Chef user community cookbook example https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/user

gistfile1.txt

user_account 'clemlar' do
  action :create
  username 'clemlar'
  password '*'
  comment 'Platform Engineer, clemlar@domain.com'
  uid 2000
  gid 2000
  create_group false
  ssh_keygen false
  ssh_keys [
    'ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXXXX'
  ]
end