dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
This Ansible collection provides battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, nginx, MySQL
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 30 days ago, with 154 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides battle-tested Ansible roles for hardening Linux, SSH, nginx, and MySQL configurations.
- Ensures compliance with DevSec Inspec Baselines for consistent and secure system hardening.
- Use for automating security hardening on supported Linux distributions in production environments.
- Use for securing MySQL and MariaDB databases against common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
- Use for enforcing hardened SSH and nginx configurations to protect server access and web services.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
The roles are now part of the hardening-collection. We have kept the old releases of the
os-hardeningrole in this repository, so you can find the them by exploring older tags. The last release of the standalone role was 6.2.0.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
839+8
Open issues
94+9
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| dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening | 5.5K | — | 58 | 30 days ago |
| Category median | 13.5K | +1.4K | 60 | — |
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