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chef-secrets (13) Versions 0.6.3

Installs/Configures chef-vault with helpers

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Berkshelf
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cookbook 'chef-secrets', '= 0.6.3', :supermarket
cookbook 'chef-secrets', '= 0.6.3'
knife supermarket install chef-secrets
knife supermarket download chef-secrets
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Quality 14%

chef-secrets cookbook

This cookbook aims to ease chef-vault interaction by providing additional helpers, and testing the functionality on a Linux and Windows box.

More info about chef-vault: https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/chef-vault

Usage pattern (with wrapper cookbooks)

Let us say you are using a cookbook that requires you to set a password in an attribute. This attribute is usually set in a wrapper cookbook which includes the original cookbook. By including this cookbook as well, you can set the attribute in the wrapper cookbook's attribute file like this:
ruby
secret['cookbook']['password'] = chef_vault_item_or_default('vault', 'item')

This will set the attribute default['cookbook']['password'] to the item from the vault. It will also set the attribute to SECRET at the end of the Chef run, therefore ensuring that the Chef Server will not contain the password in plaintext. If the item in the vault does not exist it will fail.

If you would like to default to a value in a testing environment, you can do:
```ruby
fallback = Mash.new({ key: 'fallback' }) if ENV['TEST_KITCHEN'] || defined?(ChefSpec) || Chef::Config[:local_mode]

secret['cookbook']['password'] = chef_vault_item_or_default('vault', 'item', fallback)

use it anywhere with node['cookbook']['password']['key']


Note that a chef-vault item will always be a hash, so it may be better to set the fallback to a similar hash as well.

## Caching

Accessing many secrets on high latency links can be very long.
`chef_vault_item_or_default` helper is able to cache for a few hours decrypted value on chef cache.

Call it with `chef_vault_item_or_default('vault', 'item', fallback, true)`.

Cached entry has a TTL set randomly between 1 and 12 hours. This is to avoid refreshing all secrets at the same time (defeating the purpose of having caching).


## Secret attributes

### Overview

Secret attributes are node attributes that are available only during the Chef run, but set to `SECRET` when saved and uploaded to the Chef Server. These attributes are actually default node attributes set through a helper method, so you may access them as you would access any default node attribute.

### Usage
Set a secret in cookbook attributes:
```ruby
secret['cookbook']['password'] = 'SuperSecretPassword'

Read it anywhere like a default node attribute:
ruby
Chef::Log.info("This is my password: #{node['cookbook']['password']}")

Note: Please don't accidentally save your secrets in the Chef log file :)

Call stack

When called with this syntax
ruby
secret['cookbook']['password'] = 'SuperSecretPassword'

actually calls
ruby
chef_secret_attribute_set(['cookbook', 'password'], 'SuperSecretPassword')

which in turn sets
ruby
default['cookbook']['password'] = 'SuperSecretPassword'

and will be cleared at the end by
ruby
chef_secret_attribute_clear(['cookbook', 'password'])

which sets
ruby
default['cookbook']['password'] = 'SECRET'

Additional chef-vault helpers

chef_vault_item_or_default

Get an item from the vault, or default to value if if the vault or item does not exist. If the default value is not specified, it will fail the Chef run.
ruby
chef_vault_item_or_default('vault', 'item', 'default')

chef_vault_item_is_vault?

Return true if item is a vault item. Note that unlike ChefVault::Item.vault?, this method returns false if the data bag does not exist.
ruby
chef_vault_item_is_vault?('vault', 'item')

Dependent cookbooks

chef-vault ~> 2.1

Contingent cookbooks

There are no cookbooks that are contingent upon this one.

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FC066: Ensure chef_version is set in metadata: chef-secrets/metadata.rb:1
FC067: Ensure at least one platform supported in metadata: chef-secrets/metadata.rb:1
Run with Foodcritic Version 11.4.0 with tags metadata,correctness ~FC031 ~FC045 and failure tags any

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