From 72e8a40ccdcbf9b6683a92bbf2dbe99aeca0b86d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Spransy Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:39:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Change neccesssary to necessary --- index.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 732d4a1516..18bbdfab93 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ of control. Further, it was designed for deploying multi-node applications from

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Compared with most configuration managememnt tools, Ansible is also much more secure. While most configuration management tools use a daemon, running as root with full access to the system, with its own in-house developed PKI infrastructure, Ansible just uses SSH (and supports sudo as neccesssary). There is no additional attack surface and OpenSSH is one of the most peer reviewed security components out there. +

Compared with most configuration managememnt tools, Ansible is also much more secure. While most configuration management tools use a daemon, running as root with full access to the system, with its own in-house developed PKI infrastructure, Ansible just uses SSH (and supports sudo as necessary). There is no additional attack surface and OpenSSH is one of the most peer reviewed security components out there. If a central server containing your playbooks are comprimised, your nodes are not – which is NOT the case of these other tools, which can, more or less, turn into a botnet. Our security approach is to avoid writing custom crypto code altogether, and rely on the most secure part of the Linux/Unix subsystem that your machines are already using. There is no PKI subsystem to maintain, which can be a frequent source of problems, particularly when reinstalling or migrating @@ -452,4 +452,4 @@ Puppet Labs, and is now with