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[](https://www.python.org)
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[](https://github.com/psf/black)
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⚠️ **This project is alpha software and is under active development** ⚠️
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⚠️ **This project is beta software and is under active development** ⚠️
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- [What is this?](#what-is-this)
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- [Installing](#installing)
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- [Using](#using)
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- [Usage](#usage)
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- [Recovering from a failed migration](#recovering-from-a-failed-migration)
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- [Roadmap](#roadmap)
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- [Developing](#developer-documentation)
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## What is this?
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pipx install vault2vault[ansible]
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```
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**Note: vault2vault requires an Ansible installation to function. If you are installing to a standalone virtual environment (like with PipX) then you must install it with the `ansible` extra to ensure a version of Ansible is available to the application.**
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> Note: vault2vault requires an Ansible installation to function. If you are installing to a
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> standalone virtual environment (like with PipX) then you must install it with the
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> `ansible` extra to ensure a version of Ansible is available to the application.\*\*
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## Using
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## Usage
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These docs are pretty sparse, largely because this project is still under active design
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and redevelopment. Here are the command line options:
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> Note: the full command reference is available by running `vault2vault --help`
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```
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> vault2vault --help
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usage: vault2vault [-h] [--version] [--interactive] [-v] [-b] [-i VAULT_ID] [--ignore-undecryptable]
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[--old-pass-file OLD_PASS_FILE] [--new-pass-file NEW_PASS_FILE]
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[paths ...]
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Vault2Vault works with files in any arbitrary directory structures, so there is no need to
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have your Ansible project(s) structured in a specific way for the tool to work. The
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simplest usage of Vault2Vault is by passing the path to your Ansible project directory to
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the command:
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Recursively rekey ansible-vault encrypted files and in-line variables
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positional arguments:
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paths Paths to search for Ansible Vault encrypted content
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options:
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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--version Show program version and exit
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--interactive Step through files and variables interactively, prompting for confirmation before making
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each change
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-v, --verbose Increase verbosity; can be repeated
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-b, --backup Write a backup of every file to be modified, suffixed with '.bak'
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-i VAULT_ID, --vault-id VAULT_ID
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Limit rekeying to encrypted secrets with the specified Vault ID
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--ignore-undecryptable
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Ignore any file or variable that is not decryptable with the provided vault secret instead
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of raising an error
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--old-pass-file OLD_PASS_FILE
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Path to a file with the old vault password to decrypt secrets with
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--new-pass-file NEW_PASS_FILE
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Path to a file with the new vault password to rekey secrets with
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```bash
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vault2vault ./my-ansible-project/
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```
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Please report any bugs or issues you encounter on
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[Github](https://github.com/enpaul/vault2vault/issues).
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The tool will prompt for the current vault password and the new vault password and then
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process every file under the provided path. You can also specify multiple paths and
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they'll all be processed together:
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```bash
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vault2vault \
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./my-ansible-project/playbooks/ \
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./my-ansible-project/host_vars/ \
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./my-ansible-project/group_vars/
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```
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To skip the interactive password prompts you can put the password in a file and have the
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tool read it in at runtime. The `--old-pass-file` and `--new-pass-file` parameters work
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the same way as the `--vault-password-file` option from the `ansible` command:
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```bash
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vault2vault ./my-ansible-project/ \
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--old-pass-file=./oldpass.txt \
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--new-pass-file=./newpass.txt
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```
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If you use multiple vault passwords in your project and want to roll them you'll need to
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run `vault2vault` once for each password you want to change. By default, `vault2vault`
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will fail with an error if it encounters vaulted data that it cannot decrypt with the
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provided current vault password. To change this behavior and instead just ignore any
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vaulted data that can't be decrypted (like, for example, if you have data encrypted with
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multiple vault passwords) you can pass the `--ignore-undecryptable` flag to turn the
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errors into warnings.
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> Please report any bugs or issues you encounter on
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> [Github](https://github.com/enpaul/vault2vault/issues).
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### Recovering from a failed migration
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This tool is still pretty early in it's development, and to be honest it hooks into
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Ansible's functionality in some fragile ways. I've tested as best I can to ensure it
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covers as many edge cases as possible, but there is still the chance that you might get
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partway through a password migration and then have the tool fail out, leaving half of your
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data successfully rekeyed and the other half not.
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In the spirit of the
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[Unix philosophy](https://hackaday.com/2018/09/10/doing-one-thing-well-the-unix-philosophy/)
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this tool does not include any built-in way to recover from this state. However, it can
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be done very effectively using a version control tool.
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If you are using Git to track your project files then you can use the command
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`git reset --hard` to restore all files to the state of the currently checked out commit.
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This does have the side effect of erasing any other un-committed work in the repository,
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so it's recommended to always have a clean working tree when using Vault2Vault.
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If you are not using a version control system to track your project files then you can
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create a temporary Git repository to use in the event of a migration failure:
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```bash
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cd my-project/
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# Initialize the new repository
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git init
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# Add and commit all your existing files to the git tree
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git add .
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git commit -m "initial commit"
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# Run vault migrations
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vault2vault ...
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# If no recovery is necessary, delete the git repository data
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rm -rf .git
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```
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## Roadmap
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This project is considered feature complete as of the
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[0.1.1](https://github.com/enpaul/vault2vault/releases/tag/0.1.1) release. As a result the
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roadmap focuses on stability and user experience ahead of a 1.0 release.
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- [ ] Reimplement core vaulted data processing function to enable multithreading
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- [ ] Implement multithreading for performance in large environments
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- [ ] Add unit tests
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- [ ] Add integration tests
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- [ ] Redesign logging messages to improve clarity and consistency
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## Developer Documentation
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