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chef-vault Cookbook

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.

Requirements

This cookbook should work on any system/platform that is supported by Chef.

Helper Method

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")

Attributes

  • node['chef-vault']['version'] - Specify a version of the chef-vault gem if required. Default is nil, so the latest version will be installed.

Usage

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'].

Contributing

This repository contains a CONTRIBUTING file that describes the contribution process for Opscode cookbooks.

License and Authors

License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.