ansible with jenkins pipeline

[Sidh]

Hi,

Anyone using ansible with jenkins pipeline ?

Can you please point me to some documentation with examples ?

Regards,

Sidh

[Michael Bubb]

Are you familiar with groovy syntax? To play around you can setup a pipeline job and create stages for the steps that you want the job to handle.

here is an example stage where yu call a playbook with parameters

stage('deploy') {
  if ("${DEPLOY_FLAG}" == "true") {
    // def SSH_KEY='<path>/deploy_id_rsa'
    def DEP_PLAYBOOK='<path>/deploy_app.yml'
    sh "ansible-playbook --private-key=${SSH_KEY} -b -e MY_WORKSPACE=${workspace}  ${DEP_PLAYBOOK} -l ${DEPLOY_TARGET}"
  }
}

it works nicely and you can see the status of the stages on the job home page.

So an example job which builds and deploys might have stages where you 

- pull from source mgmnt

- verify

- build

- build test

- deploy to canary

- sanity check

- deploy

- deploy verification

- tests ...

- post deploy notification

All in one script -

Note in my example the conditional - you can set that either in the gui or in github post hooks etc. So the same pipeline file can handle build tests as well as deploys, etc

I would dive in and sandbox until yuo get comfortable