Learning Puppet Security

Example – using Puppet to secure openssh

Now that we've got the system set up for our use, we can finally approach the main example for this chapter. In this example, we're going to use what has traditionally been one of the first things used to show off Puppet and install SSH. However, in this case, we're going to use a hardened configuration utilizing some options recommended by the security community.

The example of securing SSH is one that we will return to several times in this book as we expand upon our configuration management toolkit and branch out into things such as firewall management.

Starting the Vagrant virtual machine

Since this is our first time using Vagrant, we'll cover how to start a virtual machine. In the directory with the ...