RH294 Ch 5: Ansible Vault
The project in `~/ansible` is ready (groups `dev`=node1, `test`=node2). Keep passwords out of plain text: create and change vaulted files, and use them in a playbook that creates accounts with hashed passwords. Two files are waiting in the project: `api.yml` (plain text) and `old-secrets.yml` (vaulted, password `oldpass`).
Tasks
- Create the vault password file ~/ansible/vault-pass containing webasha123, readable only by you (mode 0600), and set it as the vault password file in ansible.cfg.
- Create the vaulted file ~/ansible/secret.yml (vault password webasha123) with the variables devpass: Devp@ss1 and mgrpass: Mgrp@ss1.
- Encrypt the existing api.yml with the same vault password.
- Rekey old-secrets.yml (current password oldpass) to the new password webasha123.
- Write users.yml that loads secret.yml with varsfiles and creates user devuser on dev with password devpass, and user manager on test with password mgrpass, both stored as SHA-512 hashes. Run it.