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Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux

You're reading from   Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux Efficiently perform large-scale Linux infrastructure automation with Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789131611
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Core Concepts
2. Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Your IT Infrastructure with Ansible 4. Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWX 5. Section 2: Standardizing Your Linux Servers
6. Deployment Methodologies 7. Using Ansible to Build Virtual Machine Templates for Deployment 8. Custom Builds with PXE Booting 9. Configuration Management with Ansible 10. Section 3: Day-to-Day Management
11. Enterprise Repository Management with Pulp 12. Patching with Katello 13. Managing Users on Linux 14. Database Management 15. Performing Routine Maintenance with Ansible 16. Section 4: Securing Your Linux Servers
17. Using CIS Benchmarks 18. CIS Hardening with Ansible 19. Auditing Security Policy with OpenSCAP 20. Tips and Tricks 21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scanning the enterprise with OpenSCAP

So far in this chapter, we have covered the various tools available from the OpenSCAP project and the security policies you might wish to employ to scan your Enterprise Linux environment. Now that we have completed that groundwork, it's time to take a look at how to make use of these to actually scan your infrastructure. As we have discussed, there are three key tools that you might use to scan your infrastructure. We will start off this process by exploring the oscap command-line tool in the next section.

Scanning the Linux infrastructure with OSCAP

As we discussed earlier in this chapter, the oscap tool is a command-line utility designed for scanning the local machine that it is...

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