Mastering Chef

Ridley

Ridley is a Chef API client written in Ruby, which can be used to perform all the operations we looked at earlier, in a very elegant way.

Ridley is available as a gem and can be installed using the following command:

gem install ridley

Before we can use Ridley in our application, we need to require the library. This can be done using the standard Ruby require:

require 'ridley'

Once the library has been required, we just need to create our ridley client and use it to perform all the actions:

ridley = Ridley.new(
  server_url: "CHEF_SERVER_URL",
  client_name: "CLIENT_NAME",
  client_key: "PATH_TO_CLIENT_KEY"
)

You can also provide encrypted_data_bag_secret as a key, which can be used to provide a secret that can be used to decrypt the encrypted data ...