Automating the playbooks promotion to production

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Hello team,

I am new to Awx and I find tool very interesting to learn.

Recently , our project went live but we had to manually create and deploy playbooks from dev to production.

I am looking for options on how to automate the code promotion(more than 10 gitlab projects at a time) using gitlab or any cicd tool from test to production.

Thank you in advance.

Venkata

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You should befine a production branch in each project. In awx for production deployment refer to the production branch

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We are using same approach however, we need to sync the playbook from production branch during deployment.

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I am not in favor of that method, one should only pull from production after testing has released to production. I recommend that at the end of testing and passing is when it is synced/committed to production. We had a bad experience at one of my old companies with the way you are running now , code was added to test and they pulled to production and took down the app stack

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Create a production branch from each git dev branch and add the production branches to AWX when your dev is ready to deploy.

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Thank you for inputs. Are there any other best practices that can help us? We are first time users. So any suggestion is welcomed. Thank you again?

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Hi,

Also, if you haven’t already, be sure to checkout the awx.awx collection and write plays to help keep projects, job templates synced across your development and production installations.

Seth