5장. Using Ansible to manage IdM service vaults: storing and retrieving secrets

This section shows how an administrator can use the ansible-freeipa vault module to securely store a service secret in a centralized location. The vault used in the example is asymmetric, which means that to use it, the administrator needs to perform the following steps:

The service secret is encrypted with the public key when an administrator archives it into the vault. Afterwards, a service instance hosted on a specific machine in the domain retrieves the secret using the private key. Only the service and the administrator are allowed to access the secret.

If the secret is compromised, the administrator can replace it in the service vault and then redistribute it to those individual service instances that have not been compromised.