Ansible is an automation tool that comes under IAAC (infrastructure as a code). Ansible is used for provisioning the infrastructure of the working environment, and virtualized hosts. It can also be used to install services and provision resources inside the cloud infrastructure. Ansible AWX is a freely available project tool for testing, which can be used in the lab, POC environment or deployment. It is considered the foundation on which the Ansible Tower was created. Also, AWX is a code branch that only goes through minimal and quality engineering testing. Basically, …
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Vagrant
In the software development world, an ideal development environment is a key to developing resourceful software products but sometimes maintaining and configuring this development environment becomes a herculean time-consuming task. That’s where the Vagrant virtual machine manager comes into play.
Software Engineering concepts of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment are the main concepts attributed to CI/CD. This enables automation in building, testing and deployment of applications. Though a real CI/CD pipeline is not easy to build the right tools could help to keep it more manageable. In this blog, we compare Jenkins and Bamboo.
API Testing Automation in AWS
API stands for Application Programming Language, API testing mainly focuses on testing themselves on API directly and also used as a part of integration testing to check the compatibility, security and to verify functional paths, functionality and reliability between two different applications. The whole new generation prefers API instead of GUI testing because it is considered as the most stable interface to do the system under test. API automation can help to increase efficiency and expedite the testing. Here we emphasize, how to automate the API test using serverless …
The majority of companies have recognized the importance of the cloud and led them to choose different cloud service providers like AWS ( Amazon Web Services) to increase utilization rates. It has the ability to grow and expand IT resources without capital investment.
Ansistrano is one among several Ansible Galaxy roles for simply managing deployment requirements of scripting applications like PHP, Python, and Ruby. It is in real Ansible added to Capistrano or in other words a modification of Capistrano. Ansible Galaxy is the website where users can take, manage and share roles. It also provides a command-line interface for working on roles for the user.
GitLab for CI/CD
GitLab, as you know is a web-based DevOps tool that offers functionality to automate entire lifecycle spanning from planning to creation, build, verify, testing, deploying, etc. GitLab CI/CD is a built-in tool of GitLab that allows you to apply major methods of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment etc to your software. Thus any third-party applications or integrations is not needed. This blog gives you an insight on GitLab CI/CD tool for continuous software development methodologies.
Terraform is the first multi-cloud immutable infrastructure tool that was created by HashiCorp. It was released three years ago and written in the Go programming language. Terraform is one of the simplest tools for infrastructure management and it uses a simple code for infrastructure management. Terraform can be used for both existing and custom in-house solutions.
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) defines a culture, a set of operating/manipulating principles, and collection of practices that allow application development teams to deliver code changes more regularly and in an accurate way.
What is OPENSHIFT? OpenShift is a PaaS. Basically saying OpenShift is a Cloud-Enabled Application Platform (CEAP). For those who are not sure anymore about PaaS, here is a quick reminder. Platform as a service (PaaS) or Application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a class of distributed computing administrations that gives a stage enabling the client to create, run, and oversee applications without the multifaceted nature of the building and keeping up the foundation commonly connected with creating and propelling an application.