How to display all or some attributes of a node on the screen in a chef cookbook?

Question

linux

Hello everyone,
if there is some resource in chef that allows you to print host data on the screen, for example using node? Interested in the version of ubuntu (16... 18) cookbook works on the cat!
Analog setup in Ansible
thanks,
Vadim

Answer 1

knife exec?

Answer 2

more likely
:

{
  "kernel": {
    "name": "Linux",
    "release": "3.13.0-165-generic",
    "version": "#215-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 16 11:46:47 UTC 2019",
    "machine": "x86_64",
    "processor": "x86_64",
    "os": "GNU/Linux",
    "modules": {
      "vboxsf": {
        "size": "43798",
        "refcount": "2",
        "version": "4.3.36_Ubuntu (interface 0x00010004)"
      },
      "nfsd": {
        "size": "284396",
        "refcount": "2"
      },
      "auth_rpcgss": {
        "size": "59309",
        "refcount": "1"
      },
...

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