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Snapshot an Infra Server Organization Inventory

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Snapshot an Infra Server Organization Inventory

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Collect a full point-in-time inventory of a Chef Infra Server organization.

  1. List every node under management. This is the backbone of the snapshot and the collection most likely to have drifted since the last run.
  2. List the cookbooks published to the organization along with their available versions, establishing what the nodes are able to converge.
  3. List the roles defined for the organization, which is how run lists in the node snapshot resolve to real recipes.
  4. List the environments, capturing how the organization separates production, staging, and development cookbook version constraints.
  5. List the data bags themselves without reading their items, recording where configuration data lives while leaving encrypted contents untouched.
What you'll need to have ready
  • snapshotLabel: An optional label for the snapshot run (e.g. "2026-07-16-nightly").
For your developer

Arazzo workflow chef:snapshot-org-inventory, 5 operations: listNodes → listCookbooks → listRoles → listEnvironments → listDataBags. Specs on APIs.io.

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