mbombar/ansible

My ansible playbook and roles

Ansible

This repository contains my personal ansible roles and playbooks.

Nice git trick

You can use the textconv attribute for git diff to provide a nice display of diff and blame for your vault files. In order to do that, you will need your vault password in plaintext on your computer (Don't forget to put it in your gitignore !) and put the filename in the variable vault_password_file in your ansible.cfg. Here, it is in the file .vault_password.

Then, edit your local git configuration to add a new attribute in the diff section:

[diff "ansible-vault"]
    textconv = ansible-vault view

You may do that by using the following command

git config diff.ansible-vault.textconv "ansible-vault view"

Here, I use the name ansible-vault for this new attribute, but you can of course give whatever name you like. Then, create a file .gitattibutse and put the following line:

*vault.yml diff=ansible-vault`

The syntax for .gitattributes is

pattern attr1 attr2 ...

where pattern can be a regular expression. Here, it tells git that for any file of the form *vault.yml* it should use the command specified in the ansible-vault attribute of the diff section to make a diff. Namely, the command ansible-vault view.

You may learn more about .gitattributes on the git documentation.