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Tell about ansible-vault in README.

Just encrypted all sensitive ansible files on my
laptop and could ping all hosts nevertheless.

Tell, how I did it.

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1host_vars
2
3This directory serves for per-host configuration values, especially passwords.
4
5To set host-specific vars create  a file with the same name as the host is
6called in the ``hosts`` file and in this file write the options as you would
7normally in the ``hosts`` file. For instance::
8
9    # file "h1.example.org"
10    ---
11    ansible_sudo_pass: my-secret-sudo-password
12    ansible_user: foo
13
14You can (and should) encrypt these files with `ansible-vault`::
15
16    $ ansible-vault create h1.example.org
17    <edit-file, add content as above>
18
19or, if the file exists already, yet unencrypted::
20
21    $ ansible-vault encrypt h1.example.com
22
23and later, when running ansible you can add ``--ask-vault-pass`` option to decrypt
24the config files. In that case make sure to use the same password for all vault
25files (or encrypt all files at once with the same password).
26
27This very file serves as a placeholder in case this whole repo is going to
28`git` somewhen.
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