Chapter 9. Integrating Ansible with CI and CD Solutions

Ansible, DevOps, Agile, Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) implementations go hand in hand. Each transitions smoothly into the next. Through Ansible's comprehensive module implementation that we learned about in the last chapter, we can saw how Ansible integrates quite nicely with many industry standard Agile, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery solutions. Some of the more common CI->CD solutions that Ansible integrates with include Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven, Bamboo, and so on. Ansible integrates with these solutions so tightly that in fact, Ansible even has a complete CI->CD integration guide provided at the following URL https://www.ansible.com/continuous-delivery.

For those unfamiliar with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, these solutions have taken the software development world by storm. They propose a modern standardized way for committing, building, delivering, and testing...