knife-solve

knife-solve is a little knife plugin to see the chef-server version solver solution for a given set of cookbooks.

$ knife solve -E production apache2
Solving [apache2] in production environment
apache2 1.9.6
iptables 0.12.0
logrotate 1.5.0
pacman 1.1.1

As with all knife plugins, just install the gem:

gem install knife-solve

Or if you use ChefDK:

chef gem install knife-solve

To solve a simple list of cookbooks:

knife solve apache2 mysql

You can also solve a normal run list:

knife solve 'role[www]'

Or use an existing node's run list:

knife solve -n www01