Ansible vault actually supports the 'view' command, since two days ago (version 1.8). There's also a pull request to update the docs on the website to reflect this.
- Ramon Op vrijdag 28 november 2014 14:42:04 UTC+1 schreef Jim McMahon: > > I want to view a file that has been encrypted with ansible-vault, but I > don't want to make any changes. The ansible-vault command doesn't have an > option to just *cat* the decrypted file. Here are the options available: > > ➜ defaults git:(master) ✗ ansible-vault --help > Usage: ansible-vault [*create|decrypt|edit|encrypt|rekey]* [--help] > [options] file_name > > Options: > -h, --help show this help message and exit > > See 'ansible-vault <command> --help' for more information on a specific > command. > > So I've been using ansible-vault edit command to view the file and then > quit the editor without saving when done viewing the contents. > Surprisingly, even though I quit out of the editor without saving, it > changes the file anyway. Why is this? When I do a git status I see the > file is modified and the SHA1 has been changed. See below for an example > where no changes were saved: > > ➜ defaults git:(master) openssl sha1 main.yml > > SHA1(main.yml)= 63acb6f65ae7d1ad34e047e80acd8857ebab5692 > > ➜ defaults git:(master) ansible-vault edit main.yml > > Vault password: > > ➜ defaults git:(master) ✗ openssl sha1 main.yml > > SHA1(main.yml)= 7c48df4f13402558c0e1ca691250a0e8be0bc548 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f89508df-444f-472f-b953-233a6955e426%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
