Ansible Role: Thales Vormetric Transparent Encryption agent

Ansible role to install Thales Vormetric Transparent Encryption agent on Linux Servers.

Requirements

The role does not require anyting to run on RHEL and its derivatives. This role assumes that you have the software package located on a web server somewhere in your environment.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

software_url: "http://www.example.org"
package_base_name: "vee-fs"
package_version: "6.3.1-82"
dsm_hostname: "mydsm.example.org"
host_domain: "dsm_domain"
registration_secret: "mystrongpass"

software_url (Required) The URL that hosts the Installer package. This should be either http or https.

package_base_name (Required) The Installer package base (or begining) name. Unless Thales changes this in the future, should allways be vee-fs

package_version (Required) The version of the installer package. Agents are updated from time to time, so this var can be overridden with the latest version.

dsm_hostname (Required) The fully-qualified hostname (or IP address) of the Data Security Manager (DSM) appliance.

host_domain (Required) The Domain to attach newly registered agents. This name will have to match exactly how it is created in the DSM.

registration_secret (Required) The shared password used for automatic registration of agents to the DSM.

Role variables can be stored with the hosts.yaml file, or in the main variables file.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - role: mikepruett3.vormetric-agent
           vars:
             software_url: "http://www.example.org"
             package_base_name: "vee-fs"
             package_version: "6.3.1-82"
             dsm_hostname: "mydsm.example.org"
             host_domain: "dsm_domain"
             registration_secret: "mystrongpass"

License

MIT

Author Information

Role created by mikepruett3 on Github.com