DevOps | Automation | Ansible Vault | Securing Your Critical Information

Ansible Vault is tool provided by Ansible for encrypting/decrypting the secret information stored in the playbooks and files controlled under Ansible. For example critical information such as passwords or ssh keys. With version 2.3 Ansible is capable to encrypt single values which was not possible earlier i.e. Earlier it was only possible to encrypt the whole file. Ansible vault is also capable to encrypt/decrypt the binary files too , for example if we got file in the files directory and we use copy module to deploy the file on the remote server , it will be deployed in unencrypted form. Security check or vault password authentication will be performed when you run the playbook responsible for copying the file over. Ansible use AES 256 cipher for the encryption.

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[maheshgoudmoola]

Thanks Yogesh, This is very simplified explanation & Good Demo..

[ghanishah]

Thanks Yogesh. just need to know i have a decrypted playbook but its keep asking me the vault secret whenever i run the playbook. how to remove asking secret on playbook.

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