Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

Benefits of Ansible

Ansible may seem redundant; however, it brings additional benefits to the delivery process:

• Docker environment: The Docker host itself has to be configured and managed. Every container is ultimately running on Linux machines, which needs kernel patching, Docker engine updates, network configuration, and so on. What's more, there may be different server machines with different Linux distributions and the responsibility of Ansible is to make sure the Docker engine is up and running.
• Non-Dockerized applications: Not everything is run inside a container. If part of the infrastructure is containerized and part is deployed in the standard way or in the cloud, then Ansible can manage it all with the playbook configuration file. ...