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 2.9: 2.9.27
- Ansible 2.10: 2.10.17
- Ansible 2.11: 2.11.12
- Ansible 2.12: 2.12.10
- Ansible 2.13: 2.13.11
- Ansible 2.14: 2.14.8
- Ansible 2.15: 2.15.2
Compatibility
- 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+.
- Currently, Ansible 2.13+ is not working on Ubuntu 20.04 due to dependency on Python 3.10+.
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.
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 (2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15)
This includes ansible-core + ansible.
| Base Image (↓) \ Ansible Version (→) | Dockerfile | 2.12 | 2.13 | 2.14 | 2.15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest | Dockerfile | latest* |
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| Alpine | Dockerfile | alpine* |
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| Ubuntu | Dockerfile | ubuntu |
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| Alpine 3.14 | Dockerfile | 2.12-alpine-3.14 |
2.13-alpine-3.14 |
2.14-alpine-3.14 |
2.15-alpine-3.14 |
| Alpine 3.15 | Dockerfile | 2.12-alpine-3.15 |
2.13-alpine-3.15 |
2.14-alpine-3.15 |
2.15-alpine-3.15 |
| Alpine 3.16 | Dockerfile | 2.12-alpine-3.16 |
2.13-alpine-3.16 |
2.14-alpine-3.16 |
2.15-alpine-3.16 |
| Alpine 3.17 | Dockerfile | 2.12-alpine-3.17 |
2.13-alpine-3.17 |
2.14-alpine-3.17 |
2.15-alpine-3.17 |
| Alpine 3.18 | Dockerfile | 2.12-alpine-3.18 |
2.13-alpine-3.18 |
2.14-alpine-3.18 |
2.15-alpine-3.18 |
| Bullseye (Debian 11) | Dockerfile | 2.12-bullseye |
2.13-bullseye |
2.14-bullseye |
2.15-bullseye |
| Bullseye Slim (Debian 11) | Dockerfile | 2.12-bullseye-slim |
2.13-bullseye-slim |
2.14-bullseye-slim |
2.15-bullseye-slim |
| Rocky Linux 9 | Dockerfile | 2.12-rockylinux-9 |
2.13-rockylinux-9 |
2.14-rockylinux-9 |
2.15-rockylinux-9 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 | Dockerfile | 2.12-ubuntu-20.04 |
2.13-ubuntu-20.04 |
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| Ubuntu 22.04 | Dockerfile | 2.12-ubuntu-22.04 |
2.13-ubuntu-22.04 |
2.14-ubuntu-22.04 |
2.15-ubuntu-22.04 |
ARM Releases
There is some support for Arm architecture.
linux/arm64(Macbook and AWS Graviton) tolatestandalpineimage tags.linux/arm/v7andlinux/arm/v6toarmimage tag (Raspberry Pi).
Older releases
- Ansible 2.11 includes
ansible-core+ansible. This also requires Python 3. - Ansible 2.10 includes
ansible-base. - Ansible 2.9 includes
ansible.
| Base Image (↓) \ Ansible Version (→) | 2.11 | 2.10 | 2.9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine 3.14 | 2.11-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile |
2.10-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile |
2.9-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile |
| Alpine 3.15 | 2.11-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile |
2.10-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile |
2.9-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile |
| Alpine 3.16 | 2.11-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile |
2.10-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile |
2.9-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile |
| Alpine 3.17 | 2.11-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile |
2.10-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile |
2.9-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile |
| Bullseye (Debian 11) | 2.11-bullseye Dockerfile |
2.10-bullseye Dockerfile |
2.9-bullseye Dockerfile |
| Bullseye Slim (Debian 11) | 2.11-bullseye-slim Dockerfile |
2.10-bullseye-slim Dockerfile |
2.9-bullseye-slim Dockerfile |
| Buster (Debian 10) | 2.11-buster Dockerfile |
2.10-buster Dockerfile |
2.9-buster Dockerfile |
| Buster Slim (Debian 10) | 2.11-buster-slim Dockerfile |
2.10-buster-slim Dockerfile |
2.9-buster-slim Dockerfile |
| Centos 7 | 2.11-centos-7 Dockerfile |
2.10-centos-7 Dockerfile |
2.9-centos-7 Dockerfile |
| Rocky Linux 8 | 2.11-rockylinux-8 Dockerfile |
2.10-rockylinux-8 Dockerfile |
2.9-rockylinux-8 Dockerfile |
| Rocky Linux 9 | 2.11-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile |
2.10-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile |
2.9-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile |
| Ubuntu 18.04 | 2.11-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile |
2.10-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile |
2.9-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile |
| Ubuntu 20.04 | 2.11-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile |
2.10-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile |
2.9-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile |
| Ubuntu 22.04 | 2.11-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile |
2.10-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile |
2.9-ubuntu-22.04 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.{python-version}/site-packages/ansible_mitogen/plugins/
strategy = mitogen_linearRunning
**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/shMount local directory and ssh key
$~ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/id_rsa willhallonline/ansible:latest /bin/shInjecting commands
$~ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/ansible -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/id_rsa willhallonline/ansible:latest ansible-playbook playbook.ymlBash 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.ymlMaintainer
- Written and maintained by Will Hall