Enhancing Secure Deployment with Ansible: A Focus on Least Privilege and Automation for Linux
Résumé
As organisations increasingly adopt Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ensuring secure deployment practices becomes paramount. Ansible is a well-known open-source and modular tool for automating IT management tasks. However, Ansible is subject to supply-chain attacks that can compromise all managed hosts. This article presents a semi-automated process that improves Ansible-based deployments to have fine-grained control on administrative privileges granted to Ansible tasks. We describe the integration of the RootAsRole framework to Ansible. Finally, we analyse the limit of the current implementation.
Domaines
Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]Origine | Publication financée par une institution |
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