Turn off verbose_logging for single Chef recipes or resources

Question

I have a recipe which copies a secret_key to my node. Actually the file content is logged into my shell. I want to turn that off for this single recipe, because I don't want the file content to be saved into my shell history. I know that it's possible to completely deactivate the logging with the verbose_logging setting in client.rb.

verbose_logging: Set the log level. Options: true, nil, and false. When this is set to false, notifications about individual resources being processed are suppressed (and are output at the :info logging level). Setting this to false can be useful when a chef-client is run as a daemon. Default value: nil.

But is it possible to deactivate the logging only for a single recipe?

Answer 1

There is a common property called sensitive, which will

Ensure that sensitive resource data is not logged by the chef-client. Default value: false. This property only applies to the execute, file and template resources.

template "/etc/my.secret" do
  sensitive true
end