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Using Ansible Modules to Manage Security in Your Environment

Security is paramount in many industries today. Ansible can help make sure your environment is set up as your security office requires by pushing out changes and ensuring that current settings are live. In this lab, we'll practice firewall and SELinux configuration.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Published
Clock icon Oct 18, 2019

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Ensure Ports 80 and 22 Are Open on Webservers

    Your playbook should look similar to the following:

    ```
    ---
    - name: webserver firewall rules
      hosts: webservers
      become: yes
    
      tasks:
       - name: ssh firewall rules
         firewalld:
          permanent: yes
          state: enabled
          immediate: yes
          service: ssh
    
       - name: http firewall rules
         firewalld:
          permanent: yes
          state: enabled
          immediate: yes
          service: http
    ```
    
  2. Challenge

    Ensure Ports 5432 and 22 Are Open on dbservers

    Your playbook should contain something similar to the following:

    ```
    - name: Set up firewalls on dbservers
      hosts: dbservers
      become: yes
    
      tasks:
       - name: ssh firewall rules
         firewalld:
          permanent: yes
          state: enabled
          immediate: yes
          service: ssh
    
       - name: postgres rules
         firewalld:
          permanent: yes
          state: enabled
          immediate: yes
          service: postgresql
    ```
    
  3. Challenge

    Enable SELinux on All Servers

    Your playbook should look similar to the following:

    ```
    - name: SELinux
      hosts: all
      become: yes
    
      tasks:
       - name: Enable SELinux
         selinux:
          state: enforcing
          policy: targeted
    ```
    

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