Summary
In this chapter, we looked at running our Ansible Playbooks using the compute resources GitHub and Azure DevOps provide. We discovered that this is great for running our playbook code as we can ship code that defines the configuration for the computing resources alongside our Playbook code.
We also learned that by using the built-in tools, we can securely configure our environment so as not to expose secrets, such as our service principle credentials, to other users who have access to run the playbook.
The only downside is that we had to create the logic that runs the playbook. Wouldn’t it be great to use a tool designed to centrally run our Playbooks from a single user interface? Well, in our next chapter, we will cover exactly that – so if you like the approach we have taken so far, read on.
