Ansible Tips Part 4: Encrypt Sensitive Data
Everyday I pray to Lord Turing that I never see another Production database password in version control again. Unfortunately, I doubt my prayers will be answered because it seems to be an epidemic in Tech to store an application’s production configuration file in version control without any thought to security or privacy. So if developers cannot stop themselves from storing passwords in version control, does anyone honestly think a sysadmin will think twice about storing passwords for their Ansible provisioning in version control? ...