ansible-hardening/README.md

ansible-hardening

The ansible-hardening role applies security hardening configurations from the Security Technical Implementation Guide(STIG) to systems running the following distributions:

• CentOS 7
• Debian Jessie (experimental)
• Ubuntu 14.04 (deprecated)
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

For more details, review the ansible-hardening documentation.

Requirements

This role can be used with or without the OpenStack-Ansible role. It requires Ansible 1.9.1 or later.

Role Variables

All of the variables for this role are in defaults/main.yml.

Dependencies

This role has no dependencies.

Example Playbook

Using the role is fairly straightforward:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - ansible-hardening

Running with Vagrant

This role can be tested easily on multiple platforms using Vagrant.

The Vagrantfile supports testing on:

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• CentOS 7

To test on all platforms:

vagrant destroy --force && vagrant up

To test on Ubuntu 14.04 only:

vagrant destroy ubuntu1404 --force && vagrant up ubuntu1404

To test on Ubuntu 16.04 only:

vagrant destroy ubuntu1604 --force && vagrant up ubuntu1604

To test on CentOS 7 only:

vagrant destroy centos7 --force && vagrant up centos7

License

Apache 2.0

Author Information

For more information, join #openstack-ansible on Freenode.