So, two repos? One with passwords in it, another without?

--David Reagan

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Mirko Friedenhagen <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> I am using push right now exclusively and thought about ansible-pull as
> well.
>
> My idea was to tag all tasks which need passwords/secret keys and only run
> them only in push mode. Most (of my) tasks do not secrets.
>
> Regards
> Mirko
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> Am 04.06.2015 22:34 schrieb "David Reagan" <[email protected]>:
>
>> ansible-pull checks out your entire project repository, then runs
>> whichever playbook you tell it to. That repo is basically a map to your
>> entire infrastructure.
>>
>> So, how do you ensure a compromised server doesn't reveal all that
>> information to an attacker? (With the assumption that the attacker has root
>> access, and that a single rooted server doesn't mean your entire
>> infrastructure is rooted.)
>>
>> ansible-pull can purge the repo after it runs, but that doesn't stop an
>> attacker from running ansible-pull with that option turned off in order to
>> get a copy of the whole repo. Or just read the repo the next time
>> ansible-pull is running.
>>
>> If you use ansible-vault, then your vault password is either in the cron
>> job, or in a file on the server that the attacker has access to, and knows
>> the location of.
>>
>> So far, all I can think of to mitigate these issues, is a repo per
>> server, and a vault password per repo.... Which kinda destroys most of why
>> people use configuration management.
>>
>> Am I just not thinking of it in the right way, or maybe misunderstanding
>> how something works?
>>
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