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Automated Remediation and Compliance

In this lab, you'll create a deployment, move it into a non-compliant state, and then use Ansible to restore your infrastructure to its desired configuration. Once confirmed, you'll use Terraform to reliably and easily bring down the entire stack.

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Level
Advanced
Last updated
Apr 23, 2026
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Execute configuration remediation with Ansible
    • Run the Ansible playbook to enforce configuration changes across the nodes
    • Review the output to confirm that changes are applied only to non-compliant hosts
    • Verify that the system is brought back into a compliant state
  2. Challenge

    Verify configuration compliance
    • Run the Ansible playbook in --check mode to audit the environment
    • Confirm that no changes are required for any nodes
    • Log into a node and manually verify that the enforced settings are correct
  3. Challenge

    Finalize and clean up the deployment
    • Commit the final configuration changes to the Git repository
    • Understand how version control supports tracking and auditing changes
    • Use Terraform to destroy the infrastructure and clean up the environment
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