Chef Masterclass: Data Bags

This month’s Progress Chef Masterclass is focusing on an essential tool for DevOps teams working in complex infrastructures: Progress® Chef® Data Bags. Whether you're maintaining deployments or managing configurations, Chef Data Bags offers a flexible and secure solution for centralized data management. 

Chef Data Bags streamline management across AWS, Azure or any external service. Whether you're managing AWS keys, integrating with Azure DevOps or automating secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, Chef Data Bags provide flexibility for more seamless integration into your existing ecosystem. 

You’ll discover how Chef Data Bags streamline your infrastructure management and explore practical examples of using Data Bags. Additional topics include how to: 

• Manage secrets and credentials for multi-cloud environments and hybrid setups.  
• Create, update and delete Data Bags using Knife, the Chef Workstation command-line tool.  
• Encrypt Data Bags to maintain information security and provide access to authorized recipes and nodes.