Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Using Ansible with Git

For the reasons that we have just seen and because of its huge popularity, I suggest always using Git for your Ansible repositories.

There are a few suggestions that I always provide to the people I talk to, so Ansible gets the best out of Git:

• Create environment branches: Creating environment branches such as dev, prod, test, and stg, will allow you to easily keep track of the different environments and their respective update statuses. I often suggest keeping the master branch for the development environment, since I find many people are used to pushing new changes directly to the master. If you use a master for a production environment, people can inadvertently push changes in the production environment while they wanted ...