Manage Ansible playbook secrets with AWS services

Lookup plugins for Ansible allow you to do a lot of cool things. One of them is to securely pass sensitive information to your playbooks. If you manage some apps in AWS with Ansible, then using Parameter Store or Secrets Manager along with it might greatly improve your security. Variables with SSM Parameter Store Let’s say you have some variables defined in ‘defaults/main.yaml’ file of your role or maybe in group_vars....

August 6, 2020 · Serhii Vasylenko