Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Symmetrical environments

In a rapid-velocity deployment environment (where changes are pushed through a delivery pipeline rapidly), it is absolutely critical that any pre-production and production environments maintain a level of symmetry. That is to say, the deployment procedures and resulting installation of a software system are identical in every way possible among environments. For example, an organization may have the following environments:

• Development: Here, developers can test their changes and integration tactics. This environment acts as a playground for all things development oriented and provides developers with an area to validate their code changes and test the resulting impact.
• Quality-assurance environment: This environment ...