[chef] Re: encrypting data bags on the chef server using a gem like Ridley

[Tyler Ball < >]

All of the encryption and decryption is performed on the client side so I 
don’t know if Ridley would be able to perform this without wrapping 
Knife/Chef.  And unfortunately, thats the best tool I know of now to perform 
encrypted data bag operations.

It can also be done in a cookbook, but that is not an API either (in the 
sense that you can include it in another gem and call `data_bag.get(“name”, 
secret)`).

-T

> On Dec 10, 2014, at 6:50 AM, 
> 
 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to find a way to encrypt databags on a Chef Server through an API
> call.
> 
> I've been using the Ridley ruby gem and that has been sufficient for most 
> of my
> needs but I need to encrypt data bags through the chef api but can't figure 
> out
> a way of doing this. ( i want to avoid using the knife tool if possible).
> 
> If anyone has used the Ridley gem to do this, can you please tell me the
> command to do so? Or if you know of another way of encrypting data bags 
> through
> the api, then please tell me.
> 
> I'm a new user to Chef.
> 
> Many thanks