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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we created a playbook that generated a playbook to remediate any PCI-DSS non-compliance errors found during a scan. As well as being really cool, it is also really practical if you imagine you are running a few dozen servers that all need to be compliant, and also that they all need a full audit history.

You now have the foundations of a playbook that you can use to target those hosts daily, to both audit them and store the results away from the host itself, but also depending on your configuration, you have a way of automatically resolving any non-conformance found during the scan.

The scans we have been doing in this chapter have all been host-based; in the next chapter, we are going to look at how we can scan hosts remotely.