Ansible troubleshooting — Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found.

How to solve the error attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found when using an Ansible Vault to store sensitive password content.

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the attempt to decrypt but no vault secrets found error.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Link

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/vault.html

demo

Live demo of Ansible Vault in Playbook problem and fix.

Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found

The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the Ansible vault decryption error and how to solve it!

Every time we would like to use Ansible Vault to store our sensitive information (passwords, access keys, configuration, etc/) encrypted, we need to specify a password for the decryption of the file.