Encrypt data bag from inside of ruby without relying on knife

Question

At the moment to encrypt a data bag, I have to do : system "knife data bag from file TemporaryEncrypting \"#{enc_file_path}\" --secret-file #{Secret_Key_Path}"

and that doesn't work because knife can't find a config file and I can't seem to get it read the one in C:\chef.

How do I do this from within ruby?

looking at https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/application/knife.rb it appears `knife` has a `-c` option to tell it which config file to use. — ptierno, Nov 17 '14 at 18:00
I've tried that already, it just keeps trying to overwrite the `knife.rb` file that's already there. — Thermatix, Nov 17 '14 at 18:07

Thermatix · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-12T10:05:45.600

I worked out how to encrypt inside of ruby, just use this code:

require 'chef/knife'
#require 'chef/encrypted_data_bag_item' #you need to do this in chef version 12, they've moved it out of knife and into it's own section
require 'json'

secret = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret Secret_Key_Path

to_encrypt = JSON.parse(json_to_encrypt)

encrypted_data = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.encrypt_data_bag_item to_encrypt, secret

Answer achieved with information from this answer, here is the code in question:

namespace 'databag' do
  desc 'Edit encrypted databag item.'
  task :edit, [:databag, :item, :secret_file] do |t, args|
    args.with_defaults :secret_file => "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret"
    secret = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret args.secret_file
    item_file = "data_bags/#{args.databag}/#{args.item}.json"
    tmp_item_file = "/tmp/#{args.databag}_#{args.item}.json"
    begin
      #decrypt data bag into tmp file
      raw_hash = Chef::JSONCompat.from_json IO.read item_file
      databag_item = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.new raw_hash, secret
      IO.write tmp_item_file, Chef::JSONCompat.to_json_pretty( databag_item.to_hash )
      #edit tmp file
      sh "#{ENV['EDITOR']} #{tmp_item_file}"
      #encrypt tmp file data bag into original file
      raw_hash = Chef::JSONCompat.from_json IO.read tmp_item_file
      databag_item = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.encrypt_data_bag_item raw_hash, secret
      IO.write item_file, Chef::JSONCompat.to_json_pretty( databag_item )
    ensure
      ::File.delete tmp_item_file #ensure tmp file deleted.
    end
  end
end

Encrypt data bag from inside of ruby without relying on knife

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