Ansible for Network Engineers · Ansible 5

Roles, handlers and Ansible Vault

Package your automation the way teams share it: a role with defaults, tasks and a save handler, group variables that override the defaults, tags to run one part, and Ansible Vault to keep device passwords out of plain text, including fixing a file that was encrypted with an old password.

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  • Lab 1 · From one playbook to a role
  • Lab 2 · Vault the password, fix the old secret
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