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Protect Secrets with Ansible Vault

Create and manage encrypted vault files, encrypt variable files, and run playbooks that use vault-stored secrets for user password management.

25 minutes
redhat/rhce
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Lab Overview

Ansible Vault protects sensitive data like passwords and API keys. In this lab, you will learn to create, manage, and use encrypted files in playbooks.

You will:

  • Create encrypted vault files with ansible-vault create
  • Configure a vault password file for automation
  • Encrypt individual strings with ansible-vault encrypt_string
  • Write playbooks that use vault-stored passwords to create users

Key Resources:

Prerequisites

rhce-files-templates

Technologies Covered

rhceex294ansiblevaultsecuritysecrets

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