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, …
GitLab
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.