In this chapter, we looked into the benefits of automation tools, both at the infrastructure level as well as configuration management level. One of the great approaches is to combine both these approaches so that we can have a seamless workflow. We also looked at how Terraform and Ansible integrate together to achieve this requirement. One of the good practices that should be followed is to go through the approach of pull requests and desired state. This will help us ensure that no unintended changes are being made to both infrastructure and at the operating system level.
In the next chapter, we will discuss the security assessment and mitigation level and will discuss primarily the vulnerability assessment and patch management approach for an organization.