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Miscellaneous Configuration and Management Elements

Licensing

Omnia is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

Protect Authenticity

Every GitHub push requires a sign-off and a moderator is required to approve pull requests. All contributions have to be certified using the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO):

Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
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Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.


Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

Ansible Security

For the security guidelines of Ansible modules, go to Developing Modules Best Practices: Module Security.

Ansible Vault

Ansible vault enables encryption of variables and files to protect sensitive content such as passwords or keys rather than leaving it visible as plaintext in playbooks or roles. Please refer Ansible Vault guidelines for more information.

Encrypted Parameters Management

To view encrypted parameters:

ansible-vault view omnia_config_credentials.yml --vault-password-file .omnia_config_credentials_key

To edit encrypted parameters:

ansible-vault edit omnia_config_credentials.yml --vault-password-file .omnia_config_credentials_key

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