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.
These are the latest Ansible versions running within the containers:
- Ansible 2.9: 2.9.27
- Ansible 2.10: 2.10.17
- Ansible 2.11: 2.11.8
- Ansible 2.12: 2.12.2
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.
There are a number of immutable images that are also being collected. To find a specific version of Ansible, look within the Docker Hub Tags. Each of the containers follow a similar pattern: Ansible-version-Base OS version.
2.12-alpine-3.15Dockerfile2.12-alpine-3.14Dockerfile2.12-alpine-3.13Dockerfile2.12-alpine-3.12Dockerfile2.12-ubuntu-20.04Dockerfile2.12-bullseyeDockerfile2.12-bullseye-slimDockerfile- Currently, Ansible 2.12 is not working on Centos 7, Centos 8, Rocky Linux 8, Debian Stretch, Debian Buster or Ubuntu 18.04 due to dependency on Python 3.8+.
This includes ansible-core + ansible.
latest,alpine,2.11-alpine-3.15Dockerfile2.11-alpine-3.14Dockerfile2.11-alpine-3.13Dockerfile2.11-alpine-3.12Dockerfile2.11-ubuntu-20.04Dockerfile2.11-ubuntu-18.04Dockerfile2.11-rockylinux-8Dockerfile2.11-bullseyeDockerfile2.11-bullseye-slimDockerfile2.11-busterDockerfile2.11-buster-slimDockerfile2.11-stretchDockerfile2.11-stretch-slimDockerfile2.11-centos-7Dockerfile2.11-centos-8Dockerfile
This includes ansible-base.
2.10-alpine-3.15Dockerfile2.10-alpine-3.14Dockerfile2.10-alpine-3.13Dockerfile2.10-alpine-3.12Dockerfile2.10-ubuntu-20.04Dockerfile2.10-ubuntu-18.04Dockerfile2.10-rockylinux-8Dockerfile2.10-bullseyeDockerfile2.10-bullseye-slimDockerfile2.10-busterDockerfile2.10-buster-slimDockerfile2.10-stretchDockerfile2.10-stretch-slimDockerfile2.10-centos-7Dockerfile2.10-centos-8Dockerfile
This runs the ansible package.
2.9-alpine-3.15Dockerfile2.9-alpine-3.14Dockerfile2.9-alpine-3.13Dockerfile2.9-alpine-3.12Dockerfile2.9-ubuntu-20.04Dockerfile2.9-ubuntu-18.04Dockerfile2.9-rockylinux-8Dockerfile2.9-bullseyeDockerfile2.9-bullseye-slimDockerfile2.9-busterDockerfile2.9-buster-slimDockerfile2.9-stretchDockerfile2.9-stretch-slimDockerfile2.9-centos-7Dockerfile2.9-centos-8Dockerfile
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**You will likely need to mount required directories into your container to make it run (or build on top of what is here).
$~ docker run --rm -it willhallonline/ansible:latest /bin/sh$~ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/id_rsa willhallonline/ansible:latest /bin/sh$~ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/id_rsa willhallonline/ansible:latest ansible-playbook playbook.ymlYou 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- Written and maintained by Will Hall