{"product_id":"9781788398725","title":"Security Automation with Ansible 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAutomate security-related tasks in a structured, modular fashion using the best open source automation tool available\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout This Book\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeverage the agentless, push-based power of Ansible 2 to automate security tasks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn to write playbooks that apply security to any part of your system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis recipe-based guide will teach you to use Ansible 2 for various use cases such as fraud detection, network security, governance, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003cp\u003eIf you are a system administrator or a DevOps engineer with responsibility for finding loop holes in your system or application, then this book is for you. It's also useful for security consultants looking to automate their infrastructure's security model.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and templating to build generic, testable playbooks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManage Linux and Windows hosts remotely in a repeatable and predictable manner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSee how to perform security patch management, and security hardening with scheduling and automation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet up AWS Lambda for a serverless automated defense\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun continuous security scans against your hosts and automatically fix and harden the gaps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtend Ansible to write your custom modules and use them as part of your already existing security automation programs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerform automation security audit checks for applications using Ansible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManage secrets in Ansible using Ansible Vault\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIn Detail\u003cp\u003eSecurity automation is one of the most interesting skills to have nowadays. Ansible allows you to write automation procedures once and use them across your entire infrastructure. This book will teach you the best way to use Ansible for seemingly complex tasks by using the various building blocks available and creating solutions that are easy to teach others, store for later, perform version control on, and repeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe'll start by covering various popular modules and writing simple playbooks to showcase those modules. You'll see how this can be applied over a variety of platforms and operating systems, whether they are Windows\/Linux bare metal servers or containers on a cloud platform. Once the bare bones automation is in place, you'll learn how to leverage tools such as Ansible Tower or even Jenkins to create scheduled repeatable processes around security patching, security hardening, compliance reports, monitoring of systems, and so on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving on, you'll delve into useful security automation techniques and approaches, and learn how to extend Ansible for enhanced security. While on the way, we will tackle topics like how to manage secrets, how to manage all the playbooks that we will create and how to enable collaboration using Ansible Galaxy. In the final stretch, we'll tackle how to extend the modules of Ansible for our use, and do all the previous tasks in a programmatic manner to get even more powerful automation frameworks and rigs.\u003c\/p\u003eStyle and approach\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive guide will teach you to manage Linux and Windows hosts remotely in a repeatable and predictable manner. The book takes an in-depth approach and helps you understand how to set up complicated stacks of software with codified and easy-to-share best practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158990373104,"sku":"9781788398725","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781788398725_p0.jpg?v=1763740044","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781788398725","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}