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Ansible Quick Start Guide
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Ansible Quick Start Guide

by Mohamed Alibi
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Ansible Vault

To be able to explore the features of Ansible Vault, we need to make sure we have created at least one encrypted file to store our variables in. For this, we need to use the ansible-vault tool as follows:

ansible-vault create /home/admin/Vault/vault.yml

A password entry prompt will appear, to ask for the password for the newly created Vault file. After typing in the password and confirming it, a new Vault file will be created in the specified location. A default text editor will open for us so that we can fill in the vault file.

Ansible Vault will look for the EDITOR environment variable to check which system default text editor is to be used when opening vault files. To use a specific text editor, we need to change the ...
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ISBN: 9781789532937