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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Encrypt or decrypt using Ansible-vault and Ansible"""
+
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Max Mehl <https://mehl.mx>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import subprocess
+import json
+import argparse
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(title="commands", dest="command", required=True)
+# Encrypt arguments
+parser_encrypt = subparsers.add_parser(
+    "encrypt",
+    help="Encrypt a string using ansible-vault",
+)
+parser_encrypt.add_argument(
+    "-s",
+    "--string",
+    help="String that shall be encrypted",
+    dest="encrypt_string",
+)
+# Decrypt arguments
+parser_decrypt = subparsers.add_parser(
+    "decrypt",
+    help="Print a variable of one or multiple hosts and decrypt it if necessary",
+)
+parser_decrypt.add_argument(
+    "-H",
+    "--host",
+    help="Host name from Ansible inventory for which you want to get the variable",
+    dest="decrypt_host",
+)
+parser_decrypt.add_argument(
+    "-v",
+    "--var",
+    help="Variable you want to print",
+    dest="decrypt_var",
+)
+
+
+def encrypt(password):
+    """Encrypt string with ansible-vault"""
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ["ansible-vault", "encrypt_string"],
+        input=password,
+        text=True,
+        capture_output=True,
+    )
+    return result.stdout.strip()
+
+
+def decrypt(host, var):
+    """Decrypt/print a variable from one or multiple hosts"""
+    # Run ansible msg for variable
+    # Send return as JSON
+    ansible_command = ["ansible", host, "-m", "debug", "-a", f"msg={{{{ {var} }}}}"]
+    ansible_env = {
+        "ANSIBLE_LOAD_CALLBACK_PLUGINS": "1",
+        "ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK": "json",
+    }
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ansible_command, env=ansible_env, capture_output=True, text=True
+    )
+
+    # Parse JSON to just get the "msg"
+    ansible_output = json.loads(result.stdout)
+    msg = [
+        host["msg"]
+        for play in ansible_output["plays"]
+        for task in play["tasks"]
+        for host in task["hosts"].values()
+    ]
+
+    # Pretty print the JSON
+    return json.dumps(msg, indent=2)
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main function"""
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.command == "encrypt":
+        password = (
+            input("Enter string: ") if not args.encrypt_string else args.encrypt_string
+        )
+        vaultpw = encrypt(password)
+    elif args.command == "decrypt":
+        host = input("Enter host: ") if not args.decrypt_host else args.decrypt_host
+        var = input("Enter variable: ") if not args.decrypt_var else args.decrypt_var
+        vaultpw = decrypt(host, var)
+
+    print(vaultpw)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()