Implement caching for looked-up items

jhaals / ansible-vault

ansible lookup plugin for secrets stored in Vault(by HashiCorp)

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Implement caching for looked-up items #33

Closed mfriedenhagen closed 7 years ago

mfriedenhagen commented 7 years ago

When using Ansible with a lot of hosts, vault might be DOSed by a deployment, because for every host a REST call is issued.
As there is no host specific in the logic, the results may be easily cached in a dictionary.

jhaals commented 7 years ago

Sounds like a good solution to get around that problem. It would be great if you could add a VAULT_USE_CACHE environment variable that could default to true, just in case someone really need to run without caching.

jhaals commented 7 years ago

Thanks!