Summary

Automation frameworks such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, and Chef can be easily used to manage SELinux settings on a multitude of systems. While not all frameworks can deal with SELinux settings natively, this is easily mitigated by either using community-provided modules or by creating custom rules that check and update the settings accordingly. In this chapter, we've seen how to accomplish this by installing a custom, CIL-based SELinux policy.

We learned that these frameworks all have their specific approaches. Ansible, for instance, does not use any software installations on remote systems and communicates with the target systems using SSH. The other frameworks all use an agent/server model but have their own views on configuring settings (the syntax between Puppet and SaltStack is noticeably different) or design (Chef uses a workstation where developers have their development environment). All these frameworks are easily put in place and configured and can handle...