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Agenda ● Why integrate CI/CD tools ● Ansible is your “Glue” ● Integrations ● Demo ● Q&A John Ray Practice Manager, DevOps Derrick Sutherland Senior Consultant © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Principles of a CI/CD Framework Reduce waste ● Human touches ● Alerts that are useless Feedback ● Continuous improvement ● Feedback at all stages Use the right tools ● Evangelize ● Train Adhere to process ● Fix problems at the start ● Discipline = freedom © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

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Integration of CI/CD tools ● Push code faster ● Increase reliability of software releases ● Provide structure and governance © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Ansible is the Glue © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Why Ansible is the “Glue” Bare-metal servers, VMs or cloud instances, Ansible streamlines the process. Provisioning Effectively manage the entire application lifecycle from development to production. App Deployment Centralizing configuration file management is a common use case for Ansible. Config Management Ansible provides a simple solution for managing disparate systems. Orchestration Easily automate site-wide security policies via Ansible playbooks. Security & Compliance Keep your applications properly deployed & managed throughout the entire lifecycle. Continuous Delivery © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Ansible: The What It’s a simple automation language that can perfectly describe an IT application infrastructure in Ansible Playbooks. No database or daemon required and only needs to be installed on one machine (a laptop?) ● Python 2.4+ supported ● SSH and SFTP (or SCP) used to manage system communication ● Windows support is driven via Powershell via winrm ● Uses OpenSSH when capable ● Will fallback to Parmiko for older machines © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

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Ansible: Playbooks © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

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Ansible: Modules © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Ansible: Modules ● Python-based ● Key-value based parameters © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Use Case: Ansible & Operating Systems ● Configure and manage operating systems ● Thousands of modules available ● Support for Linux and Windows client machines ● No agent required ex. ansible webservers -m yum -a “name=httpd state=present” © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Use Case: Ansible & Infrastructure / Cloud ● Hundreds of modules available for each major cloud platform ○ AWS, Azure, GCP, Openstack, DigitalOcean, etc ● Hundreds of modules available for multiple infrastructure providers ○ VMWare, RHEV, etc ● Provides ability to provision, modify, manage and delete resources across multiple domains © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Use Case: Ansible & Containers ● Ansible manages the lifecycle of containers & images ○ Build, Push, Pull ● Ansible deploys container registry & orchestration systems ○ ex. KubeSpray, GKE, AKS, EKS, etc ○ ex. ACS, ECR, etc ● Ansible can fully manage Kubernetes based environments ○ Deployments, ReplicaSets, Scaling, etc © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

Use Case: Ansible & Notifications ● Ansible can send notifications out to third party chat systems ● Multiple plugins are available for the most popular chat systems © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat 

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CI/CD Review 1. Shadow-Soft will review your existing CI/CD framework, architecture, and tooling 2. Receive recommendations on how to integrate your CI/CD tools together 3. Learn how other clients are using Ansible as “Glue” Schedule a time with a consultant [email protected] © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat