personalised.yaml is a basic ansible playbook to personalise the servers I work with, used with ansible 2.5.3. ssh-agent should be running, host_vars should be set with ansible-vault, e.g.: ansible-vault create host_vars/example.com.yaml With contents such as: ansible_become_password: examplepassword Invoked with: ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass ~/.ansible/personalised.yml