How to pass password to Ansible from environment variable

4 years ago medium.com

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There is an idea that passing secrets via environment variables is more safe, than passing it via command line. Ansible has three methods to accept password: As you can see, non of them includes simple ANSIBLE_PASSWORD environment variable.

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