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Ansible notes

Using ansible 2.10.7.

General tips

Generating a new vault

Ansible guide: vault

As simple as: 

$ ansible-vault encrypt_string

If you don't want to type vault password, you may pass the --vault-password-file filepath flag, or use the ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE environment variable: 

$ export ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE=filepath
$ echo -n password | ansible-vault encrypt_string

Debugging a variable

Just define a task like this: 

- debug: var=variable_name

Running a playbook in Dry Run mode

Just append the -C flag: 

$ ansible-playbook -C ...