Ansible Vault

this document provides information about configuring {{futurex}} hsms with ansible vault by using {{futurex}} pkcs #11 libraries for additional questions related to your hsm, see the relevant user guide 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 using hsms to protect ansible private keys ansible vault can work with private keys stored on 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 an hsm to perform automated encryption and decryption tasks with ansible playbooks by using the {{futurex}} pkcs #11 library and openssl guardian integration the {{guard}} introduces mission critical viability to core cryptographic infrastructure, including centralization of device management elimination of points of failure distribution of transaction loads group specific function blocking user defined grouping systems see the applicable guide in the {{futurex}} portal for configuring hsms with the {{guard}} , including pkcs #11 and cng configuration