Credentials in rulebooks? Definitely not.

When I first started using rulebooks I noticed a problem right away. What happens if I need credential information? Typically I try to keep my credentials out of vault and in a password manager.

However, with EDA and custom credentials the barrier to bringing credentials in is very low. We’ll cover creating a custom credential that gets called in via extra vars. This is a small but important part of my talk at Red Hat Summit 2026.

A common pattern in event-driven architectures is exposing an HTTP endpoint that drops messages onto a queue for downstream processing. AWS API Gateway has a native integration with SQS that lets you do this without writing a Lambda. The gateway talks directly to the SQS service. This post walks through a Terraform configuration that provisions the entire infrastructure. This will support one or more Event-Driven Ansible rulesbooks using the builtin collection

This is part two to the previous post about customizing the Microsoft Fabric Assessment tool. See the previous post or my GitHub to fork the tool for your own use.

Next Steps

Once I understood and repackaged the tool I was able to get it to output the needed files for the PowerBI dashboards. However, we wanted to be able to drop these files weekly into a SharePoint site so the dashboards were automatically updated.