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Ansible: Zero to Production Ready

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.

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This chapter introduced the four stages of the release pipeline and Github Actions to automate the release pipeline stages,

  • Source
  • Build
  • Testing
  • Release

Linting

We introduced linting and how you can lint your playbooks using the ansible-lint module. We looked at the following methods to deal with errors generated by the ansible-lint command:

  • Fix the error.
  • Ignore the rule using either:
    • -x flag.
    • Adding comments to the playbook.
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