openstack/ansible-hardening
Code Issues Proposed changes
ansible-hardening/doc/source/index.rst
Major Hayden 0c0767b3f1
Queens doc updates + removal of RHEL 6 STIG 
This patch begins the teardown of the RHEL 6 STIG content from the
ansible-hardening repository. It will still be maintained in
Pike and earlier branches.

This patch also updates the ansible-hardening documentation for the
Queens release and notes that Pike is the latest stable version.

Closes-Bug: 1715745
Change-Id: Iaae52c97a35d82dd807ef78a1a6593ce3aa33540
2017-09-12 08:19:54 -06:00

4.7 KiB
Raw Blame History

Automated security hardening for Linux hosts with Ansible

ansible-hardening logo

What does the role do?

The ansible-hardening Ansible role uses industry-standard security hardening guides to secure Linux hosts. Although the role is designed to work well in OpenStack environments that are deployed with OpenStack-Ansible, it can be used with almost any Linux system.

It all starts with the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), part of the United States Department of Defense. The guide is released with a public domain license and it is commonly used to secure systems at public and private organizations around the world.

Each configuration from the STIG is analyzed to determine what impact it could have on a live production environment and how to implement it in Ansible. Tasks are added to the role that configure a host to meet the configuration requirement. Each task is documented to explain what was changed, why it was changed, and what deployers need to understand about the change.

Deployers have the option to pick and choose which configurations are applied using Ansible variables and tags. Some tasks allow deployers to provide custom configurations to tighten down or relax certain requirements.

OpenStack Summit Boston 2017 Talk

This talk covers the latest updates from the project and a live demo. Slides from the talk are available for download.

Documentation

The following documentation applies to the Queens release (currently under active development). Documentation for the latest stable and previous stable releases is found within the Releases section below.

getting-started.rst deviations.rst faq.rst domains.rst controls-rhel7.rst developer-guide.rst

Releases

Deployers should use the latest stable release for all production deployments.

Queens

  • Status: Active development
  • Supported Operating Systems:
    • CentOS 7
    • Debian 8 Jessie
    • Fedora 26
    • openSUSE Leap 42.2 and 42.3
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (partial automated test coverage)
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (experimental)
    • Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
  • Documentation:

Pike

  • Status: Latest stable release (released: September 2017)
  • Supported Operating Systems:
    • CentOS 7
    • Debian 8 Jessie
    • Fedora 26
    • openSUSE Leap 42.2 and 42.3
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (partial automated test coverage)
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (experimental)
    • Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty (Deprecated)
    • Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
  • Documentation:

Ocata

Newton