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Auditing Continuous Drift with Ansible
Before applying any corrective changes to your non-compliant Ansible-managed infrastructure, you should use the available diagnostic tools. So in this lab you will perform a detailed assessment of the divergent state of your containers.
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Challenge
Initiate a non-destructive audit using the Configuration Management tool's check mode across the cluster
- Execute the primary Ansible playbook using the mandatory
--checkflag. - Ensure the
--diffflag is also used to display granular details of the deviation. - Run the check to identify whether the target system is compliant or non-compliant.
- Execute the primary Ansible playbook using the mandatory
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Challenge
Analyze and isolate the drift violation by interpreting the granular output of the audit
- Review the output and identify the specific task(s) that reported a change status in check mode.
- Precisely locate the lines in the
--diffoutput showing the unauthorized changes made in the previous lab. - Translate the technical diff output into a plain-language compliance violation summary.
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Challenge
Generate a formal compliance report from the audit findings for governance and handover
- Summarize audit findings to support a compliance or drift report.
- Use the audit log or
--diffoutput to describe the identified violation. - Describe how audit results can be used in compliance reporting and operational workflows.
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