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Ansible Playbook Essentials
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Ansible Playbook Essentials

by Gourav Shah
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
168 pages
3h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using the Ansible-vault

The following table lists all the subcommands that the Ansible-vault utility comes with:

Subcommand

Description

create

This creates a encrypted file from scratch using the editor. This needs the editor environment variable set before launching the command.

edit

This edits the existing encrypted file with an editor, without decrypting the contents.

encrypt

This encrypts an existing file with structured data.

decrypt

This decrypts the file. Use this with care and do not commit the decrypted file to version control.

rekey

This changes the key or password used to encrypt or decrypt.

Encrypting the data

Let's perform some operations using Ansible-vault. We will start by creating an encrypted file. To create ...

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