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Security Automation with Ansible 2

You're reading from   Security Automation with Ansible 2 Leverage Ansible 2 to automate complex security tasks like application security, network security, and malware analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394512
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akash Mahajan Akash Mahajan
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Akash Mahajan
MADHU AKULA MADHU AKULA
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Preface 1. Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles FREE CHAPTER 2. Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Other Automation Tools 3. Setting Up a Hardened WordPress with Encrypted Automated Backups 4. Log Monitoring and Serverless Automated Defense (Elastic Stack in AWS) 5. Automating Web Application Security Testing Using OWASP ZAP 6. Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus 7. Security Hardening for Applications and Networks 8. Continuous Security Scanning for Docker Containers 9. Automating Lab Setups for Forensics Collection and Malware Analysis 10. Writing an Ansible Module for Security Testing 11. Ansible Security Best Practices, References, and Further Reading

Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Other Automation Tools

Ansible is powerful. Once you realize the innumerable benefits of writing down a way to configure and provision systems, you will never want to go back. In fact, you may want to go ahead and write playbooks for complex cloud environments to deploying stacks for data scientists. The rule of thumb is if you can script it, you can create a playbook for it. 

Let's assume that you have gone ahead and done just that. Build different playbooks for a variety of scenarios. If you see the advantages of codifying how infrastructure is built and provisioned, you will obviously want to put your playbooks under version control:

Multiple playbooks stored under version control, ready to be deployed to systems for provisioning

At this point, we have solved interesting challenges surrounding automation:

  • We now have the ability...
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