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Learn Ansible

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998758
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Russ McKendrick Russ McKendrick
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Chapter 13, Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP

  1. What effect does adding > to a multiline variable have?

The variable will be rendered as a single line when Ansible inserts it into the playbook run

  1. True or false: OpenSCAP is certified by NIST.

True

  1. Why are we telling Ansible to continue if the scan command is marked as failed?

Because the task will always fail if it doesn't get a 100% score

  1. Explain why we are using tags for certain roles.

So that we can run certain parts of the playbook when we use the --tags flag

  1. True or false: We use the copy command to copy HTML reports from the remote host to the Ansible controller.

False

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