Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

Summary

We have covered the configuration management process and its relation to Docker. The key takeaway from the chapter is as follows:

• Configuration management is a process of creating and applying the configurations of the infrastructure and the application
• Ansible is one of the best trending configuration management tools. It is agentless and therefore requires no special server configuration
• Ansible can be used with ad hoc commands, but the real power lies in Ansible playbooks
• The Ansible playbook is a definition of how the environment should be configured
• The purpose of Ansible roles is to reuse parts of playbooks.
• Ansible Galaxy is an online service to share Ansible roles
• Ansible integrates well with Docker and brings additional ...