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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2
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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

by Jonathan McAllister
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
6h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ansible best practices in CI->CD

Ansible can be leveraged for a number of tasks within a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery atmosphere. When adopting Ansible, it makes sense to start with a small footprint and expand it to be more and more responsible for the automation being executed.

In this section, let's take a few minutes to explore some best practices within CI->CD in conjunction with Ansible:

  1. Always store your Ansible playbooks in source control.
  2. Ship your ansible playbooks with your artifacts (version everything!).
  3. Maintain separate inventory files for each environment (DEV, QA, and so on).
  4. Try to use the same playbooks for deploying to DEV as you would in production.
  5. Leverage Ansible's configuration management implementation ...
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ISBN: 9781787120532