Preface

Welcome to Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux, your guide to a collection of the most valuable processes, methodologies, and tools for streamlining and efficiently managing your Linux deployments at enterprise scale. This book will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to standardize your Linux estate and manage it at scale, using open source tools including Ansible, AWX (Ansible Tower), Pulp, Katello, and OpenSCAP. You will learn about the creation of standard operating environments, and how to define, document, manage, and maintain these standards using Ansible. In addition, you will acquire knowledge of security hardening standards, such as the CIS Benchmarks. Throughout the book, practical, hands-on examples will be provided for you to try for yourself, on which you can build your own code, and to demonstrate the principles being covered.