Managing SSH keys with Ansible
One of the most tedious administration tasks can be managing user keys. Although tools such as ssh-copy-id make it easy to copy your key to single servers, it can be a taller order to copy them out to several hundred or even a few thousand servers. Ansible makes this task exceptionally easy and allows you to mass-revoke keys when you need to ensure that access has been removed for users across a large server estate.
Getting ready
All you need to use for this recipe is a configured Ansible control node and an Ansible inventory describing your target nodes. You should also have a SSH key, both public and private that you wish to manage.
How to do it...
Let's use SSH keys to manage Ansible:
- The first thing we might want ...
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