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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By : Jonathan McAllister
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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By: Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

Thinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you! In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 9. Integrating Ansible with CI and CD Solutions

Ansible, DevOps, Agile, Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) implementations go hand in hand. Each transitions smoothly into the next. Through Ansible's comprehensive module implementation that we learned about in the last chapter, we can saw how Ansible integrates quite nicely with many industry standard Agile, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery solutions. Some of the more common CI->CD solutions that Ansible integrates with include Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven, Bamboo, and so on. Ansible integrates with these solutions so tightly that in fact, Ansible even has a complete CI->CD integration guide provided at the following URL https://www.ansible.com/continuous-delivery.

For those unfamiliar with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, these solutions have taken the software development world by storm. They propose a modern standardized way for committing, building, delivering, and testing...