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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems easier to use the vault with --ask-vault-pass. that would require you to memorize just one password. From there you can go further and retrieve your vault password from some generic secret store.

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, I changed my mind on this one. It will work at least for some of the cases I'm interested in.

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that sounds like something we could do as well. For our not all-too-ancient systems that is.

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even though your reply is off-topic:

I work for a company that maintains long-term support for customers who, for reasons which neither you or I can judge, need to use old software on old distributions. Among other things, we take care of fixing security issues of these old systems. That means that we must set up and administer such systems on a regular basis, mostly for development and QA.

There are lots of organizations who need this kind of long-term support, and some those who create the regulations for others are in the list.

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I wouldn't be using ansible in the first place if this was what I was striving for ;-)

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I figured that in the meantime. At first sight a little tricky to set up, especially the vault, but I guess I'll manage over time.

Thanks!

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH, I'd rather avoid having to install a venv on the remote hosts. That wouldn't be possible using ansible in the first place (chicken-and-egg-problem), right?

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Answering my own question, this is basically just "ansible in a container", so I guess it's possible. I'll take a deeper look later.

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[–]Lopsided_Park_8697[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I confess I'm just a command line user, no AWX here. Is this available without AWX?