Ansible Vault allows you to encrypt sensitive data such as passwords, certificates, and keys, so that they can be stored safely in version control. To set a sudo password for Ansible Vault, you need to use the ansible-vault command as follows:
- Create an encrypted file:
ansible-vault create secret.yml
- Enter a password for the vault.
- Enter the sensitive data you want to encrypt in the file and save it.
- To use the password, you need to pass it to the playbook using
--vault-password-fileoption or using theANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILEenvironment variable. For example:
ansible-playbook --vault-password-file=.vault_pass.txt myplaybook.yml
It’s important to note that the password file should be kept secure and should not be stored in a public place like a version control system.