Although there are many facets to AWX that would require much more space than we have in this book, one particular one stands out—the automation of routine tasks. Routine tasks that Ansible could handle might include patching of servers, running some kind of compliance check or audit, or enforcing a security policy.
For example, you could write an Ansible playbook to ensure that the SSH daemon does not allow remote root logins as this is considered a good security practice. It is, of course, easy for any system administrator with root privileges to log in and turn this back on; however, running an Ansible playbook regularly to turn this off enforces it and ensures no-one (well-meaning or otherwise) turns it back on. The idempotent nature of Ansible changes means that where the configuration is already in place, Ansible will not make any...
