Ansible plugin

Ansible is a software tool that provides admins and developers with extensive capabilities to deploy and manage multiple configurations.

Ansible scales by supporting plugins. Vulners Ansible plugin extends standard Ansible features, adds new capabilities, and allows you to scan all target Linux hosts.

The information on this page is provided with the assumption that you are familiar with Ansible.

Getting started

1. Generate API key

2. Specify the API key in /tmp/vulners_ansible_result.json /tmp/vulners_ansible_result.html or any other way. Module help:

   options:
           vulners_api_key:
               description: You key for Vulners API (obtain one at https://vulners.com/)
               vars:
                 - name: api_key
           vulners_api_key_file:
               description: Location of your file with your key for Vulners API (obtain one at https://vulners.com/)
               vars:
                 - name: api_key_file
   

3. Install Vulners Ansible plugin:

   ansible-galaxy collection install gmedian.vulners_ansible_plugin
   

   

4. View/edit the list of monitored hosts:

   vi /etc/ansible/hosts
   
   10.0.10.3
   10.0.10.6
   10.0.10.9
   webgoat.io:2222 ansible_user=test
   127.0.0.1:2223 ansible_user=test
   

5. Launch Vulners Ansible plugin:

6. The results are located here:

   /tmp/vulners_ansible_result.json
   /tmp/vulners_ansible_result.html