Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Ansible and Git

Ansible provides a complete module to manipulate Git repositories. For those unfamiliar with Git, Git is a modern distributed source control solution currently in use by a significant number of software organizations. Unlike traditional server/client-oriented source control solutions, Git provides a nifty distributed solution, which does not require a central server. Ansible's integration with Git is fairly robust. It provides a complete set of integration tasks. The complete documentation for the Ansible Git module can be found at http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/git_module.html.

Let's take a look at some example playbook tasks and see how we can integrate Ansible and Git.

One prerequisite for Ansible's Git integration is ...