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authorVilmos Nebehaj <v.nebehaj@gmail.com>2015-07-28 21:17:51 +0200
committerVilmos Nebehaj <v.nebehaj@gmail.com>2015-07-29 11:43:10 +0200
commit956fa801157cc622083d7155316c4db333e1a02a (patch)
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parent58cccce3843031dc073533e0028ca929ae047817 (diff)
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Add note about installing cryptography.
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@@ -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