Encryption using vault

Question

I've been working with Ansible for a month now. I had a tiny doubt related to the vault. is it possible to encrypt the files using vault, transfer them to a remote server and then decrypt it?

Answer 1

Hey @Neha, unfortunately, that's not possible. You can't just encrypt files and transfer them. 

But what you can do is, store the encrypted content in a file, assign it to a variable and then use the lookup plugin to get these contents over a remote server. 

Example:

- copy: 
    content: "{{ lookup('file', 'files/nish/nush/secrets') }}" 
    dest: /remote/unencrypted/destination