search_environment.md

When searching, an environment is an attribute. This allows search results to be limited to a specified environment by using Boolean operators and extra search terms. For example, to use knife to search for all of the servers running CentOS in an environment named "QA", enter the following:

knife search node "chef_environment:QA AND platform:centos"

Or, to include the same search in a recipe, use a code block similar to:

qa_nodes = search(:node, 'chef_environment:QA')
qa_nodes.each do |qa_node|
    # Do useful work specific to qa nodes only
end