okchef

import chef

client = chef.ChefClient('https://api.opscode.com')
# not to be confused with chef-client, the agent :)
client.authenticate('chef-user', '~/chef-user.pem')
response = client.get('/users/chef-user')
response.json()
...
{'display_name': 'chef-user',
 'email': 'chef-user@example.com',
 'first_name': 'Chef',
 'last_name': 'User',
 'middle_name': '',
 'public_key': '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIj...IDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n',
 'username': 'chef-user'}

Authentication & Authorization

okchef uses the auth handler from the requests-chef library at https://github.com/samstav/requests-chef

Install

If you see this error:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement cryptography

or this one:

error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

You need to install my fork of cryptography:

pip install git+https://github.com/samstav/cryptography.git@rsa-bypass-hash-on-signer

Or this way, if you used homebrew to install python and openssl:

env CRYPTOGRAPHY_OSX_NO_LINK_FLAGS=1 LDFLAGS="$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib/libssl.a $(brew --prefix openssl)/lib/libcrypto.a" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" pip install git+https://github.com/samstav/cryptography.git@rsa-bypass-hash-on-signer

Before installing okchef, see the current installation instructions for requests-chef: https://github.com/samstav/requests-chef#install

If you don't feel like reading those, you can just use the --process-dependency-links option:

$ pip install -U --process-dependency-links okchef

Preferably, you've read the install for requests-chef, so this will work:

# -U ensures you get the latest version
$ pip install -U okchef