Complete Continuous Delivery pipeline

After discussing all the aspects of Ansible, environments, nonfunctional testing, and versioning, we are ready to extend the Jenkins pipeline and finalize a simple, but complete, Continuous Delivery pipeline.

We will do it in a few steps as follows:

• Create the inventory of staging and production environments
• Update acceptance tests to use the remote host (instead of local)
• Release the application to the production environment
• Add a smoke test which makes sure the application was successfully released

Inventory

In their simplest form, we can have two environments: staging and production, each having one Docker host machine. In real life, we may want to add more host groups for each environment...