Now we have the basics of our LAMP infrastructure up and running, let's secure it a little by creating an htaccess file with a few authorized users in it. To achieve this, we could use different techniques, but the data bag feature in Chef is pretty convenient for our objective. A data bag is simply data in a JSON file stored on the Chef server, that can be searched from the cookbooks. It's especially useful for storing data that need to be accessed globally from a central point (such as users, service credentials, version numbers, URLs, even feature flags, and other similar features depending on your usage).