[chef] Using libraries in attributes file to fetch values from a service.

[Tom Duckering < >]

Hi,

I'm in an environment where secrets (i.e. passwords) are stored encrypted in an external service.

I'd like to be able to pull those values in and have them used by Chef.

I can write some nasty code in my attributes file to do it but I'd have to place that code in each attributes file since I understand that libraries are not available to attributes files.

Is there a better or right way to share some code for fetching and decoding these attributes?

Or does anyone have any other bright ideas? Alas I'm not at liberty to use encrypted data bags or chef server so this is all via chef-solo.

Thanks

Tom