Automate Quarkus deployment with Ansible

Let’s see how to build and deploy a Quarkus app using Ansible. We’ll see how we can automate the entire process, from the code checkout to the application compilation using Maven and then its deployment and start of the service, as a systemd service, on the target system using Ansible and its collection for Quarkus.

The first part, the application code checkout, compilation and packaging on the Ansible (where Ansible runs). We’ll use the getting-started sample application provided in its Quarkus QuickStarts directory as a base for this tutorial. We’ll also leverage the Quarkus collection for Ansible, an extension for Ansible that alleviates the boilerplate required and to quickly build and deploy a Quarkus using Ansible.