A plugin for Chef::Knife which displays the roles that are included recursively within a role and optionally displays all the roles that include it.
Supply a role name to get a dump of its hierarchy, pass -i for the roles that also include it
% knife crawl VMDevStack -i ✹
VMDevStack child hierarchy:
* VMDevStack
* SharedDevStack
VMDevStack is included in the following roles:
* VMBase
Copy the knife-crawl script from lib/chef/knife/crawl.rb to your ~/.chef/plugins/knife directory.
knife-crawl is available on rubygems.org - if you have that source in your gemrc, you can simply use:
gem install knife-crawl