Ansible 2 For Security Automation And Implementing Devops

Learn Ansible 2 and perform security automation, CI/CD for software delivery using DevOps with Ansible.

What you'll learn

Configure and manage your infrastructure using Ansible Playbooks.

Perform SSH hardening and manage SSH users with Ansible.

Deal with SELinux at a more advanced level.

Create task Blocks and choose the right Ansible Strategy for the job.

Integrate Ansible with various Cloud Providers such as AWS and OpenStack.

Design every step in the DevOps pipeline, from code check-in to deployment.

Deploy and configure your own Git repository server to serve as the basis for your DevOps pipeline.

Build virtual machines to automate testing and deploying your applications.

Create a containerized application by using Ansible to build custom Docker images.

Deploy a virtualized or containerized application and automatically and safely roll out updates.

Requirements

No prior basic Knowledge of Ansible is required.

Description

Ansible is a simple, open source, IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible helps take software updates from testing to deployment in a short period of time. It is a great solution for orchestrating DevOps pipelines. Whether you want to manage an entire cloud region, configure network devices, or orchestrate configuration changes across Linux or Windows machines, Ansible is up to the challenge!This comprehensive 3-in-1 course follows a practical, informative, step-by-step approach to safeguard your system with advanced features of Ansible as well as automate your DevOps and Continuous Delivery software delivery process. You’ll begin with configuring and managing your infrastructure using Ansible Playbooks. You’ll then integrate Ansible with various Cloud Providers such as AWS and OpenStack. Moving further, you’ll build virtual machines to automate testing and deploying your applications. Finally, you’ll create and deploy a containerized application by using Ansible to build custom Docker images.Towards the end of this course, you'll learn Ansible 2 and perform security automation, CI/CD for software delivery using DevOps with Ansible.Contents and OverviewThis training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.The first course, Ansible 2 for Beginners, covers automating manual tasks for your organization with ease using the highly reliable Ansible 2. In this course, you will get started with Ansible 2.0, including its installation, the problems it solves, and more. We will also walk through creating your very first playbooks. You’ll understand the power of variables and quickly be able to manage environments and implement strategies. You will find out how to integrate with different cloud platforms and be introduced to Ansible Galaxy and Tower, which are Ansible's enterprise tooling for supporting large-scale infrastructure. By the end of this course, you will be well versed in the basics of Ansible and be able to automate your organizational infrastructure easily.The second course, Ansible 2: Advancements with Security Automation, covers safeguarding your system with advanced features of Ansible 2. The course starts with basic Ansible concepts and later progresses to the advanced features of Ansible 2. You'll start with the usage of Ansible with non-Linux targets, before then moving on to discuss some advanced uses of Ansible Tower. Ansible Tower makes it easy to control the way your infrastructure is configured via configuration definitions and continuous remediation. Next, we will look at secure user management with Ansible managing multiple user and different permissions. We will be closely looking at more complex hardening with STIG and CIS.The third course, Hands-On DevOps with Ansible, covers automating your DevOps and Continuous Delivery software delivery process using Ansible 2.x. In this course, we show how a DevOps pipeline can speed up your software development. We will use DevOps practices to automate your building and testing environments to push software into production. You will use Ansible to automate your DevOps pipeline. Whether you test and deploy applications on-premise or in the cloud, and whether you build full systems or containers with Docker and Kubernetes, by the end of the course you will be able to develop and deploy reliable applications with speed using Ansible.Towards the end of this course, you'll learn Ansible 2 and perform security automation, CI/CD for software delivery using DevOps with Ansible.About the AuthorsDavid Cohen: I've been a system administrator, platform engineer, DevOps engineer, and software developer in everything from small businesses to growing companies (100+ employees) and large tech/engineering firms (10,000+ employees). Most of my work has centered on Linux and UNIX system administration, web security, and software development in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and Go. I've also done stranger things like helping to design two Tier-4 data centers and being an Infantryman (not at the same time). On my tutorial Linux YouTube channel, I've helped tens of thousands of people learn the basics (and not-so-basics) of system administration, DevOps, and software engineering.Anish Nath is a developer, author, and a hacker who is willing to contribute and learn. He is an active member of StackOverflow and a DevOps Engineer. He has expertise as a security advocate and security architect. He is experienced in handling security issues such as performing white-hat hacking. He is a community-oriented developer.Alan Hohn is a Software Architect who primarily works in Java, Go, and Python. He has a lot of experience re-architecting embedded systems and in combining embedded and enterprise approaches. Currently, he works as a Lockheed Martin Fellow encouraging the adoption of virtualization, DevOps, and cloud technologies. This also means that he frequently tries out new technologies and new approaches. He enjoys teaching on technical topics and enjoys hearing from those who find his courses useful. He is employed by Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems and his personal blog is called Variegated.

