Linux Configuration Management Checklist

Host Access:

  • root account
  • site-admin account (eg Ansible user)
  • pam_access
  • sshd
  • domain membership
  • Pam misc (eg oddjob-mkhomedir)
  • password policies
  • hosts.allow

Monitoring

  • telegraf
  • rsyslog
  • journald
  • nagios client
  • Landscape Client
  • custom fact generation, reporting scripts

Host Configuration

  • MOTD / issue
  • DNS resolution
  • network time
  • proxy (apt, snap, docker, pollinate)
  • mail delivery
  • Firewall

Software

  • local repositories
  • automatic patching

Services

  • Apache / LAMP
  • Docker

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