Release Pipeline for Ansible
Explore how to create a release pipeline for Ansible using GitHub Actions. Understand building environments with Docker, linting your playbooks with ansible-lint, and automating deployment while managing environment variables and vault passwords to ensure a smooth CI/CD process.
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You will be using Github actions to automate the build, test, and release stages of the release pipeline. The idea is to have all the stages run after a commit or pull request is made to the master branch.
What makes up each stage?
Build
Ansible isn’t a compiled language, but it does have environmental requirements. Because the code will be running on a hosted agent provided by Github, Ansible won’t be installed. You will create an action that uses a Docker container to set up the build environment.
Test
You will start testing by using a linter. Ansible has a command-line utility called ansible-lint used to analyze your code and flag issues based on rules. After ...