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Learn Ansible

By : Russ McKendrick
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Learn Ansible

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security. By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

OpenSCAP

We are going to be looking at one of a set of tools maintained by Red Hat called OpenSCAP. Before we continue, I feel I should warn you that the next section is going to contain a lot of abbreviations, starting with SCAP.

So, what is SCAP? The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is an open standard that encompasses several components, all of which are open standards themselves, to build a framework that allows you to automatically assess and remediate your hosts against the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53.

This publication is a catalog of controls that is applied to all U.S. federal IT systems, apart from those maintained by the National Security Agency (NSA). These controls have been put in place to help implement the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) across U.S federal departments.

SCAP...