Working with sensitive data-1 : Ansible Vault and using it with AWS Parameter Store.

In the first part of this article, we’ll talk about how to secure your sensitive content or confidential information, such as your passwords, API tokens, SSH public or private keys, SSL certificates, and password variables, with Ansible Vault. In the second part of this article, we’ll talk about how to securely save and retrieve a file’s password created by ansible-vault, using the AWS SSM Parameter Store.
I’ll demonstrate how to use Ansible Vault and AWS SSM Parameter Store step by step hands-on, by explaining some of the best practices for keeping the data safe.
Read on and keep prying eyes away from your secrets!

Topics we will cover:

1. What is Ansible Vault?

2. Using Ansible Vault

3. Creating a user with ansible playbooks using ansible vault