diff --git a/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml b/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml
index 8680053..9fc6ac1 100644
--- a/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml
+++ b/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
             permissions: '0644'
             content: !!binary |
               '{{ knownhosts | string | b64encode }}'
-          - owner: root:root
+          - encoding: gzip
+            owner: root:root
             path: /root/.vault_pass.txt
             permissions: '0600'
             content: '{{ vaultpass | string | b64encode }}'