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Integrating Ansible with GitHub Actions
This course will teach you how to run Ansible playbooks using GitHub Actions. You will learn how to set up workflows and securely connect with the servers you manage.
What you'll learn
When your usage of Ansible playbooks increases, it becomes increasingly harder to run them securely and successfully by hand. In this course, Integrating Ansible with GitHub Actions, you’ll learn to run Ansible playbooks using GitHub Actions. First, you’ll explore GitHub Actions, triggers, and workflows, including automated validations in your workflows to prevent committing Ansible files that are not well-formatted. Next, you’ll discover how to create deployment pipelines for your Ansible playbooks to deploy updates automatically. Finally, you’ll learn different ways for securely connecting to your servers using GitHub actions. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of GitHub Actions needed to securely automate running Ansible playbooks.
Table of contents
- Introduction | 2m 23s
- Use Case: Configuring a Linux, Apache, and PHP Server | 1m 4s
- The Reasons for Source Control | 3m 19s
- Demo: Storing Playbooks in GitHub | 8m 7s
- GitHub Actions: Workflows, Actions, and Triggers | 5m 8s
- Demo: Creating a Workflow for Linting Ansible Playbooks | 10m 16s
- Demo: Running the Linting Workflow on Every Push and Pull Request | 8m 14s
- Summary | 52s
About the author
Henry Been is a DevOps & Azure architect from Texel, the Netherlands. He works with teams to write and deliver software to their customers. His interests are architecture, Azure, and DevOps.