How do I search for a vault item from inside a recipe?

Question

I have a vault item that looks like this:

{
  "id": "myvaultitem",
  "username": "myuser",
  "password": "mypass"
}

How can I grab a vault in a recipe that matches username:myuser? Could I do a wildcard search to load all vaults matching id:my*?

Of course I can search with knife, but I want to do this via a recipe.

Answer 1

You access vault items via the chef_vault_item() API. You can't search values like that as they are encrypted server side.