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You're reading from Learn Ansible Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788998758

Length 578 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Ansible

2. Installing and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER

3. The Ansible Commands

4. Deploying a LAMP Stack

5. Deploying WordPress

6. Targeting Multiple Distributions

7. The Core Network Modules

8. Moving to the Cloud

9. Building Out a Cloud Network

10. Highly Available Cloud Deployments

11. Building Out a VMware Deployment

12. Ansible Windows Modules

13. Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP

14. Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP

15. Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX

16. Ansible Galaxy

17. Next Steps with Ansible

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP

One of the advantages of using an orchestration and configuration tool like Ansible is that it can be used to generate and deploy a complex set of configurations in a repeatable task across many hosts. In this chapter, we are going to a look at a tool that actually generates the configuration for you to then apply.

In this chapter, we will learn how to harden a Red Hat-based CentOS 7.5.1804 host using Ansible and OpenSCAP.

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Authors (1)

Russ McKendrick

Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations. He works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!

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