Questions tagged [ansible-vault]

For questions about Ansible Vault - an Ansible feature that allows keeping sensitive data in encrypted files rather than in plain text in various configuration files.

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Why could the encrypted Ansible files not be decrypted although the vault password file has been set?

Follow-up to this Q&A. According to this and this documentation it should be possible to define a default vault password file by specifying vault_password_file = ~/.vault_pass.txt in one of the following files: * ANSIBLE_CONFIG (an environment…
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What are best practices of structuring encrypting variables since Ansible 2.3.0?

This document indicates that since Ansible 2.3 it should be possible to encrypt certain vars using a !vault | prefix instead of putting a variable and keys in a vault file and encrypt it completely. notsecret: myvalue mysecret: !vault | …
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