How to change vault password in Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created one vault in Ansible. Now I want to change the password of this vault. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use rekey keyword in your ansible-vault command. It allows us to reset the password of a vault. To reset the password of any vault, you can use the below-given command.

$ ansible-vault rekey var.yml
Vault password:
New Vault password:
Confirm New Vault password:
Rekey successful