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Decrypt/Encrypt with Ansible vault

Pre-requisites

Ensure that ansible has been installed

ansible --version

If ansible has not been installed, go ahead and install it:

pip install ansible

Encryption

ansible-vault encrypt --vault-password-file=<vault-password-file> <input-file>

For example,

ansible-vault encrypt --vault-password-file=vaultkey.txt myfile.txt

Decryption

ansible-vault decrypt --vault-password-file=<vault-password-file> <input-file>

For example,

# Decrypt the file, using the input file as the output destination
ansible-vault decrypt --vault-password-file=vaultkey.txt encoded-file.txt

# OR

# Decrypt the file, dumping the out to standard out
cat encoded-file.txt | ansible-vault decrypt --vault-password-file=vaultkey.txt
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