Ansible Server Patching utilizing Ansible Vault
This quick guide shows how to use an Ansible playbook to patch a bunch of servers. This approach still is not fully automated, as it needs user input for the execution and provision of secrets from ansible-vault. Prerequisites Ansible installed: Make sure Ansible is installed on the machine that will run the playbook. If you are on MacOS like me, just use brew install ansible. Vault setup: Install and configure Ansible Vault for handling sensitive data....