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This Ansible collection provides battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, nginx, MySQL

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2020-12-31 · latest 2026-01-12

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  1. https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/blob... The changelogs contain a summary of actions and changes, and full changelogs go into detail.
    comment by observationist · 2026-01-12 · in Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL
  2. This has been my practice for 20+ years of running SSH, that and using Ansible to keep sshd hardened. https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/tree...
    comment by fak3r · 2025-01-18 · in Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
  3. An ansible collection for hardening Linux systems I mostly wrote: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening Another ansible collection to manage Icinga: https://github.com/T-Systems-MMS/ansible-collection-icinga-d... And the…
    comment by zufallsheld · 2023-06-16 · in Ask HN: What open-source projects are you currently contributing to and why?
  4. Have a look at https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
    comment by hakanderyal · 2022-01-19 · in Ask HN: How to secure Ubuntu VPS in 2022?
  5. …Chef). Covers SSH, NGINX, Apache, Windows hardening, MySQL, and Linux hardening. Free, to boot. https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
    comment by egberts1 · 2021-09-06 · in The Streisand project has been archived
  6. …ansible playbooks and roles that should cover this and more that is a good base for Linux servers: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
    comment by 3np · 2020-12-31 · in Linux Hardening Guide