hiera-eyaml | A backend for Hiera that provides per-value asymmetric encryption of sensitive data | Configuration Management library

hiera-eyaml is a Ruby library typically used in Devops, Configuration Management applications. hiera-eyaml has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub, GitLab.

[Gem Downloads] hiera-eyaml is a backend for Hiera that provides per-value encryption of sensitive data within yaml files to be used by Puppet. A few people found that [hiera-gpg] just wasn’t cutting it for all use cases, one of the best expressed frustrations was [written back in June 2013] So [Tom created an initial version] and this was refined into an elegant solution over the following months. The Hiera eyaml backend uses yaml formatted files with the .eyaml extension. The encrypted strings are prefixed with the encryption method, wrapped with ENC[] and placed in an eyaml file. You can mix your plain values in as well or separate them into different files. Encrypted values can occur within arrays, hashes, nested arrays and nested hashes. To edit this you can use the command eyaml edit important.eyaml which will decrypt the file, fire up an editor with the decrypted values and re-encrypt any edited values when you exit the editor. This tool makes editing your encrypted files as simple as clear text files.