Integrating Ansible with Other Technologies
Ansible integrates quite nicely with other technologies. The implementation of the module system provides us with a set of unique hooks that we can leverage to connect Ansible (on an API level) with popular software solutions. In this section of implementing Ansible with DevOps, we will take a closer look at how to actually use Ansible to connect with some of the more popular technology solutions available to DevOps-minded individuals.
Ansible with JIRA
Ansible provides us with a handy set of built-in tasks that can be used to create tickets. For those of you unfamiliar with JIRA, it is a widely used ticketing system created and maintained by Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com). In this section, we will take a look at how to create and manipulate JIRA tickets using Ansible. The general implementation uses the JIRA module provided by Ansible. The following is an example of how to create a ticket using an Ansible task:
# Create a new JIRA ticket and...