If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook
Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal

ISBN: 978-1-78829-582-6

• Use Ansible Vault to protect secrets
• Understand how Ansible modules interact with cloud providers to manage resources
• Build cloud-based resources for your application
• Create resources beyond simple virtual machines
• Write tasks that can be reused to create resources multiple times
• Work with self-hosted clouds such as OpenStack and Docker
• Deploy a multi-tier application on various cloud providers

Security Automation with Ansible 2
Madhu Akula, Akash Mahajan

ISBN: 978-1-78839-451-2

• Use Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and templating to build generic, testable playbooks
• Manage Linux and Windows hosts remotely in a repeatable and predictable manner
• See how to perform security patch management, and security hardening with scheduling and automation
• Set up AWS Lambda for a serverless automated defense
• Run continuous security scans against your hosts and automatically fix and harden the gaps
• Extend Ansible to write your custom modules and use them as part of your already existing security automation programs
• Perform automation security audit checks for applications using Ansible
• Manage secrets in Ansible using Ansible Vault