Ansible provides a utility named Ansible-vault, which as the name suggests, lets you manage data securely. The Ansible-vault utility can either let you create an encrypted file by launching an editor interface, or encrypt an existing file. In either case, it will ask for a vault password, which is then used to encrypt the data with the AES cipher. The encrypted contents can be stored in a version control system without being compromised. Since the AES is based on shared secret, the same password needs to be provided for decryption too. To provide the password, there are two options, while launching Ansible, run the --ask-vault-pass
option to prompt for the password, and the --vault-password-file
option to provide the path to the file that contains the password.
Ansible Playbook Essentials
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Ansible Playbook Essentials
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Overview of this book
Ansible Playbook Essentials will show you how to write a blueprint of your infrastructure, encompassing multitier applications using Ansible's playbooks. Beginning with basic concepts such as plays, tasks, handlers, inventory, and YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) syntax that Ansible uses, you'll understand how to organize your code into a modular structure. Building on this, you will study techniques to create data-driven playbooks with variables, templates, logical constructs, and encrypted data, which will further strengthen your application skills in Ansible. Adding to this, the book will also take you through advanced clustering concepts, such as discovering topology information about other nodes in the cluster and managing multiple environments with isolated configurations. As you approach the concluding chapters, you can expect to learn about orchestrating infrastructure and deploying applications in a coordinated manner.
By the end of this book, you will be able to design solutions to your automation and orchestration problems using playbooks quickly and efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Ansible Playbook Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Setting Up the Learning Environment
Free Chapter
Blueprinting Your Infrastructure
Going Modular with Ansible Roles
Separating Code and Data – Variables, Facts, and Templates
Bringing In Your Code – Custom Commands and Scripts
Controlling Execution Flow – Conditionals
Iterative Control Structures – Loops
Node Discovery and Clustering
Encrypting Data with Vault
Managing Environments
Orchestrating Infrastructure with Ansible
References
Index
Customer Reviews