Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

Centrally sharing data using a Chef data bag and Hiera with Puppet

Now we have the basics of our LAMP infrastructure up and running, let's secure it a little by creating an htaccess file with a few authorized users in it. To achieve this, we could use different techniques, but the data bag feature in Chef is pretty convenient for our objective. A data bag is simply data in a JSON file stored on the Chef server, that can be searched from the cookbooks. It's especially useful for storing data that need to be accessed globally from a central point (such as users, service credentials, version numbers, URLs, even feature flags, and other similar features depending on your usage).

Getting ready

To work through this recipe, you will need the following: ...