Security automation use cases

Now that once we have the tools set up, let's go through some of the standard tasks that allow us to do useful things with them. In case you haven't noticed, we love lists. Here is a list of tasks that will prepare you to build layers of automation for the stuff that is important to you:

1. Adding playbooks or connecting your source code management (SCM) tools, such as GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket
2. Authentication and data security
3. Logging output and managing reports for the automation jobs
4. Job scheduling
5. Alerting, notifications, and webhooks

Adding playbooks

When starting out, either we would like to add our custom playbooks to the IT automation tools or we may be adding them to SCM tools such as GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket. We will configure and add our playbooks to all of the three tools being discussed here.

Ansible Tower configuration

Ansible Tower has multiple features to add playbooks to perform scheduling and execution. We will see how we can add custom written playbooks...