openeuler/ansible repository overview

⁠Quick reference

• The official ansible docker image.

• Maintained by: openEuler CloudNative SIG⁠.

• Where to get help: openEuler CloudNative SIG⁠, openEuler⁠.

⁠Ansible | openEuler

Current ansible docker images are built on the openEuler⁠. This repository is free to use and exempted from per-user rate limits.

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy.

Learn more on Ansible Collaborative⁠.

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

The tag of each ansible docker image is consist of the version of ansible-core and the version of basic image. The details are as follows

⁠Usage

In this usage, users can select the corresponding {Tag} based on their requirements.

• Pull the openeuler/ansible image from docker

  docker pull openeuler/ansible:{Tag}
  

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• Check the installed Ansible version

  docker run --rm openeuler/ansible:{Tag} ansible --version
  

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• Run an Ansible ad-hoc command

  Create an inventory file named inventory in the current directory:

  [web]
  192.168.1.10
  

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  Then run:

  docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/work -w /work openeuler/ansible:{Tag} \
      ansible web -i inventory -m ping
  

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• Run an Ansible playbook

  Create a playbook named site.yml in the current directory:

  - name: Ping all hosts
    hosts: web
    tasks:
      - name: Ping
        ansible.builtin.ping:
  

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  Then run:

  docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/work -w /work openeuler/ansible:{Tag} \
      ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml
  

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• Start a long-running container for exploration

  docker run -d --name my-ansible openeuler/ansible:{Tag} sleep infinity
  

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• View the container logs

  docker logs -f my-ansible
  

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• To get an interactive shell

  docker exec -it my-ansible bash
  

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⁠Question and answering

If you have any questions or want to use some special features, please submit an issue or a pull request on openeuler-docker-images⁠.