Overview

Section 1: Ansible 2 for Beginners

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 What Is Ansible?

Lecture 3 Why Ansible?

Lecture 4 Demonstration – From Bash to Ansible

Lecture 5 Course Layout

Lecture 6 Basic Ansible Vocabulary

Lecture 7 New Features in Ansible 2.0

Lecture 8 Creating an Ansible Home Base

Lecture 9 Installing Virtualbox and Creating an Ubuntu Virtual Machine

Lecture 10 Installing Ansible

Lecture 11 Setting up our Test Environment

Lecture 12 Target Machine Requirements

Lecture 13 Ansible Configuration Hierarchy

Lecture 14 Ansible Hosts Inventory File

Lecture 15 Ad-Hoc Commands

Lecture 16 Introduction top playbooks

Lecture 17 Playbook Structure

Lecture 18 Introduction to Modules

Lecture 19 Common Modules

Lecture 20 Variables and Facts

Lecture 21 Real-Life Playbook: Mattermost Deployment

Lecture 22 Real-Life Playbook Walkthrough

Lecture 23 Debugging and Troubleshooting

Lecture 24 Conditionals and Control Flow

Lecture 25 Templating, Control Flow, and Iteration in Jinja2

Lecture 26 YAML Basics

Lecture 27 Ansible Blocks

Lecture 28 Performance and Execution Strategies

Lecture 29 Ansible Galaxy

Lecture 30 Security

Lecture 31 Ansible in the Cloud

Lecture 32 Ansible AWS Demo

Lecture 33 Ansible Tower

Section 2: Ansible 2: Advancements with Security Automation

Lecture 34 The Course Overview

Lecture 35 User Management With Ansible - Part 1

Lecture 36 User Management with Ansible - Part 2

Lecture 37 Httpd Hardening-Part 1

Lecture 38 Httpd Hardening-Part 2

Lecture 39 Hardening With Sysctl

Lecture 40 Hardening Process

Lecture 41 Hardening Software Updates Warning Banners and Remove Services

Lecture 42 rootkit Detections and Protections

Lecture 43 Ansible Tower System Tracking

Lecture 44 Ansible Dynamic Inventory

Lecture 45 Ansible Tower LDAP Integration

Lecture 46 How to Enforce Governance with Ansible-Part 1

Lecture 47 How to Enforce Governance with Ansible-Part 2

Lecture 48 Running Ansible on Windows

Lecture 49 Managing Windows Using Ansible and Ansible Support for Network Devices

Section 3: Hands-On DevOps with Ansible

Lecture 50 The Course Overview

Lecture 51 Understanding the Complete Ansible DevOps Pipeline

Lecture 52 The Need for DevOps

Lecture 53 Automating the Automation

Lecture 54 Taking Software from Artifacts to Deployment

Lecture 55 Using Packer with Ansible and AWS

Lecture 56 Writing and Using Ansible Roles

Lecture 57 Using Ansible Templates and Variables

Lecture 58 Working with Ansible Vault

Lecture 59 Deploying to AWS Production

Lecture 60 Ansible and AWS Rolling Updates

Lecture 61 Integrating Ansible and Vagrant

Lecture 62 Virtual Testing Using Vagrant

Lecture 63 Virtualized Test with Ansible and AWS

Lecture 64 Run Tests Using Ansible and Jenkins

Lecture 65 Building Docker Containers with Ansible

Lecture 66 Running Docker Containers

Lecture 67 Using Ansible Docker Push

Lecture 68 Docker Rolling Updates

Lecture 69 Integration Testing Using Docker

Lecture 70 Connecting Ansible to Kubernetes

Lecture 71 Understanding Kubernetes Deployments

Lecture 72 Integration Testing with Kubernetes and Ansible

Lecture 73 Using Ansible to Deploy to Kubernetes

Lecture 74 Kubernetes Rolling Updates

This course is perfect for:,System Administrators, Developers and IT professionals who not only want to automate their organization’s infrastructure using Ansible but also implement a fully automated DevOps pipeline.