Decrypt an Ansible Vault — ansible vault

How to decrypt an Ansible vault file using the ansible-vault command line utility.

How to decrypt an Ansible Vault?

From an encrypted file to plaintext using the correct password.

I will show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

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

ansible-vault

• Included in Ansible installation
• Ansible Vault
• command line

The `ansible-vault` command is included in every Ansible installation for the most modern operating system.

It is a command line tool so interact with that using your terminal.

Using the `ansible-vault` command, you could perform any Ansible vault operation: encryption, decryption, change of password, etc.

Links

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

demo

I will show you how to decrypt an Ansible Vault using the ansible-vault command line…