Ansible terminology — What is an Ansible Vault?

How to store variables and files in an encrypted way using the ansible-vault command line utility.

What is an Ansible Vault?

How to store variables and files in an encrypted way.

I will show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton, and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible Vault

Ansible Vault encrypts variables and files to protect sensitive content and lets you use them in Playbooks, Roles, and Collections.

Ansible Vault stores variables and files encrypted and lets you use them in Vaults or roles. The cipher used to protect files is AES 256 in recent versions of Ansible.

Links

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/vault.html

demo

I will show you how to encrypt one password using the ansible-vault command line utility.

Let’s assume that the password is currently stored in a single Ansible file (YAML) called plain-to-encrypted.yml.