In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, having an efficient CI/CD pipeline is essential for automating builds, tests, and deployments. Among the top contenders in the DevOps world are Jenkins and Azure DevOps Pipeline. While both tools serve the same purpose, they excel in different areas and cater to varying team needs. In this article, we’ll […]
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Jenkins Integration – Terraform IaC Pipeline Setup
How to integrate Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) into Jenkins? Cloud infrastructure offers great agility and flexibility but you need the right toolsets to manage the power of public cloud platforms. To operate in the public cloud efficiently, You need to treat infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC eliminates the manual interaction required to configure Cloud […]
Open Source – Hybrid Cloud Automation Platform
Ansible and Terraform are market-leading automation tools. These tools are not competing with each other. But great things can be achieved when you combine them together. Terraform is the best multi-cloud provisioning tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure efficiently. Ansible on another hand where plays a significant role in configuration management. If the organization […]
Jenkins- Ansible -Authenticate Server using Protected Passphrase
Ansible is the most widely used configuration management tool. A recent challenge was to authenticate the servers using a protected passphrase. We have a set of servers which can be authenticated only using a passphrase. This article will provide a step by step procedure to authenticate ansible clients using a private key and protected passphrase. […]
Jenkins – Ansible – Configure Dynamic Inventory
Are you using Jenkins as front-end GUI for Ansible Automation? Have you ever tried the dynamic inventory in Jenkin’s Ansible plugin? Ansible Inventory can be created using the plugin’s dynamic inventory feature. This feature could be very useful when you want to pass hosts as user-defined input and that’s is not part any of the […]
Jenkins – Store Console Output in Linux Filesystem – Artifacts
How to store Jenkins job’s console output in another system? There are much opensource software is available to store the logs and retrieve logs in time. Jfrog is one of the most famous artifact solutions. Here, we will be using native Linux/Unix commands to pull the Jenkins logs and store it in local/NFS filesystem for […]
Jenkins – Rename Build Job Names – Build Name setter
Jenkins job’s build name would be named with the numeric number by default in increment manner. After configuring the Jenkins job, the first build job would be named as “1”, the second job would be named as “2” and so on. Most of the cases, no one prefers to change the default build naming algorithm. […]
Jenkins Console – Xterm Terminal – Colorized Ansible playbook Output
This artcile will walk through the installing and configuring Ansicolor plugin in Jenkins to make colorized output in ansible playbook stdout. Jenkins console is very plain and simple. If you are using Jenkins to run the ansible playbook, you might notice that colorful output might be missing. Ansible Tower/AWX offers the colorful stdout in the […]
Jenkins – Passing Extra variables for Ansible Playbook
Ansible Playbooks are often written with many extra variables to pass the human inputs. In Ansible Tower /AWX, “SURVEY” feature is used to pass the extra variable to the playbook. If you are using Jenkins as your front-end graphical interface, you might be wondering how to pass the ansible extra variable. This article will walk […]
Ansible Engine – Run Playbook using Jenkins – GUI
Can’t afford Ansible Tower? Worried about AWX stability (Open Source Ansible Tower’s upstream Project )? Jenkins is more than enough to run the Ansible playbook from GUI. Ansible Tower’s main selling point is RBAC (Role based access control), credentials encryption and REST API. When you use Jenkins, it has plenty of plugins to offer role-based […]