unvault¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version 2.12.

Synopsis¶

Retrieve your information from an encrypted Ansible Vault.

Parameters¶

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input string required		Vault string.
secret string required		Vault secret, the key that lets you open the vault.
vault_id string	Default: filter_default	Secret identifier, used internally to try to best match a secret when multiple are provided.

Examples¶

# simply decrypt my key from a vault
vars:
  mykey: "{{ myvaultedkey | unvault(passphrase) }} "

- name: save templated unvaulted data
  template: src=dump_template_data.j2 dest=/some/key/clear.txt
  vars:
    template_data: '{{ secretdata | unvault(vaultsecret) }}'

Return Values¶

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	string	The string that was contained in the vault.

Authors¶

Brian Coca (@bcoca)