DevOps: Tools. Ansible

Ansible is a powerful tool for IT automation and can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it..

The purpose of using Ansible in the pipeline flow is to reuse roles and Playbooks for provisioning, leaving Jenkins only as a process orchestrator instead of a shell script executor

• Automation engine

• Lightweight

• Simple YAML language

• Ad-hoc parallel task execution