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Bill Ke
Bill Ke

Reputation: 21

ansible ad-hoc command to check variable that's in ansible vault

I'm trying to check what value Ansible pulls for the variable datadog_agent_api_key that is currently stored in Ansible Vault file inventory/common/vault-common-vars.yml.

ansible myhost.domain.com -i inventory/hosts.ini --connection=local -m debug -a var=datadog_agent_api_key --include_vars=inventory/common/vault-common-vars.yml

When I run it, I am getting the error

ansible: error: unrecognized arguments: --include_vars=inventory/common/vault-common-vars.yml

If the variable is not in Ansible Vault, it pulls the value correctly.

ansible myhost.domain.com -i inventory/hosts.ini --connection=local -m debug -a var=datadog_agent_system_probe_enabled

myhost.domain.com | SUCCESS => {
    "datadog_agent_system_probe_enabled": true

What's the proper options to use or is there a different way to do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 598

Answers (1)

Frenchy
Frenchy

Reputation: 17017

include_vars is a module not an option.

if you want to see the content of a vault file use:

ansible-vault view  nameoffile --ask-vault-pass

the option --ask-vault-pass -> a prompt to ask the password of encrypted file

if you want to launch from a command line use:

ansible localhost -m include_vars -a file=inventory/common/vault-common-vars.yml --ask-vault-pass

Upvotes: 1

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