Automating CIS and RHEL Compliance with Red Hat Ansible Services

Overview

Maintaining CIS and RHEL compliance across Dev, QA, and Prod servers can be time-consuming and error-prone. Manual audits often leave gaps, and configuration drift exposes systems to risk. Using Red Hat Ansible services and enterprise Red Hat solutions, Ekfrazo automated compliance checks, generated audit-ready reports, and applied rapid remediation when deviations were detected. This combination of Red Hat Ansible services and practical automation reduced audit time, improved consistency across environments, and helped the client stay prepared for internal and external compliance reviews.

Business Challenges

Compliance was becoming a recurring roadblock. Manual checks consumed time and effort, while servers often drifted from CIS and RHEL policies due to patching or unauthorized edits. Visibility into compliance status was limited, across traditional and containerized environments, especially where OpenShift consulting was required to standardize security controls across hybrid cloud infrastructure.

• Manual audits stretched audit cycles and required repetitive work
• Security drift occurred frequently across Dev, QA, and Prod servers
• Lack of centralized reporting slowed compliance validation
• Delayed remediation left gaps before corrective action could be applied

Solution

A Git-driven solution integrated Red Hat Ansible services to automatically validate CIS and RHEL policies across Dev, QA, and Prod servers. AWX job templates orchestrated audit workflows, while Jinja2 reporting generated clear, review-ready compliance reports. When deviations were detected, Red Hat Ansible services playbooks applied corrective actions immediately, reducing downtime and ensuring configurations remained consistent and auditable.

• Ansible roles validated SSH root login, password policies, SELinux, and file permissions
• Jinja2 templates provided detailed compliance reports for reviews
• AWX job templates automated the scheduling of audit and remediation workflows
• Secondary playbooks restored baseline configurations when drift was detected

Impact for the Client

Automated compliance checks and configuration drift detection ensured CIS and RHEL policies were enforced consistently across all servers. By applying Red Hat Ansible services and enterprise Red Hat solutions, the client transformed compliance checks into automated, auditable operations. Audit cycles accelerated, deviations were corrected immediately, downtime was reduced, and teams gained clear, real-time visibility into system compliance, This engagement reinforces Ekfrazo’s role as a trusted provider of enterprise automation and Ansible automation services supporting OpenShift-based platforms.