Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Understanding Docker containers as environments

Docker's implementation makes it highly effective for spinning up environments. Environments in this context represent application hosts, database tiers, and APIs that can be combined to provide a working instance of a software solution. In the case of larger organizations, these environments might be multiple instances (development, QA, stage, and production).

In the following diagram, we can see the architecture of a full-scale environment implementation using Docker:

In the preceding diagram, we have multiple containers serving up multiple environments. Ansible's integration and orchestration ...