Ansible

Overview

QCecuring provides an Ansible collection that enables teams to automate certificate provisioning, SSH key distribution, and cryptographic asset deployment as part of their configuration management workflows. This brings certificate lifecycle operations into existing Ansible playbooks and roles.

Key capabilities

• Ansible modules for requesting, deploying, and renewing TLS certificates through QCecuring.
• SSH key lifecycle management including generation, distribution, and rotation via playbooks.
• Idempotent operations ensuring certificates are only renewed or redeployed when necessary.
• Integration with Ansible Vault for secure handling of private keys during deployment.
• Inventory plugin for discovering hosts based on their certificate status in QCecuring.

Typical use cases

• Operations teams managing certificate deployment across large fleets of Linux and Windows servers.
• Security teams automating SSH key rotation across infrastructure using scheduled playbooks.
• Organizations integrating certificate management into existing Ansible-based provisioning workflows.

High-level integration flow

1. Install the QCecuring Ansible collection and configure API credentials in playbook variables.
2. Use QCecuring modules in playbooks to request certificates based on host roles and environments.
3. Playbooks deploy certificates to target servers, configure services, and trigger reloads.
4. Scheduled playbook runs handle renewal, ensuring certificates are refreshed before expiration.
5. QCecuring tracks all Ansible-deployed certificates with full inventory and compliance reporting.

CBOM Discovery

QCecuring scans Ansible playbooks and inventories for cryptographic configurations — certificate paths, key references, cipher suite settings, and SSH key deployments — feeding them into your CBOM.