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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...

Key benefits

? Leverage the agentless, push-based power of Ansible 2 to automate security tasks

? Learn to write playbooks that apply security to any part of your system

? This recipe-based guide will teach you to use Ansible 2 for various use cases such as fraud detection, network security, governance, and more

Description

Security automation is one of the most interesting skills to have nowadays. Ansible allows you to write automation procedures once and use them across your entire infrastructure. This book will teach you the best way to use Ansible for seemingly complex tasks by using the various building blocks available and creating solutions that are easy to teach others, store for later, perform version control on, and repeat. We’ll start by covering various popular modules and writing simple playbooks to showcase those modules. You’ll see how this can be applied over a variety of platforms and operating systems, whether they are Windows/Linux bare metal servers or containers on a cloud platform. Once the bare bones automation is in place, you’ll learn how to leverage tools such as Ansible Tower or even Jenkins to create scheduled repeatable processes around security patching, security hardening, compliance reports, monitoring of systems, and so on. Moving on, you’ll delve into useful security automation techniques and approaches, and learn how to extend Ansible for enhanced security. While on the way, we will tackle topics like how to manage secrets, how to manage all the playbooks that we will create and how to enable collaboration using Ansible Galaxy. In the final stretch, we’ll tackle how to extend the modules of Ansible for our use, and do all the previous tasks in a programmatic manner to get even more powerful automation frameworks and rigs.

What you will learn

- Use Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and templating to build generic, testable playbooks

- Manage Linux and Windows hosts remotely in a repeatable and predictable manner

- See how to perform security patch management, and security hardening with scheduling and automation

- Set up AWS Lambda for a serverless automated defense

- Run continuous security scans against your hosts and automatically fix and harden the gaps

- Extend Ansible to write your custom modules and use them as part of your already existing security automation programs

- Perform automation security audit checks for applications using Ansible

- Manage secrets in Ansible using Ansible Vault

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Raja Apr 06, 2018

A good book for those who are going start Security Automation or who are already practising it. The authors take care almost every aspect of Information Security related task in a simple understandable and practical way. It could be used as a pocket reference to understanding and implementing security related tasks like auditing, vulnerable assessments, testing, cloud security, malware and forensic analysis in an automated fashion.

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Adeline atabong Oct 21, 2018

This book is absolute my favorite ansible book purchase.I have purchased a lot of books for ansible as a beginner with very limited knowledge of ansible. The security task worked like a charm for me tried each and every task as i read through the book. The book was very easy to understand,I recommend this book to anyone looking to get a good understanding of security automation.

Tamizh Jun 08, 2018

If you are a CyberSecurity professional trying your hand at automation or looking to automate new avenues in your operations, do not miss this book. It is quite extensive in scope and examples. You won't find many topics on security automation that aren't covered in this book.The book starts with a brief introduction on Ansible, its setup and works its way up to complex workflows, covering all major aspects of security automation. Some of the workflows discussed in the book includes- hardening various types of application deployments, continuous scanning for CICD workflow using Jenkins and OWASP ZAP, automated vulnerability scanning using Nessus, continuous security scans using OpenScap, vulnerability assessments of docker containers and cloud deployments. The book even goes on to discuss peripheral topics such as setup workflows for malware analysis, openstack, debops (Debian-based Data Center), private VPN using algo, anti-censorship software (Streisand) etc., Even if you are a practising expert on security automation, you will find something new to learn or inspired to use.If I have any suggestions, I would love to see some of these examples distilled into abstract policies or best practices for DevSec automation. “The practice of System and Network Administration” by Limoncelli is the golden standard for practical IT related writing. In their own words, their book sets out to discuss “those principles and ideas of system administration which do not change on a day-to-day basis”. Too much focus on existing tools can potentially affect the longevity of the book. Admittedly this is somewhat harder to do for a field which is still nascent and unpredictable.

hemant rajput Mar 22, 2018

The book Explains all the concepts well. It's a good read you will find it easy to understand everything written in the book.Highly recommended

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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