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You're reading from Security Automation with Ansible 2 Leverage Ansible 2 to automate complex security tasks like application security, network security, and malware analysis

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788394512

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Application Security

Authors (2):

Akash Mahajan

AKULA

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles

2. Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Other Automation Tools FREE CHAPTER

3. Setting Up a Hardened WordPress with Encrypted Automated Backups

4. Log Monitoring and Serverless Automated Defense (Elastic Stack in AWS)

5. Automating Web Application Security Testing Using OWASP ZAP

6. Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus

7. Security Hardening for Applications and Networks

8. Continuous Security Scanning for Docker Containers

9. Automating Lab Setups for Forensics Collection and Malware Analysis

10. Writing an Ansible Module for Security Testing

11. Ansible Security Best Practices, References, and Further Reading

What if you don't want to roll your own? The Trellis stack

Trellis stack is a way for development teams to have a local staging and production setup for WordPress websites.

Note

Trellis is an open source MIT license set of Ansible playbooks for a WordPress LEMP stack.

Why would we use Trellis, and when is it a good idea to use it?

Trellis is a full-fledged project, based on various tools held together by Ansible. In many ways, it is a better alternative to using the playbook for this chapter.

If you are expected to build/develop, deploy, and then maintain the production of a WordPress website or websites, then Trellis is a good choice.

The only caveat is that a lot of the features available are more useful if there is a team doing development and deployment. Otherwise, the stack is opinionated, and you may be saddled with some software choices that you may not like.