Using Ansible Vault Effectively

 Posted on 2015-10-17  |  4 minutes  |  703 words  |  Chris Short

Ansible is a great orchestration tool. The low barrier to entry and simplicity of Ansible are why so many people that start using it love it. But there is one feature in Ansible that probably should be used more often. That feature is Ansible Vault. Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again. Your subscription has been successful. Subscribe to DevOps'ish! [Read More]
ansible  ansible-vault  security 

Grep Multiple Ansible Vault Files

 Posted on 2015-09-22  |  1 minutes  |  53 words  |  Chris Short

Here’s a handy one-liner to grep multiple Ansible Vault files (like group_vars). All you need is an Ansible Vault password file (outside of your configuration repo, please) and a little bash.

ls -1 | while read N ; do echo -n $N: ; ansible-vault --vault-password-file ~/.ansible_vault view $N | grep <STRING> ; done
ansible  ansible-vault  grep