openssl_rsa_public_key resource¶

Use the openssl_rsa_public_key resource to generate RSA public key files for a given RSA private key.

New in Chef Client 14.0.

Syntax¶

The openssl_rsa_public_key resource has the following syntax:

openssl_rsa_public_key 'name' do
  group                    String
  mode                     Integer, String # default value: 0640
  owner                    String
  path                     String # default value: 'name' unless specified
  private_key_content      String
  private_key_pass         String
  private_key_path         String
  action                   Symbol # defaults to :create if not specified
end

where:

openssl_rsa_public_key is the resource.
name is the name given to the resource block.
action identifies which steps the chef-client will take to bring the node into the desired state.
group, mode, owner, path, private_key_content, private_key_pass, and private_key_path are the properties available to this resource.

Actions¶

The openssl_rsa_public_key resource has the following actions:

:create: Default. Create the RSA public key.
:nothing: Define this resource block to do nothing until notified by another resource to take action. When this resource is notified, this resource block is either run immediately or it is queued up to be run at the end of the Chef Client run.

Properties¶

The openssl_rsa_public_key resource has the following properties:

group

Ruby Type: String

The group ownership applied to all files created by the resource.

mode

Ruby Type: Integer, String | Default Value: 0640

The permission mode applied to all files created by the resource.

notifies

Ruby Type: Symbol, ‘Chef::Resource[String]’

A resource may notify another resource to take action when its state changes. Specify a 'resource[name]', the :action that resource should take, and then the :timer for that action. A resource may notify more than one resource; use a notifies statement for each resource to be notified.

A timer specifies the point during the Chef Client run at which a notification is run. The following timers are available:

:before: Specifies that the action on a notified resource should be run before processing the resource block in which the notification is located.
:delayed: Default. Specifies that a notification should be queued up, and then executed at the end of the Chef Client run.
:immediate, :immediately: Specifies that a notification should be run immediately, per resource notified.

The syntax for notifies is:

notifies :action, 'resource[name]', :timer

owner

Ruby Type: String

The owner applied to all files created by the resource.

path

Ruby Type: String

The path to the public key file, if it differs from the resource name.

private_key_content

Ruby Type: String

The content of the private key, including new lines. This property is used in place of private_key_path in instances where you want to avoid having to first write the private key to disk.

private_key_pass

Ruby Type: String

The passphrase of the provided private key.

private_key_path

Ruby Type: String

The path to the private key file.

subscribes

Ruby Type: Symbol, ‘Chef::Resource[String]’

A resource may listen to another resource, and then take action if the state of the resource being listened to changes. Specify a 'resource[name]', the :action to be taken, and then the :timer for that action.

Note that subscribes does not apply the specified action to the resource that it listens to - for example:

file '/etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt' do
   mode '0600'
   owner 'root'
end

service 'nginx' do
   subscribes :reload, 'file[/etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt]', :immediately
end

In this case the subscribes property reloads the nginx service whenever its certificate file, located under /etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt, is updated. subscribes does not make any changes to the certificate file itself, it merely listens for a change to the file, and executes the :reload action for its resource (in this example nginx) when a change is detected.

A timer specifies the point during the Chef Client run at which a notification is run. The following timers are available:

:before: Specifies that the action on a notified resource should be run before processing the resource block in which the notification is located.
:delayed: Default. Specifies that a notification should be queued up, and then executed at the end of the Chef Client run.
:immediate, :immediately: Specifies that a notification should be run immediately, per resource notified.

The syntax for subscribes is:

subscribes :action, 'resource[name]', :timer

Examples¶

Create a public key from a private key file

openssl_rsa_public_key '/etc/example/key.pub' do
  private_key_path '/etc/example/key.pem'
end

Create a public key from a private key, without writing the private key to disk

You can provide the private key content as a string to the openssl_rsa_public_key resource. In this example we just pass a string, but this content could be loaded from an encrypted data bag or other secure storage.

openssl_rsa_public_key '/etc/example/key.pub' do
  private_key_content 'KEY_CONTENT_HERE_AS_A_STRING'
end