A different way of encrypting data is proposed through Chef Vault, and this does not require you to include the key somewhere in the code. The concept is elegant and simple: shared key encryption is done for each and every existing Chef node through their already existing client keys. This way, only the nodes allowed to access the data can decrypt it—each with their own private key—ensuring no clear-text shared keys are being sent, like with the classic encrypted data bag scheme.
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