Secrets management · Named, not rankedAnsible Vault
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Ansible Vault has 3.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Homegrown or custom scripts (e.g., simple encrypted files with Ansible Vault without additional layers): High risk of human error, key management issues”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Only protects "data at rest"—once decrypted during playbook execution, secrets are exposed in plaintext”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Secrets are encrypted at rest but not centrally managed; access control depends on file permissions”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Ansible Vault, over the 6 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
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Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 6 of the 6 answers that named Ansible Vault and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-eight of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming Ansible Vault came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Events in person
- August 31, 2026 to September 3, 2026Red Hat at LEAP 2026RECC Malham, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · exhibited
- May 14, 2026 to May 17, 2026Red Hat at PyCon 2026Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach · exhibited
- May 11, 2026 to May 13, 2026SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference OrlandoOrange County Convention Center, Orlando · sponsored
- March 19, 2026 to March 21, 2026SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference MadridIFEMA Madrid, Madrid · sponsored
- March 17, 2026 to March 19, 2026SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026Bellagio, Las Vegas · sponsored
- November 5, 2025Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Toronto, ONFairmont Royal York, Toronto, Canada · took part
As the event pages on ansible.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ansible.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.