Ansible

Ansible inside Docker for consistent running of ansible inside your local machine or CI/CD system. You can view CHANGELOG to understand what changes have happened to this recently.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

All installs include Mitogen mainly due to the performance improvements that Mitogen awards you. You can read more about it inside the Mitogen for Ansible documentation.

Ansible 2.11

Currently Ansible 2.11 (ansible-core) remains untested with other Ansible tools. Test at your own risk.

• 2.11-alpine-3.13 Dockerfile
• 2.11-alpine-3.12 Dockerfile
• 2.11-alpine-3.11 Dockerfile
• 2.11-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.11-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile
• 2.11-buster Dockerfile
• 2.11-buster-slim Dockerfile
• 2.11-stretch Dockerfile
• 2.11-stretch-slim Dockerfile
• 2.11-centos-7 Dockerfile
• 2.11-centos-8 Dockerfile

Ansible 2.10

• latest, alpine, 2.10-alpine-3.13 Dockerfile
• 2.10-alpine-3.12 Dockerfile
• 2.10-alpine-3.11 Dockerfile
• 2.10-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.10-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile
• 2.10-buster Dockerfile
• 2.10-buster-slim Dockerfile
• 2.10-stretch Dockerfile
• 2.10-stretch-slim Dockerfile
• 2.10-centos-7 Dockerfile
• 2.10-centos-8 Dockerfile

Ansible 2.9

• 2.9-alpine-3.13 Dockerfile
• 2.9-alpine-3.12 Dockerfile
• 2.9-alpine-3.11 Dockerfile
• 2.9-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.9-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile
• 2.9-buster Dockerfile
• 2.9-buster-slim Dockerfile
• 2.9-stretch Dockerfile
• 2.9-stretch-slim Dockerfile
• 2.9-centos-7 Dockerfile
• 2.9-centos-8 Dockerfile

Using Mitogen

To leverage Mitogen to accelerate your playbook runs, add this to your ansible.cfg:

Please investigate in your container the location of ansible_mitogen (it is different per container). You can do this via:

your_container="ansible:latest"
docker run --rm -it "willhallonline/${your_container}" /bin/sh -c "find / -type d | grep "ansible_mitogen/plugins" | sort | head -n 1"

and then configuring your own ansible.cfg like:

[defaults]
strategy_plugins = /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible_mitogen/plugins/
strategy = mitogen_linear

Running

**You will likely need to mount required directories into your container to make it run (or build on top of what is here).

Simple

$~   docker run --rm -it willhallonline/ansible:latest /bin/sh

Mount local directory and ssh key

$~  docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/id_rsa willhallonline/ansible:latest /bin/sh

Injecting commands

$~  docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/id_rsa willhallonline/ansible:latest ansible-playbook playbook.yml

Bash Alias

You can put these inside your dotfiles (~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc to make handy aliases).

alias docker-ansible-cli='docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/.ssh/id_rsa --workdir=/ansible willhallonline/ansible:latest /bin/sh'
alias docker-ansible-cmd='docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/.ssh/id_rsa --workdir=/ansible willhallonline/ansible:latest '

use with:

$~  docker-ansible-cli ansible-playbook -u playbook.yml

Maintainer

• Written and maintained by Will Hall