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Use Ansible modules to harden our image - Packer Tutorial
From the course: Learning HashiCorp Packer
Use Ansible modules to harden our image
- [Instructor] Building images allows us to reduce launch times by pre-installing platform tooling, such as monitoring services, log shippers or language runtimes. But a second advantage is that we can specify a minimum sort of configuration that has to be present on each machine. This is valuable for adhering to compliance and a minimum level of security. We can then take this image, built to our standard requirements, and use it as a base image for further Packer images. So, instead of building on a fresh Ubuntu image, provided by Canonical, we can build upon an Ubuntu image pre-configured by ourselves. You may already have some hardening scripts and you could reuse them. With Ansible, we can use community-provided playbooks, and in this video we're going to use those provided by dev-sec.io. So, we're going to harden the operating system level and then also harden SSH. They provide these down here, on the bottom: some options in Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. We're going to use the…
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