Introduction to Ansible Vault
Why Ansible Vault?: Ansible had no mechanism in which users can encrypt data such as a Playbook and Role and if any third-party module for encryption was used, it caused many problems in terms of Encrypting the Data and Decrypting it at times of Execution, this lead to the idea of a Utility which can fix this gap and provide better functionality with Ansible. What is Ansible Vault? Vault is a mechanism that allows encrypted content to be incorporated transparently into Ansible workflows. A utility called ansible-vault secures confidential data by encrypting it on disk. To integrate these secrets with regular Ansible data, both the ansible and ansible-playbook commands. It uses the AES256 algorithm to provide symmetric encryption keyed to a user-supplied password. This means that the same password is used to encrypt and decrypt content, which is helpful from a usability standpoint. Now that you understand a bit about what Vault is, we can start discussing the tools Ansible provides,