Chef on Vagrant Box: Can't find encrypted data bag secret

Question

When provisioning a vagrant box with (hosted-)chef I get the following error:

No such file or directory - file not found \'/tmp/encrypted_data_bag_secret\'
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Answer 1

When provisioning a vagrant box, you have to provide a path to your data bags secret key, if you want to use encrypted data bags.

config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
  [...]
  chef.encrypted_data_bag_secret_key_path = '/etc/chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret'
  [...]
end