Managing Passwords in Ansible
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An Ansible role often runs commands that require certain privileges, so it must perform some forms of login. In the context of database automation, we normally talk about: ssh access, sudo access, and access to MariaDB. If we write these passwords in clear text in an Ansible repository, anyone who has access to the repository can access them. Let's see how we can avoid this.
The ssh Password
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Avoiding Passwords
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ansible-vault
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