In this section, we are going to introduce the features, use cases, and best practices that are associated with Ansible Vault.
Ansible Vault
What is Ansible Vault?
Ansible Vault is a tool provided by Ansible that allows its users to encrypt secret variables, which can vary from authentication credentials and keys to sensitive and personal user information. Ansible Vault creates encrypted files to store variables, which can be moved to a secure location if necessary.
Ansible Vault is integrated transparently into the scripts of Ansible roles and playbooks. This means that Vault can encrypt any data structures that are located within those scripts. This includes host and group variables, either stored in the script or from another...
