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Create a Deploy Ansible Workflow

Create a Deploy Ansible Workflow

Create an Ansible workflow that deploys the site.yml playbook, which, in turn, configures your environment.

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Using the Docker container action, you will build a workflow. This workflow will be responsible for deploying the site.yml playbook, which, in turn, configures your environment.

We have created the workflow file using the command below:

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touch .github/workflows/deploy_ansible.yml

Components

Let’s look at the components of the deploy_ansible workflow file one by one.

Triggers

You will give the workflow a name and define the triggers for the following actions:

  • Push
  • Pull request
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name: deploy ansible
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
  pull_request:
    branches:
    - master

Job

Use the checkout and Ansible Docker container actions within a job called deploy.

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jobs:  
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - uses: ./.github/actions/ansible

The highlighted line-6 calls action from within the repository instead of an external source. Review the complete deploy_ansible.yml file below:

name: deploy ansible

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
  pull_request:
    branches:
    - master

jobs:  
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - uses: ./.github/actions/ansible
deploy_ansible.yml

Click the Run button and wait for the environment to set up. Once set up, save, add, commit, and push the new ...