Ansible with GitHub Actions: Automating Playbook Runs

Ansible is one of the most popular tools for managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure. GitHub Actions allows users to automate the software development and deployment tasks defined in a GitHub repository. Combining them will enable you to automate and streamline your Ansible deployments, leveraging continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles.

What is Ansible?

Ansible is an open-source, battle-tested automation tool known for its simplicity and powerful capabilities. It is a flexible, powerful tool for automating infrastructure management and configuration tasks, making it an excellent choice for configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and application deployment use cases.

Ansible is targeted chiefly at IT operators, administrators, and decision-makers, helping them achieve operational excellence across their entire infrastructure ecosystem. Backed by RedHat and a loyal open-source community, Ansible can operate across hybrid clouds, on-prem infrastructure, and IoT. It’s an engine that can greatly improve the efficiency and consistency of your IT environments.