willhallonline/ansible repository overview

⁠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.

⁠Current Ansible Core Versions

These are the latest Ansible Core versions running within the containers:

• Ansible 2.16: 2.16.14
• Ansible 2.17: 2.17.14
• Ansible 2.18: 2.18.9
• Ansible 2.19: 2.19.2
• Ansible 2.20: 2.20.0
• Ansible 2.21: 2.21.0
• Older versions are provided within the unmaintained section, including 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15.
• More availability on Ansible versions on Ansible Release Documentation⁠ and Ansible-core to Python compatibility⁠.

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

⁠Immutable Images

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.

⁠Ansible Core (2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21)

This includes:

• ansible-core (https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core/⁠)
• ansible (https://pypi.org/project/ansible/⁠)
• ansible-lint (https://pypi.org/project/ansible-lint/⁠)

ARM (ARM64/ARMv7) releases are available for all container images.

⁠Older versions (2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15)

OS:

• Rockylinux 9
• Debian Bullseye
• Ubuntu 20.04

Ansible-core:

• Ansible 2.12: ...
• Ansible 2.13: 2.13.13
• Ansible 2.14: 2.14.18
• Ansible 2.15: 2.15.13

Various older versions are available in the older-releases⁠ documentation.

⁠Running

⁠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
docker-ansible-cmd ansible-playbook playbook.yml

To accelerate using Mitogen look into Using Mitogen⁠.

⁠Maintainer

• Written and maintained by Will Hall⁠