Chapter 14 - CIS Hardening with Ansible

1. The modules wrap up a whole set of shell scripting functionality, including the conditionals that would be required to ensure that the script only makes changes when required and can report back on whether the change was made and whether it was successful.
2. There are several ways—you can run the entire playbook with the --limit parameter set, or you can use the when clause within the playbook to ensure that the tasks only run on given hostnames.
3. Name your tasks after the benchmark (including the number) so you can easily identify what they are for. Also, include the level and scoring detail to make it easy to interpret and audit results from playbook runs.
4. Tag the tasks as level1 and level2 accordingly, and then run the playbook with the --tags level1 parameter.
5. The --tags parameter only runs tasks with the tags specified, whereas...