Security Automation with Ansible 2

Preface

IT is undergoing a massive paradigm shift. From a time where uptime was a measure of IT success, we are moving to the idea of immutable infrastructure, where, based on the requirements, we can spin up and trash a server on demand automatically. Ansible is playing a lead role in this transformation. It has become the tool of choice for companies big and small for tasks that are meant for one server to entire clusters.

This book is about security automation. We apply our knowledge of Ansible to different scenarios and workloads that revolve around security, hence the title. When boring and mundane tasks are automated, people doing those tasks can focus on solving the security problems they are dealing with. This enables a whole new ...