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Published inSep 2022
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath
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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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Integrating Jenkins with AAP

Jenkins (https://www.jenkins.io) is a well-known open source tool (written in the Java programming language) that can be used to implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and deployment solutions. Automating the build and deployment is the key to effective DevOps practices. As shown in the following diagram, developers and testers can offload such tasks to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins:

Figure 12.37 – CI/CD workflow using Jenkins

Jenkins can execute many tasks natively or use plugins but for complex tasks, Jenkins can utilize the appropriate tools. For example, instead of calling complex scripts or commands inside the Jenkins pipeline, a specific job can be offloaded to the Ansible automation controller, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12.38 – Jenkins integration with AAP for database operations

The automation controller will execute the job based on the parameters...

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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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