>             Add Rsync option as listed in rsync(1)

  --resolver <name>            Name of cookbook dependency resolver

  -i, --install-chef <version> Install Chef (x.y.z, latest, true, false)
                               default: false

  -F, --format <format>        Chef output format (null, doc, minimal, min)
                               default: doc
  -l, --log_level <level>      Chef log level (debug, info, warn, error, fatal)
                               default: info
  -j, --json-attributes <file> Load attributes from a JSON file

  --sudo=false                 Do not run commands with sudo (enabled by default)
  --color=false                Disable colorized output (enabled by default)

  -h, --help                   Show help text
  --version                    Show program version