How to Glue your CI/CD Stack together with Ansible

Do you need to push code faster? Do you need to increase the reliability of your software releases?

Learn how to conquer these challenges with a simple CI/CD framework and the flexibility of Ansible.

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5. Why Shadow-Soft Take the risk out of emerging technology You’re a long-term partner, not a transaction Unique expertise and certifications © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
6. Solutions Conquer scalability and governance challenges with our CI/CD framework CI/CD & Automation Get to market faster, increase portability, and reduce costs with containerized apps in Kubernetes Kubernetes Solve your toughest IT management problem with our flexible monitoring solutions Monitoring & Analytics © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
7. 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
8. 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
9. Why? Source: https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/business-value
10. You have all these tools!!! © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
11. Integration of CI/CD tools • Push code faster • Increase reliability of software releases • Provide structure and governance © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
12. Ansible is the Glue © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
13. 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
14. 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
15. Ansible: The What © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
16. Ansible: Playbooks © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
17. Ansible: Playbook Example © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
18. Ansible: Inventories © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
19. Ansible: Modules © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
20. Ansible: Modules • Python-based • Key-value based parameters © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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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26. 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 contact@shadow-soft.com © Shadow-Soft & Red Hat