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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.
Lab Info
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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
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Challenge
Verify configuration compliance
- Run the Ansible playbook in
--checkmode 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
- Run the Ansible playbook in
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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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