Specify sudo password for Ansible

How do I specify a sudo password for Ansible in non-interactive way?

I'm running Ansible playbook like this:

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i inventory.ini \
    --user=username --ask-sudo-pass

But I want to run it like this:

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i inventory.ini \
    --user=username` **--sudo-pass=12345**

Is there a way? I want to automate my project deployment as much as possible.

Solution 1:

The docs strongly recommend against setting the sudo password in plaintext, and instead using --ask-sudo-pass on the command line when running ansible-playbook

2016 Update:

Ansible 2.0 (not 100% when) marked --ask-sudo-pass as deprecated. The docs now recommend using --ask-become-pass instead, while also swapping out the use of sudo throughout your playbooks with become.

Solution 2:

You can pass variable on the command line via --extra-vars "name=value". Sudo password variable is ansible_sudo_pass. So your command would look like:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i inventory.ini --user=username \
                              --extra-vars "ansible_sudo_pass=yourPassword"

Update 2017: Ansible 2.2.1.0 now uses var ansible_become_pass. Either seems to work.

Update 2021: ansible_become_pass is still working, but for now, we should use -e instead of --extra-vars