Chef Solo get user input

Question

I don't know why I can't find anything on the interwebs about this.

I basically want to write a recipe that prompts a user for their github username/password, then posts to the github API to add an ssh key.

I'm sure I can prompt a user with normal ruby methods (ie gets) but this doesn't seem natural given all the utilities chef provides.

Can someone tell me a 'chef' way of prompting a user for input to store in vars for later use?

I'd like to first output some instructions for the user to read, then get the username, then password, I guess for safety reasons, the password should not be shown on the console as they type

Answer 1

I'd say chef is not made for such user input.

You might use ruby code that is executed during the compile phase of the chef run, but I'd suggest the following:

What about reading it from an environment variable?