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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 Jenkins


In this section, we will talk about integrating Ansible with Jenkins. Jenkins is a modern CI and automation orchestration solution created and distributed by the open source community. Jenkins originated as Hudson and was eventually transitioned with a new brand name and developed into a comprehensive free and open source build and delivery pipeline orchestration solution. You can download a copy of Jenkins at https://jenkins.io/.

Integrating Ansible with Jenkins is generally a straightforward task. To accomplish this, there are a few well-known integration points where Ansible can be leveraged. They include the Jenkins Ansible plugin, installing Ansible on the Jenkins CI server directly and calling it through an execute shell operation and using the Ansible module to control Jenkins. Let's spend a few minutes discussing each of these options and see how they work.

The Jenkins Ansible plugin

The Jenkins Ansible plugin provides the ability for Jenkins to directly...