Chef builtin search method change - ruby

Question

I use the AWS-ApplyChefRecipes document in SSM to run Chef cookbooks against my instances and manage the users, SSH keys, and sudo permissions for each instance based on tags. AWS on October 7 appear to have upgraded their Chef client implementation from version 14.14.29 to version 14.15.6. This update introduced breaking changes and I have not been able to get this resolved.
This recipe uses Ohai to get the tags from the instance, put them into an array, and then loop through each tag, search for the user JSON files inside the directory data_bags/<tag>/<user>.json it then goes through each of the groups listed and will either create/update a user, remove a user, or lock a user based on the information in the <user>.json file. The code below was working until October 7.
print "\n"
print node['ec2']['tags']['chef-users']
print "\n"
instanceTag = node['ec2']['tags']['chef-users']
tagArray = instanceTag.split(" ")
print "tagArray = "
print tagArray
print "\n"
for tag in tagArray do
print "tag = "
print tag
print "\n"
userList = search(tag, '*:*')
users_manage "sudonopw" do
print "entering users_manage sudonopw\n"
users userList
action [:remove, :create, :lock]
end
users_manage "users" do
print "entering users_manage users\n"
users userList
action [:remove, :create, :lock]
end
users_manage "admin" do
print "entering users_manage admin\n"
users userList
action [:remove, :create, :lock]
end
end rescue NoMethodError
print "Users ended, starting sudo\n"
sudo "sudonopw" do
group "sudonopw"
nopasswd true
end
sudo "admin" do
group "admin"
end
I have been troubleshooting this for several days now and have narrowed it down to this line:
userList = search(tag, '*:*')
This was previously returning the array of user JSON, however, after implementing some error checking:
begin
print "getting userList\n"
userList = search(tag, '*:*')
rescue => exception
print "something happened here\n"
print exception.message
print "\n"
else
print "userlist = "
print userList
print "\n"
ensure
print "done getting userList\n"
end
I now get the following output indicating that the search is not returning results any longer.
tag = admin
getting userList
something happened here
404 "Not Found"
done getting userList
Looking through the commits, I have not seen anything that should break my implementation.
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/bc7687e56763cedbd010cfd566aa2fc0c53bb194/lib/chef/search/query.rb