Security Automation with Ansible 2

Playbook to do this with automation

To perform the preceding trigger, we can use the following Ansible playbook. This can be used in our Ansible Tower to schedule the scan as well.

The following playbook can store the the API Token key using Ansible Vault, feature to store secret data in an encrypted format in playbooks. We will learn more about Ansible Vault usage in Chapter 11, Ansible Security Best Practices, References and Further Reading.

To create an Ansible Vault encrypted variable, run the following command. When it prompts for a password, give a password to encrypt this variable and it requires while executing the playbook

echo 'YOURTOKENGOESHERE' | ansible-vault encrypt_string --stdin-name 'jenkins_api_token'

After executing, it ...