The Ghost Operator's Signal
SOPS: Secrets OPerationS – A silent tool for Ghost Operators. Silent Architects.
Ansible Vault safeguards your data.
SOPS restores the signal.
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Ghosts know that secrets are critical.
You can’t let them sit or travel in plain text.
Ansible Vault is the blade of the Operator.
No cloud. No silent bleeding. No prying eyes.
Your data is in your hands. Only you decide.
You are the operator.
No browser plugin. No hidden sync. It’s just you and the file.
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Password vaults are the Operator’s allies.
They keep secrets contained.
Versioned.
Secure.
We’ve tested the blades of Passbolt – the open-source team-focused vault.
Vaultwarden is different.
Silent.
Small.
Minimal footprint.
DeadSwitch investigates open source tools not for visibility, but for survival.
No sponsorships. No affiliate codes. No fake enthusiasm.
He moves through the noise, testing what matters – what can be trusted, what can be hardened, what deserves a place in the ghost stack.
This time, it’s Passbolt.
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In today’s security-conscious IT environments, sensitive data like passwords, API keys, and certificates must be handled with care. Ansible offers a solution through Ansible Vault – a feature that allows you to encrypt sensitive information. However, as environments become more complex, managing a single vault can quickly become cumbersome. This is where Ansible Vault IDs come into play, enabling you to manage different tiers of secrets with ease.
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Managing sensitive data securely is very important. Whether it’s passwords, API keys, or other confidential information, properly storing and accessing these secrets is crucial for maintaining the integrity and security of your systems. Ansible Vault is a powerful tool to address this challenge.
Continue reading “Ansible Basics 08: Ansible Vault”Ansible Vault is a feature of Ansible that allows you to encrypt sensitive data such as passwords or keys in encrypted files, rather than as plaintext in playbooks or roles. This provides the ability to secure any sensitive data that is necessary to successfully run Ansible projects. Ansible Vault uses the AES 256 algorithm to provide symmetric encryption, which means that it uses the same password for encrypting and decrypting files. The ansible-vault command is the main interface for managing encrypted content within Ansible, and it is used to initially encrypt files and subsequently used to view, edit, or decrypt the data. Ansible Vault is especially useful if you have confidential data that you want to secure and prevent from being publicly exposed.
In today’s fast-paced world of automation and configuration management, Ansible has emerged as a leading tool for orchestrating and streamlining IT operations. As Ansible allows us to automate complex tasks and manage configurations effectively, it becomes paramount to handle sensitive information, such as vault passwords, with utmost care. In this blog post, we will explore the best practices for securely managing Ansible Vault passwords, ensuring that your automation workflows remain robust and safeguarded.
Hashicorp Vault is a popular tool for managing secrets and encryption in cloud environments. It allows us to store, access, and distribute sensitive data securely across different applications and platforms. In this blog post, I will show us how to install Hashicorp Vault on Debian 11 (Bullseye), the latest stable release of the Debian operating system.
Continue reading “How to install Hashicorp Vault on Debian”Hashicorp Vault is a secret storage solution for storing and managing secrets, such as passwords, tokens, certificates, and keys. In this post, we will go through how to use Ansible with Hashicorp Vault to retrieve secrets and use them in our Ansible playbooks.
Continue reading “How to use Ansible with the Hashicorp Vault secret manager?”As our infrastructure grows, we may have to use secret data of different sensitivity. If our “Infrastructure as Code” is developed by different teams, maybe every team wants to protect their own passwords, API tokens, keys, etc with different Vault passwords. This is why we use IDs in Ansible Vault.
Continue reading “Using different Ansible Vault passwords with vault-id”Sometimes we may want to encrypt only a single variable value or a short piece of text that we need to use in our playbook or role. For example, we may want to encrypt a user password or an API key, and not an entire file. Encrypting single variables is also a good idea when we keep our files in Source Control Management like Git.
Ansible Vault has a function to encrypt only parts of files, to encrypt variables instead of the whole file.
Continue reading “Handling sensitive data with Ansible Vault: encrypting strings instead of files”When we automate configurations we cannot avoid providing secrets to Ansible. The last thing we want is our secret data running around in plain text files on our control node. Luckily Ansible has a tool for this.
Ansible Vault is an integrated encryption tool in Ansible to manage sensitive data like passwords, keys and certificates. As with most parts of Ansible, we can start simple, and complexity can come later on.
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