Credential types
Ansible Automation Platform supports a number of credential types.
The credential types associated with AWS Secrets Manager, Centrify, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, Microsoft Azure Key Vault, and Thycotic are part of the credential plugins capability that enables an external system to lookup your secrets information.
For more information, see Secrets Management System.
- Amazon Web Services credential type
Select this credential to enable synchronization of cloud inventory with Amazon Web Services. - Ansible Galaxy or automation hub API token credential type
You can create a Ansible Galaxy or private automation hub API token credential in automation controller to access collections published on Ansible Galaxy or an instance of private automation hub. - AWS secrets manager lookup
Use this credential type so that automation controller can retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. - BitBucket data center HTTP access token
Bitbucket Data Center is a self-hosted Git repository for collaboration and management. Select this credential type to enable you to use HTTP access tokens in place of passwords for Git over HTTPS. - Centrify Vault Credential Provider Lookup credential type
The Centrify Vault Credential Provider Lookup credential type allows automation controller to retrieve secrets from a Centrify Vault server. - Container registry credential type
A Container Registry credential allows automation controller to authenticate to a container registry service to access container images. - CyberArk Central Credential Provider Lookup credential type
The CyberArk Central Credential Provider (CCP) Lookup credential type allows Automation controller to retrieve credentials from a CyberArk vault by using the Central Credential Provider REST API. - CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager Lookup credential type
Automation controller can use CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager to retrieve secrets for use by the controller and managed nodes. - GitHub Personal Access Token credential type
Select this credential to enable you to access GitHub by using a Personal Access Token (PAT), which you can get through GitHub. - GitLab Personal Access Token credential type
Select this credential to access GitLab by using a Personal Access Token (PAT), which you can get through GitLab. - Google Compute Engine credential type
Select this credential to enable synchronization of a cloud inventory with Google Compute Engine (GCE). - GPG Public Key credential type
Select this credential type to enable automation controller to verify the integrity of the project when synchronizing from source control. - HashiCorp Vault Secret Lookup credential type
This is considered part of the secret management capability. - HashiCorp Vault Signed SSH credential type
The HashiCorp Vault Signed SSH credential type allows automation controller to retrieve signed SSH certificates from a HashiCorp Vault server. - Red Hat Lightspeed credential type
Select this credential type to enable synchronization of cloud inventory with Red Hat Lightspeed. - Access machine credentials in an ansible playbook
You can get username and password from Ansible facts: - Microsoft Azure Key Vault credential type
The Microsoft Azure Key Vault credential type allows automation controller to authenticate to Microsoft Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets for use in playbooks and other automation tasks. - Microsoft Azure Resource Manager credential type
Select this credential type to enable synchronization of cloud inventory with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager. - Network credential type
You can create Network credential types in automation controller to manage network devices that use Ansible networking modules. - OpenShift or Kubernetes API Bearer Token credential type
Select this credential type to create instance groups that point to a Kubernetes or OpenShift container. - OpenStack credential type
Select this credential type to enable synchronization of cloud inventory with OpenStack. - Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform credential type
Select this credential to access another automation controller instance. - Red Hat Satellite 6 credential type
Select this credential type to enable synchronization of cloud inventory with Red Hat Satellite 6. - Red Hat Virtualization credential type
Select this credential to enable automation controller to access Ansible’soVirt4.pydynamic inventory plugin, which is managed by Red Hat Virtualization. - Source Control credential type
Source Control credentials are used with projects to clone and update local source code repositories from a remote revision control system such as Git or Subversion. - Terraform: Backend configuration
Terraform is a HashiCorp tool used to automate various infrastructure tasks. Select this credential type to enable synchronization with the Terraform inventory source. - Terraform: HCP Terraform credential type
When using thehashicorp.terraformcollection, you can use the HCP Terraform credential type for HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise (TFE/C). - Thycotic DevOps Secrets Vault credential type
You can use Thycotic DevOps Secrets Vault as a credential type within automation controller. - Thycotic secret server credential type
This is considered part of the secret management capability. - Ansible Vault credential type
You can use the Ansible Vault credential type to store sensitive data, such as passwords or keys, in encrypted files. - VMware vCenter credential type
Select this credential type to enable synchronization of inventory with VMware vCenter.