The pull request for the docs has been merged already. The relevant doc
page is here: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html

Just search for 'vault' in that page. It doesn't have info this thread
doesn't though...

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just came across this after puzzling over how best to use ansible-vault
> to manage sensitive credentials in group vars, without encrypting
> everything, and I couldn't find the pull request for this when looking
> through the github issues for
>
> Would someone share a link to it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
> On Friday, 23 May 2014 15:36:18 UTC+2, Hagai Kariti wrote:
>>
>> Yeah that's me :-)
>> On May 23, 2014 3:19 PM, "Michael DeHaan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Docs are open source and there's already an open pull request for that
>>> in the docs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Hagai Kariti <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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