diff --git a/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml b/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml
index 9fc6ac1..f45aaf1 100644
--- a/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml
+++ b/roles/lxchost/tasks/lxd_profile.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
             owner: root:root
             path: /root/.vault_pass.txt
             permissions: '0600'
-            content: '{{ vaultpass | string | b64encode }}'
+            content: !!binary |
+              '{{ vaultpass | string | b64encode }}'
         runcmd:
           - pip3 install ansible
           - [ ansible-pull,