Summary
In this chapter, you explored the basic concepts, processes, and technical terms surrounding DevOps, such as CI/CD and continuous deployment. You also learned about some of the possibilities of Ansible integration within the DevOps workflow. Then, you learned how to use Ansible inside a continuous deployment workflow using Jenkins. After that, you learned about how to perform rolling updates without downtime while using Ansible as part of continuous application deployment. Finally, you learned how to integrate Ansible with Terraform for IaC provisioning.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to build, run, and manage containers using Ansible.