This version of Chef does not support encrypted data bag item format version 3
At $job, we use a version of chef-client which is woefully out of date. We’ll get around to fixing it, but until we do, I ran into a unique problem with encrypted data bags that I hadn’t seen documented anywhere on the internet. Hence this blog post. My version of knife is: knife --version Chef: 14.1.12 When I create an encrypted data bag, it uses version 3 of Chef’s data bag encryption. When I try to use that data bag with our ancient version of Chef, it results in: ...