On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Using Vault in group_vars has the downside of losing version control on
> the vaulted file"
>
> This is not neccessarily the case.
>
> group_vars/ folders are also loaded if they live alongside the playbook,
> so that can be a good option.
>
> You could also keep the variables in a role vars/ directory and pull them
> in to hosts that need them.
>
> In fact, a role can contain nothing but vars, and that works too!
>
>
Yeah I know, but that's not helping my specific use case, as I need
different sensitive variables based on inventory, not role or playbook.
Serge's suggestion was what solved it for me - too bad this feature isn't
documented!


>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Hagai Kariti <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Whoa, dude. Didn't know that trick. Yeah that actually solves my case
>> pretty nicely. Thanks a bunch.
>>
>> On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 6:16:19 PM UTC+3, Serge van Ginderachter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 21 May 2014 16:53, Hagai Kariti <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's really the same idea as group_vars. For each group a host is a
>>>> member of, two files are included:
>>>> - The file under group_vars/, as usual
>>>> - The vaulted file under the vaulted group_vars dir
>>>>
>>>> This allows you to separate the sensitive and normal parts of your
>>>> group_vars, so that you won't lose version control on the normal parts.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ​OK, actually, you already can do something similar, what I do:
>>>
>>> for each group X I have a directory group_vars/X/
>>>
>>> every file in that dir will be loaded for group X
>>> then you van have a group_vars/X/secret.yml e.g. which is vaulted.​
>>>
>>> Would that work for you?
>>>
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