Security Automation with Ansible 2

Summary

We have codified a fairly decent real-world stack for development using a combination of Ansible's features. By thinking about what goes in a LAMP stack overview, we can start by creating the roles. Once we have that thrashed out, the individual tasks are mapped to modules in Ansible. Any task that requires copying of a pre-defined configuration, but with dynamically-generated output, can be done by using variables in our templates and the constructs offered by Jinja2. 

We will use the same approach to various security-related setups that could do with a bit of automation for orchestration, operations, and so on. Once we have a handle on how to do this for a virtual machine running our laptop, it can be repurposed for deploying on ...