Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Ansible vault. You also learned how to encrypt files, decrypt them, rekey an encrypted file, edit them on the fly, and use the data within a playbook. Ansible vault provides us with a really simple way to encrypt and store encrypted data. As we saw through examples, the encrypting and decrypting of files within the ansible vault architecture does not need to be complex or complicated. The techniques we discussed within this chapter have wide applicable use within an IT operations- or DevOps-oriented organization.

In the next chapter, we will talk about Ansible's wide arrange of module and libraries. This chapter will help us identify some of the more popular modules and libraries that Ansible provides to integrate it with other tools. Let's proceed.