Deploying the Ansible Code

Explore how to deploy Ansible code within GitHub Actions by creating a Docker container action. Understand how to automate Ansible runs via entrypoints, manage Galaxy roles, and securely handle Vault passwords in a CI/CD pipeline.

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Create a Docker container GitHub action

Add an ENTRYPOINT

Docker container action

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Running Ansible within a release pipeline isn’t as easy as running a playbook. The build agents running your code are not configured to run Ansible. You are responsible for building that environment at runtime.

You already have the Ansible environment codified in a Dockerfile. Now the question becomes, "How do you run that container with GitHub actions?"

To accomplish this, you will create a Docker container GitHub action and a workflow that uses that action to deploy Ansible.

Create a Docker container GitHub action

Use the following Dockerfile to create the container that our release pipeline uses:

Multi Cloud ...

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

Deploying the Ansible Code

Create a Docker container GitHub action