Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
We covered data bags in this chapter. Data bags are a powerful feature of Chef Server that let
you store global information that can be shared among nodes. We also presented an overview
of how data bag contents can be secured with encrypted data bags. Unfortunately, because
encrypted data bags use symmetric key encryption, there is no way to distribute the shared
keys to nodes that need to encrypt the data. We showed how
chef-vault
helps address this
key distribution issue.
In the next chapter we'll cover roles. Roles are a great way to capture patterns that exist
across nodes belonging to a single job function.
