How do i create a chef data bag?

[blackrhino]

knife data bag man page: http://bit.ly/2ps8xjK

Data bags are global variables that can be used in recipes.

This creates a data bag called passwords, with the item id of samba, this opens up an editor to add your variables

$ knife data bag create passwords samba
Created data_bag[passwords]
Created data_bag_item[samba]

item id is a group of variables.

Data bags can be encrypted and this one contains sensitive information it should be encrypted, as seen in another article.