{"id":74644,"date":"2018-09-24T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/open.microsoft.com\/?p=73895"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:54:12","slug":"tutorial-devops-on-azure-using-jenkins-and-ansible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/tutorial-devops-on-azure-using-jenkins-and-ansible\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: Automate infrastructure and deployment on Azure using Jenkins and Ansible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Both Ansible<\/a> and Jenkins<\/a> are powerful open source automation tools. Using Ansible, you can provision virtual machines, containers, network and complete cloud infrastructures on Azure. In addition, Ansible allows you to automate the deployment and configuration of resources in your environment. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project, including a plugin for Ansible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the power of Ansible and Jenkins, and their deep integration with Azure, you can have a seamless CI\/CD experience on Azure. Below is an example for a web app scenario. Jenkins is used to build and deploy, and Ansible is called to handle provisioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the following sections, we will walk though how to use Jenkins to call Ansible to provision a web app and then continuously build and deploy a Java Spring Boot application to Azure Web Apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Build your Jenkins and Ansible environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Set up the Jenkins host<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It is easy to create a Jenkins server on an Azure Linux virtual machine from a solution template. You can learn more about this template from install-jenkins-solution-template<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install Ansible on the Jenkins host<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When your Jenkins host is created, let us SSH to your Jenkins server and set up Ansible on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

## Install pre-requisite packages<\/p>\n\n\n

\n$ sudo apt-get update\n$ sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev python-pip\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Install Ansible and Azure SDKs via pip<\/p>\n\n\n
\n$ sudo pip install ansible[azure]==2.7.0rc2\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
or<\/p>\n\n\n\n
## Install Azure preview modules<\/p>\n\n\n
\n$ sudo ansible-galaxy install Azure.azure_preview_modules\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n
\n$ sudo pip install -r ~\/.ansible\/roles\/Azure.azure_preview_modules\/files\/requirements-azure.txt\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Note: Ansible modules for Azure Web Apps are only available in Ansible 2.7. You could install Ansible 2.7 RC version here or install Azure role named azure_preview_modules which include latest modules. Ansible 2.7 will be released on Oct 4th<\/sup>. After that, you need not specify the version here because the default version will be 2.7.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Install Maven for a sample Java application<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
In this demo, we will directly use this Jenkins server to build our Java application. Here we also install Maven on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
## Install maven<\/p>\n\n\n
\nsudo apt-get install -y maven\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Install Jenkins plugin for Ansible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The following three plugins will be used for this web app scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n