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Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux

By : James Freeman
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Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux

By: James Freeman

Overview of this book

Automation is paramount if you want to run Linux in your enterprise effectively. It helps you minimize costs by reducing manual operations, ensuring compliance across data centers, and accelerating deployments for your cloud infrastructures. Complete with detailed explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will teach you how to manage your Linux estate and leverage Ansible to achieve effective levels of automation. You'll learn important concepts on standard operating environments that lend themselves to automation, and then build on this knowledge by applying Ansible to achieve standardization throughout your Linux environments. By the end of this Linux automation book, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage an entire estate of Linux servers with higher reliability and lower overheads than ever before.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Core Concepts
5
Section 2: Standardizing Your Linux Servers
10
Section 3: Day-to-Day Management
16
Section 4: Securing Your Linux Servers

Evaluating and selecting policies

OpenSCAP and its related tools are by themselves engines—they cannot actually help you to audit your environment without a security policy against which to scan. As we explored in Chapter 13, Using CIS Benchmarks, there are numerous security standards for Linux, and in this book, we have considered in depth the CIS Benchmarks. Sadly, this standard is not currently available for audit through OpenSCAP, though many other security policies are that would be well suited to securing your infrastructure. Also, as OpenSCAP and its policies are entirely open source, there is nothing to stop you from creating your own policy for whatever requirements you have.

There are plenty of security standards available for you to freely download and audit your infrastructure against, and in the next section, we will look at the primary one that you will most...