Joerg Kastning

Husband, Father, Sysadmin, Blogger, Open Source Enthusiast and 1x Engineer.

    Proof of Concept: Use Ansible to manage the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE)

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    Photo by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash

    This is the follow-up article to my Introduction to the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE). It presents a Proof of Concept (PoC) that shows how AIDE can be remotely controlled using an Ansible role. Knowledge of the introductory article is assumed. Basic Ansible knowledge, such as the use of Ansible roles and the execution of […]

    Introduction to the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE)

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    This introduction provides answers to the following questions: For this introduction I used RHEL 9 as my operating system of choice, but AIDE is available for other Linux distributions as well. In order to follow this introduction, you should be familiar with the basics of Linux system administration and at least know the following terms: […]

    Automatically update containers with podman-auto-update

    Photo by Timelab on Unsplash In this tutorial I will show you how to configure automatic updates for containers in rootless Podman environments and how systemd manages these containers as services. The tutorial is divided into the following sections: If you are not interested in the possible use cases and would rather start right away, […]