In previous posts we’ve looked at how to look up Secrets from Hashicorp Vault using Ansible and Ansible Tower. We’ve also taken a look at how to integrate Azure Key Vault with Ansible Tower, however I’ve never gotten round to taking a look at how to integrate Ansible itself with Azure Key Vault (without the use of Tower). Whilst I’ve largley moved away from using Azure Key Vault in favour . . .
Recently we looked at integrating Ansible Tower with Hashicorp Vault, but I thought it would be worth taking a look at another popular Secrets management system, Azure Key Vault. Whilst the solution isn’t exactly the same using Azure Key Vault and Tower was my first time trying to integrate Ansible with a centralised Secrets repository, so let’s take a look at how to achieve the integration as it’s not very . . .
Outside of the tools, technology and other bells and whistles of the DevOps mindset are the concepts of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery). Getting to grips with this mentality and the tools used to implement it can be a challenge but not one that needs to take a lifetime, especially not if you’ve been observing some sensible behaviour out of the gate. A multitude of tools claim to have . . .