Jenkins CI + Robot framework + Ansible = Power!! - Mike Piecuch

Jenkins is an extremely popular continuous integration automation execution platform. The Robot Framework is a test automation harness featuring scripts with an easily readable, almost pure English syntax. Ansible is an automation framework for reliable and repeatable deployment and system management. What do you get when you combine all three? You get a highly extendable and human understandable automation platform able to support multiple workflows from build to test to deployment! (Power!!)

Discussion topics will include:

- Overview of the Robot framework

- Extending the Robot framework to write configuration using Jinja2 template substitution

- Issuing Ansible from Robot framework and collecting results

- Integrating the Robot framework into Jenkins CI

- Running the system through Jenkins using parameterized builds

- Demonstration of this automation platform in use

[MassimoRossello]

If I may ask: since RF is an automation framework itself, why aren't you using that directly? What is the benefit of using Ansible? Is it for exploiting a legacy installation?