Before finishing this book, we wanted to take a brief look at some of the more interesting and advanced functionalities of Ansible. These can be handy to further enhance your automation. In this chapter, we are going to cover three features: Ansible Vault, and its capacity to increase the security of playbooks and roles; Ansible Container, to enable full container automation with Ansible; and Ansible plugins, with their rich and flexible set of features.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Overview of Ansible Vault
• How to configure and use Ansible Vault
• Benefits of Ansible Container
• Using Ansible Container
• Overview of Ansible plugins and their features