Ansible Development Kit

Ansible Development Kit is a collection of tools, libraries, and templates are based on Lean Delivery approach and community best practices for roles and playbooks development.

Why this product?

Ansible Development Kit defines a common workflow for Ansible roles and playbooks development:

• This a comprehensive framework for roles and playbooks development.
• You do not need to reinvent a wheel and start deep diving in best practice from scratch. Just take for a minute and use predefined framework and deliver high quality automated solution in hours.
• You can avoid pitfalls one the way of becoming true Ansible developer. Framework is hands-on engineering excellence.
• Ansible Development Kit is Software Development Life Cycle compliance.
• Suitable for delivery open source and private solutions.
• Continuous Integration components are already included using reconfigured templates. Just adopt and get value.
• Broad set of open source tools. It is equal to internal licensed products.

What product provides?

Ansible Development Kit provides:

• All stages described in accordance with SDLC stages such as Development and Implementation, Testing and Integration, Release Management, Feedback and Analysis.
• Preconfigured assets for integration with required components ex. Version Control System, Continuous Integration, Testing, Release Management.
• Broad set of tools and services on each stage of life cycle including GitLab, GitHub, Travis CI, GitLab Runners, Molecule, TestInfra, Ansible Galaxy, Docker.
• Integration with popular clouds. Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, EPAM Cloud.
• Public and private hosting of CI process.
• Template based on Cookiecutter framework which represents independent repository with logical and hierarchical structure, contains configuration and test assets to avoid starting development from scratch.

How to make your own?

To organize your own solution based on Ansible Development Kit you need to perform the following:

1. Make new organization on GitHub or use already existing to store your repositories: https://github.com/organizations/new
2. Setup Ansible Galaxy integration with GitHub: https://galaxy.ansible.com/docs/contributing/importing.html
3. Setup Travis CI accordingly: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/tutorial/
4. Setup Gitlab CI accordingly: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ci_cd_for_external_repos/github_integration.html
5. Setup your Gitlab runners if necessary: See related Terraform module or Gitlab-runner Ansible role and related Dockerfile.
6. Organize service accounts for your cloud tests.
7. Create you Cookiecutter templates: See our one for example.
8. Add Lint tests according to documentation:
   Yamllint
   Ansible Lint
9. Add Molecule and Testinfra tests according to documentation:
   Molecule
   Testinfra
10. Start contributing.