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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

Integrating Ansible with Other Technologies


Ansible integrates quite nicely with other technologies. The implementation of the module system provides us with a set of unique hooks that we can leverage to connect Ansible (on an API level) with popular software solutions. In this section of implementing Ansible with DevOps, we will take a closer look at how to actually use Ansible to connect with some of the more popular technology solutions available to DevOps-minded individuals.

Ansible with JIRA

Ansible provides us with a handy set of built-in tasks that can be used to create tickets. For those of you unfamiliar with JIRA, it is a widely used ticketing system created and maintained by Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com). In this section, we will take a look at how to create and manipulate JIRA tickets using Ansible. The general implementation uses the JIRA module provided by Ansible. The following is an example of how to create a ticket using an Ansible task:

# Create a new JIRA ticket and...