Setup-passwords from ansible script

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Hey,

I'd like to automate my cluster provisionning (ansible). I am stucked on the password setup. How can I set my elastic, kibana and logstash passwords from a script, without prompting? I don't want to use the setup-password auto because I want to decide for my passwords.

I'd like to pass them as a parameter or as stdin

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Hi Olivier,

setup-password is not meant to be scriptable or used as part of a deployment script. It basically wraps a number of calls to the _password API and you should do the same in your ansible playbook.

@TimV has written some useful instructions here on how to make use of the API and the bootstrap.password that might come in handy

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OK, switching to this thread

thank's

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Hi Olivier,

The official ansible-elasticsearch playbook also handles it by making requests directly to the _password api.

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