# Dynamic Inventory with ansible-vault in AWX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-with-ansible-vault-in-awx/44428>\
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**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [September 5, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-with-ansible-vault-in-awx/44428 "2025-09-05T16:11:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-with-ansible-vault-in-awx/44428/1 "2025-09-05T16:11:52Z")

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Hi, I have a dynamic inventory in my Ansible project, and some of the files it uses are encrypted with Ansible Vault. I want to use this inventory in AWX. The issue is not in the playbooks, but in the inventory itself — specifically, when you go to **Inventories → Sources → Add a Project**. How can I configure AWX so that it can automatically decrypt these Vault-encrypted files when loading the inventory from the project, without having to put sensitive variables directly into Extra Vars? In other words, how can I securely use a dynamic inventory with Ansible Vault in AWX so that the inventory and its variables are decrypted for the hosts during job runs?