Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

Exercises

In this chapter, we have covered the fundamentals of Ansible and the way to use it together with Docker. As an exercise, we propose the following tasks:

1. Create the server infrastructure and use Ansible to manage it.
   • Connect a physical machine or run a VirtualBox machine to emulate the remote server
   • Configure SSH access to the remote machine (SSH keys)
   • Install Python on the remote machine
   • Create an Ansible inventory with the remote machine
   • Run the Ansible ad hoc command (with the ping module) to check that the infrastructure is configured correctly
2. Create a Python-based "hello world" web service and deploy it in a remote machine using Ansible playbook.
   • The service can look exactly the same as described in the exercises for the ...