Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow

DevOps is a combination of practices, tools, and philosophies that can help increase the speed, efficiency, and security of software development, application delivery, and infrastructure management processes. DevOps practices and methods are common in organizations now due to several advantages, such as faster and frequent deployments, improvement in quality, fewer errors, and high transparency via automation. By combining automation, collaboration, and integration, it is possible to develop and implement efficient DevOps practices, ensuring much higher quality output from your IT operations team.

Due to the numerous integrations, supported plugins, and modules, Ansible is a great tool for automating the tasks in your DevOps workflows. Ansible can help you automate different stages in the software development life cycle (SDLC), such as building applications, scanning the source code, storing artifacts in repositories, deploying the application...