data bag location

[brucebolden]

I am attempting to run a provisioning recipe that has username as passwords stored in data bags. When I attempt to provision the server using my chef-provisioning-vsphere recipe I receive the following error.

HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found : Object not found: http://localhost:8889/data/user_password/svc_join [2016-10-22T15:23:46-04:00] ERROR: Failed to load data bag item: "user_password" "svc_join"
I have tried placing the data bag under ~/chef-repo/data_bags as well as the cookbook folder
~/chef-repo/chef-provisioning-vsphere/data_bags

Where does chef look for the location of the data bags when I use chef-zero ?