How to fetch certificate from azure key vault using Ansible

Ankita Rani Patro 176

Hello,Currently we are storing certificate in azure key vault.and manually binding certificate to iis service.but need a way to automate fetch certificate from azure key vault using Ansible and then automate binding.

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2023-12-07T09:36:28.3+00:00

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2023-12-11T19:53:01.4233333+00:00

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Dillon Silzer 57,431 Reputation points

2023-12-07T03:07:34.4733333+00:00

Hello,

Please see the following tutorial for storing VM secrets with Ansible in Azure Key Vault:

Tutorial: Use Azure Key Vault to store VM secrets with Ansible

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/ansible/key-vault-configure-secrets?tabs=ansible

Note: Ansible 2.9 (or later) is required to run the sample playbooks in this article.

Get secrets from key vault

Secrets stored in Azure key vault can be used to populate Ansible variables.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/ansible/key-vault-configure-secrets?tabs=ansible#get-secrets-from-key-vault

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Sebastiaan Mangoentinojo 0 Reputation points

2024-10-30T12:05:28.26+00:00

Those links only mention secrets, not certificates. I managed to download a certificate by name, but the format of the downloaded file is not clear to me. It is text. I base64 decoded it to see if it is pfx, but it is not.
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