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Arsen
Arsen

Reputation: 569

Run ansible in docker

Is it possible to bring 4-5 containers with docker-compose then run ansible roles?(Ansible can be installed onto one container or run from my local pc to a containers) So basically those 4-5 containers will be my target hosts.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 15192

Answers (2)

Alassane Ndiaye
Alassane Ndiaye

Reputation: 4767

You can change the connection type of Ansible from SSH to Docker using ansible_connection: docker in your inventory file or --connection docker from the command line. This will allow you to use Docker hostnames as inventory. The documentation can be found here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/connection.html

Upvotes: 7

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 311238

Sure, it's possible. You would target an image, not a container, by running Ansible as part of your Dockerfile. For example, something like:

FROM ubuntu:bionic

# Install prerequisities for Ansible
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install python3 python3-nacl python3-pip libffi-dev

# Install ansible
RUN pip3 install ansible

# Copy your ansible configuration into the image
COPY my_ansible_project /ansible

# Run ansible to configure things
RUN ansible-playbook /ansible/playbook.yml

Note also that the packer tool can (a) build docker images and (b) has an ansible provisioner.

Upvotes: 7

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