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When automating software and infrastructure, it is not uncommon to need to supply a user id and password for installation or other operations.  While it is certainly possible to pass these plaintext credentials directly in the state, this is not best practice. # not best practice!!! testdb_user: mysql_user.present: – name: frank – password: “test3rdb” – … SaltStack: Keeping Salt Pillar data encrypted using GPG