Plugin support for Windows editing via Docker?

[andmos]

First off, I love this plugin - so thanks so much for the project!

I mainly use OS X when I administrate Ansible stuff, but I also use a Windows 10 desktop.
I was doodling on a possible solution for this plugin accessing Ansible Vault from Windows via Docker.
If a Linux container goes in the background and exposes the Vault binary and the encrypted files, my unqualified guess is that it should be able to get it working.

[sydro]

Hi, docker isn't a best solution (maybe one), but i'm trying some tests to add support to windows anyway

[andmos]

Yeah after some thinking I figured that out myself. As long as ansible-vault has to be run in a *NIX shell we have to be creative. How about running it via Linux subsystem for Windows and simply spawning the command in the Ubuntu shell if it is detected to be running on Windows? A person running Ansible on Windows in some way has to be creative in the first place, so he or she would be able to understand that. Personally I run Ansible via Vagrant on my Windows machine, but my colleagues have it installed via the Linux Subsystem.

[sydro]

Hi @andmos,
I made some tests and finally it works.
I push a new branch windows-support with a patch and a README-Windows.md file that contains guidelines.

If you want test it i will be pleased 👍

Probably i will test docker solution too!

[andmos]

Brilliant! Nice work! I will give it a try on monday!

[sydro]

Any news? Did you try it?

[cvdabbeele]

Hi sydro
I'd be happy to give this great feature a try on my windows 10 workstation.
Can you provide the ansible-vault.bat file ?
It seems to be missing at the link referenced at: https://github.com/sydro/atom-ansible-vault/blob/windows-support/README-Windows.md
thanks so much for this very valuable feature
chris

[sydro]

Sorry, the link to ansible-vault.bat was broken. I fixed it

[cvdabbeele]

Thank you so much Kyle
I'm seeing mixed results, but I may have a bit of an edge case...
File Open with auto-decrypt enabled (with pw in /home/ubuntu/pass.txt on WSL) works great. Cool !
But "Alt-File-Save" saves the file as clear text (should I maybe use another command?)
Using Windows10 with Windows subsystem for Linux (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 )
The secrets file is on my Windows filesystem (D:...) and Atom saves it locally and then syncs it to a remote Ubuntu system. (what could possible go wrong :-) ) Both save instances become clear-text
I'm still discovering atom, maybe I do something wrong.
Also the key-binding ctrl-alt-0 is enabled but that doesn't seem to do anything either...

[sydro]

I need to rebase this branch on master, there'are some changes that fix many bugs and this branch is very old.
i will do it and push all after test.

Thanks for your tests 👍

[andmos]

I'm so sorry I didn't catch this, since I started the whole thing... But great if you guys got it working, I'll have a look myself!