Ansible Vault

this document provides information on integrating ansible vault with {{ch}} through the {{futurex}} pkcs #11 library about ansible vault ansible is an open source it automation tool developed by red hat it automates various it tasks, such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation ansible vault is a feature of ansible that enables you to encrypt sensitive data, such as passwords or keys, in encrypted files instead of plaintext ansible vault key features encrypt entire files (yaml, vars, inventories) encrypt individual variables using encrypt string support for multiple vault ids/keys (e g , dev vs prod) secure file operations edit, view, rekey cli automation support ( vault password file) avoids leaving decrypted data on disk (when used carefully) aes256 encryption by default fully integrated with ansible playbooks/workflows what is {{ch}} ? {{ch}} is the most flexible and versatile cryptographic platform in the industry it combines every cryptographic function within our extensive solution suite you can operate {{ch}} within a simple web dashboard to deploy virtual cryptographic modules, fulfilling most use cases using {{ch}} to protect ansible private keys ansible vault works with private keys stored in hardware security modules (hsms), which helps to prevent the disclosure of the keys and enables the secure usage of private keys to perform various functions with this integration, you can securely reference your private key stored in {{ch}} to perform automated encryption and decryption tasks with ansible playbooks with the {{futurex}} pkcs #11 library, {{pkcs11 provider}} by latchset, and openssl