Secure Service Provisioning with Ansible Automation Platform, vCenter, HashiCorp Vault, and Cisco ASA/ACI

Automating deep into the environment drives efficiency and security. In this demo we show how to integrate Ansible Tower, vCenter, HashiCorp Vault, and Cisco ASA/ACI devices. The outcome is a single Ansible playbook that does the work of the VM admin, O/S admin, network admin, and the security/firewall team. This demo walks through the following steps:

• Prerequisites for integration
• Begin deployment from Ansible Tower
• Retrieve secrets from HashiCorp Vault
• Connect to vCenter and create VM
• Attach VM to existing Cisco ACI EPG
• Glean IP from deployed VM
• Allow traffic to new VM
• Push NAT and Security Rule
• Automation Testing