Summary

Explore how to automate the four stages of an Ansible release pipeline—source, build, test, and release—using GitHub Actions. Learn to implement linting with ansible-lint, run workflows via Docker containers, incorporate GitHub secrets, handle errors, and optimize execution to ensure smooth deployments. Understand how to clean up infrastructure post-deployment to avoid costs and enhance workflow reliability.

We'll cover the following...

Linting
Lint Github action
Docker container GitHub action
Deploy Ansible workflow
Setting a failure exit code in a Docker container
Delete the environments

1.Getting Started

2.Ansible Development with Containers

3.Connect to the Cloud

4.Starting at the Source

5.Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

6.Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

7.Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

8.Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

9.Build Reusable Configurations

10.Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

11.Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

12.Appendix

Summary