Hashicorp Vault - Tokens and the REST API

In my last post I covered the setup and hardening of Hashicorp’s Vault platform, in this post I’ll be looking at getting to grips with REST API and the Token authentication method. Tokens are core to the Vault authent...

Hashicorp Vault - Secure Installation and Setup

Recently I’ve been working with Hashicorp’s Vault, a product that I’d played with a little in the past but never really gotten stuck in to. Vault provides a centralised Secret Management platform, including some reall...

Azure Key Vault - Integrating With Ansible Tower

Recently we looked at integrating Ansible Tower with Hashicorp Vault, but I thought it would be worth taking a look at another popular Secrets management system, Azure Key Vault. Whilst the solution isn’t exactly the ...

Ansible Tower - Integrating with Cisco Devices

Following my look at integrating Ansible Tower with Windows, I thought I’d take a look at another common requirement that needs some slight tweaking (though not nearly to the extent of Windows), networking devices, sp...

Ansible Tower and Windows Authentication

Since the release of Ansible 1.7, way back in the forgotten era of 2014, Ansible can connect to Windows (2008 and higher) using remote PowerShell over that most finicky of mechanisms, WinRM.