How to use ansible to scan for Spectre/Meltdown vulnerable hosts

First of all head on over to github and download a spectre-meltdown-checker that supports JSON output. Now all we need is a ansible playbook that calls that script:

Important is to adjust the path to  in the script:  task (the path is relative to wherever your playboook file is). Adapt to your needs however you want. It is basically just feeding the output of the script into the from_json  filter, storing it in a variable and then iterating over the result via with_items.

Example output:

(vulnerable to  CVE-2017-5715 since Intel retracted their microcode updates and haven’t released new ones yet)

Bash function to run commands against ansible hosts


Usage example:

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Ansible tasks to reboot a server if required
