Ansible and the Atlassian Software Suite
Atlassian creates products designed to unleash the power in every team. This suite of DevOps tools support team functions across development workflow, including: tracking, collaboration, code, build and ship.
Ansible as the IT automation engine fits nicely with the Atlassian suite of tools, connecting the different phases of the development cycle and working to accelerate the workflow from code commitment to production.
Ansible is such a powerful and flexible tool - automating tasks from configuration management to code deployment to interacting with various APIs - that we describe it as DevOps glue, connecting components in your toolchain.
Atlassian's phases of the development cycle and Ansible integrations:
Plan - Collaboration:
HipChat, JIRA Software
Build - Staging, Infrastructure as code, Collaboration:
Bitbucket, Red Hat® Ansible® Tower
Continuous integration - CI, Testing:
Bitbucket Pipelines, HipChat
Deploy - Release dashboards, Automated deployment:
JIRA Software, HipChat, Red Hat Ansible Tower
Operate - APM, Communication, Issue tracking:
HipChat, JIRA Software
Continuous feedback - User feedback:
HipChat
Integration Benefits
The combined Ansible and Atlassian solution provides:
- Accuracy - repeatable process eliminates human error
- Speed - automated workflow allows rapid development changes
- Ubiquity - enforce consistency across environments
- Control - role based or self-service
- Knowledge - visibility across teams
