Managing Secrets in Ansible

Hi there! 👋 In my previous blog post I covered how to get started with Ansible. In this blog post I’ll be continuing to write about Ansible and covering how to manage secrets in Ansible playbooks. Ready… set… go! 🚀 Managing Secrets in Ansible 🔑 As with most automation, we need to use credentials to authenticate to our servers and other applications. Examples of secrets include usernames and passwords, API keys, SSH keys, etc. When using these types of secrets in playbooks, we need to store them securely but also still allow Ansible to access them when needed. ...

April 3, 2023 · 4 min · 816 words · Daniel Brennand