The Jenkins Ansible plugin provides the ability for Jenkins to directly communicate with Ansible and run a playbook. This option is probably the most straightforward integration point between Jenkins and Ansible. Using this solution, Ansible doesn't necessarily need to run playbooks on a remote server (however, it definitely can). In this solution, we can run playbooks directly from the Jenkins server and either have those playbooks run locally or run them against targeted infrastructure.
In order to facilitate the execution of playbooks through Jenkins, we will need to first install the Ansible plugin via the Jenkins plugin manager. Let's take a look at how to do this.
This tutorial assumes you have a Jenkins instance ...
