Release Pipeline for Ansible

You will be using Github actions to automate the build, test, and release stages of the release pipeline. The idea is to have all the stages run after a commit or pull request is made to the master branch.

What makes up each stage?

Build

Ansible isn’t a compiled language, but it does have environmental requirements. Because the code will be running on a hosted agent provided by Github, Ansible won’t be installed. You will create an action that uses a Docker container to set up the build environment.

Test

You will start testing by using a linter. Ansible has a command-line utility called ansible-lint used to analyze your code and flag issues based on rules. After linting, other types of tests could be added to this stage. However, to start linting will be the only step in the test stage.

Release

The work that you did in the Building Reusable ...