Learn Ansible - Second Edition

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Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible

One of the advantages of using an orchestration and configuration tool such as Ansible is that it can be utilized to generate and deploy a complex set of configurations in a repeatable task across many hosts. In this chapter, we will look at a tool that scans your hosts using Ansible, dynamically generates a remediation playbook, and then runs it for you.

We will also look at running two different security tools that scan the WordPress installation we have used throughout the previous chapters.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• The scanning tools
• The playbook

Technical requirements

Following our excursion into the cloud, we will return to our local machine and launch an Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine ...