Creating non interactive ansible vault

Question

Is it possible to create an ansible vault from inside ansible that has a non-interactive mode?

Answer 1

Hey @Jolly, 

You can use the --vault-password-file option for ansible-vault non-interactive vault file creation. The file passed in can be a text file containing the vault password, or it can be an executable script that retrieves and outputs the vault password.

You can call it like this:

ansible-vault --vault-password-file=vaultpass.txt encrypt sensitive_data.txt