Introduction to Ansible Network Automation: A Practical Primer

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B. Choi, E. MedinaIntroduction to Ansible Network Automationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9624-0_17

17. Creating User Accounts on Palo Alto and Fortinet Firewalls

Brendan Choi¹   and Erwin Medina¹

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

In this chapter, we will take a look at creating an administrator account using an Ansible playbook. We will also practice using ansible-vault. In today’s digital landscape, securing sensitive data is of utmost importance, and ansible-vault provides a quick and easy way to encrypt and decrypt sensitive user information. Throughout the chapter, we will provide a guide that covers the entire thought process, starting from manual user ...