Security Automation with Ansible 2

ElastAlert for alerting

First, we need to install the prerequisites for setting up ElastAlert. Then we will add the configuration files to perform alerting based on the rules:

- name: installing pre requisuites for elastalert  apt:    name: "{{ item }}"    state: present    update_cache: yes  with_items:    - python-pip    - python-dev    - libffi-dev    - libssl-dev    - python-setuptools    - build-essential- name: installing elastalert  pip:    name: elastalert- name: creating elastalert directories  file:     path: "{{ item }}"    state: directory    mode: 0755  with_items:    - /opt/elastalert/rules    - /opt/elastalert/config- name: creating elastalert configuration  template:    src: "{{ item.src }}"    dest: "{{ item.dst }}"  with_items:    - { src: 'elastalert-config.j2', dst: '/opt/elastalert/config/config.yml' ...