From 956fa801157cc622083d7155316c4db333e1a02a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vilmos Nebehaj Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:17:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about installing cryptography. --- docsite/rst/playbooks_vault.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks_vault.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks_vault.rst index 5cb1eb90c9..cd294788b8 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/playbooks_vault.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks_vault.rst @@ -108,5 +108,11 @@ This is something you may wish to do if using Ansible from a continuous integrat (The `--vault-password-file` option can also be used with the :ref:`ansible-pull` command if you wish, though this would require distributing the keys to your nodes, so understand the implications -- vault is more intended for push mode). +.. _speeding_up_vault: +Speeding Up Vault Operations +```````````````````````````` +By default, Ansible uses PyCrypto to encrypt and decrypt vault files. If you have many encrypted files, decrypting them at startup may cause a perceptible delay. To speed this up, install the cryptography package:: + + pip install cryptography