This cookbook is responsible for installing the chef-vault gem and
providing some helper methods to load encrypted data bags that are in
The Vault.
Chef Vault is a library by Nordstrom's infrastructure operations team that helps manage encrypted data bags.
This cookbook should work on any system/platform that is supported by Chef.
This cookbook provides a nice helper method for the Chef Recipe DSL so you can write:
chef_vault_item("secrets", "dbpassword")
Instead of:
ChefVault::Item.load("secrets", "dbpassword")
This has logic to allow for development and testing of recipes, see Attributes below.
node['chef-vault']['version']- Specify a version of the chef-vault gem if required. Default isnil, so the latest version will be installed.
The following attribute is special and not specifically related to this cookbook, but is used in the helper.
node['dev_mode']- If this is true,chef_vault_itemwill attempt to load the specified item as a regular Data Bag Item withChef::DataBagItem.load. This is intended to be used only for testing, and not as a fall back to avoid issues loading encrypted items.
Include the recipe before using the Chef Vault library in recipes.
include_recipe 'chef-vault'
secret_stuff = ChefVault::Item.load("secrets", "a_secret")
Or, use the helper library method:
secret_stuff = chef_vault_item("secrets", "a_secret")
If you need a specific version of the chef-vault RubyGem, then
specify it with the attribute, node['chef-vault']['version'].
This repository contains a CONTRIBUTING file that describes the
contribution process for Chef cookbooks.
- Author: Joshua Timberman joshua@getchef.com
- Copyright (c) 2013 Opscode, Inc. legal@opscode.com
- Copyright (c) 2014 Chef Software, Inc. legal@getchef.com
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