How do you tune performance for Ansible Vault?

When working with Ansible Vault, performance tuning can greatly improve the speed and efficiency of encrypting and decrypting sensitive data. Here are some tips to optimize performance:

  • Use Symmetric Encryption: Utilize symmetric keys for faster processing.
  • Batch Operations: Process multiple files at once to reduce overhead.
  • Limit Vault Access: Avoid unnecessary decryption of files by correctly managing your vault permissions.
  • Upgrade Tools: Ensure you are using the latest version of Ansible to benefit from performance improvements.

Here’s a code example of how to encrypt a file with Ansible Vault:

ansible-vault encrypt secret_file.yml --encrypt-vault-id my_vault_id

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