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Complete TaskFlow Deployment with Ansible

Deploy the complete TaskFlow application stack across multiple environments using production-style Ansible automation with Vault secrets and rolling updates that minimize downtime.

105 minutes
platform-engineering
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 12. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 12: Ansible Configuration Management (slug: ansible-configuration-management)

Deploy the complete TaskFlow application stack across multiple environments using production-ready Ansible automation. Implement multi-environment deployments, manage secrets with Ansible Vault, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.

What You'll Learn

Deploy complete TaskFlow stack with Ansible (PostgreSQL, Redis, FastAPI, Nginx)

Implement multi-environment automation (dev and prod) with group_vars

Use Ansible Vault to encrypt production secrets (database passwords, API keys)

Structure large-scale automation with site.yml and role composition

Implement rolling/serial updates that minimize downtime for backend deployments

Integrate Ansible deployment into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline

Use tags for selective task execution and staged deployments

Implement health checks and deployment verification

Troubleshoot failed deployments with debug techniques

Apply production best practices (idempotency, secrets management, testing)

Create deployment runbooks and documentation

Handle database migrations and schema updates safely

Ship Day-2 changes (app version bumps, dependency patches) across dev and prod using the same rolling-update playbook

Prerequisites

Week 12 Lab 1 (Ansible Fundamentals) completed

Week 12 Lab 2 (Ansible Roles and Playbooks) completed

Week 10 AWS Cloud Computing (EC2, RDS concepts)

Week 11 Terraform infrastructure provisioning

Understanding of multi-tier application architecture

Familiarity with CI/CD concepts

Technologies Covered

ansibleautomationmulti-environmentsecrets-managementcicdrolling-updatesproduction-deployment

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