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rubychef-infrachef-recipe
red888
red888

Reputation: 31610

How do I use vault items in templates?

I'm learning chef.

I have this recipe:

chef_gem 'chef-vault' do
  compile_time true if respond_to?(:compile_time)
end

require 'chef-vault'

vault = ChefVault::Item.load("vault01", "vaultitem1")

log 'DEBUG' do
  message vault['myuser']
  level :info
end

directory 'c:/blah'

template 'c:/blah/template.txt' do
  source 'template.txt.erb'
end

You can see I'm getting the value out of the vault in the recipe.

How should I insert these values into my template file?

Is there a way I can get the vault vaules from inside of my template.txt.erb?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 345

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54251

Use the variables property. You pass it a hash and then those keys are available as variables in your template:

template 'c:/blah/template.txt' do
  source 'template.txt.erb'
  variables vault: ChefVault::Item.load("vault01", "vaultitem1")
end

# and then in the template
<%= @vault['foo'] %>

Also check out the chef-vault cookbook (distinct from the chef-vault gem) which has a nice chef_vault_item() helper to make testing easier.

Upvotes: 1

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