How to Use Ansible Become Keyword to Secure Playbooks

Ansible's become keyword allows for privilege escalation in managing infrastructure tasks such as deployment, orchestration, cloud provisioning, and security across remote hosts. It uses an agentless, push-based model for seamless communication and consistent management. Tasks are written in YAML and stored in playbooks, which can use built-in or custom modules to execute commands or manage resources. The become keyword enables tasks to run with elevated permissions (defaulting to the root user), whereas become_user specifies the user account Ansible should switch to after privilege escalation, overriding the default (root). They are often used together to enable and customize privilege escalation for specific tasks.

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