Security Automation with Ansible 2

Operating system hardening for baseline using an Ansible playbook

Till now, we have created multiple playbooks to perform certain operations. Now, we will see how we can use existing playbooks from the community (Ansible Galaxy).

Hardening Framework is a project by Deutsche Telekom to manage thousands of servers for security, compliance, and maintenance. The goal of this project is to create a common layer for hardening operating systems and services easily.

If your organization is using chef or puppet tools as configuration management tools, the concepts are completely the same. You can find related cookbooks and details at http://dev-sec.io.

The following playbook provides multiple security configurations, standards, and ways to protect ...