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 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: 2.12.9
• Ansible 2.13: 2.13.7

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.

This includes ansible-core + ansible.

• 2.13-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile
• latest, alpine, 2.13-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile
• 2.13-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile
• 2.13-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile
• 2.13-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile
• 2.13-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.13-bullseye Dockerfile
• 2.13-bullseye-slim Dockerfile
• 2.13-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile
• Currently, Ansible 2.13 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.

• 2.12-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile
• 2.12-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile
• 2.12-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile
• 2.12-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile
• 2.12-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile
• 2.12-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.12-bullseye Dockerfile
• 2.12-bullseye-slim Dockerfile
• 2.12-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile
• 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.

• 2.11-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile
• 2.11-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile
• 2.11-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile
• 2.11-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile
• 2.11-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile
• 2.11-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.11-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile
• 2.11-rockylinux-8 Dockerfile
• 2.11-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile
• 2.11-bullseye Dockerfile
• 2.11-bullseye-slim Dockerfile
• 2.11-buster Dockerfile
• 2.11-buster-slim Dockerfile
• 2.11-centos-7 Dockerfile

This includes ansible-base.

• 2.10-alpine-3.17 Dockerfile
• 2.10-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile
• 2.10-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile
• 2.10-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile
• 2.10-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile
• 2.10-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.10-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile
• 2.10-rockylinux-8 Dockerfile
• 2.10-rockylinux-9 Dockerfile
• 2.10-bullseye Dockerfile
• 2.10-bullseye-slim Dockerfile
• 2.10-buster Dockerfile
• 2.10-buster-slim Dockerfile
• 2.10-centos-7 Dockerfile

This runs the ansible package.

• 2.9-alpine-3.16 Dockerfile
• 2.9-alpine-3.15 Dockerfile
• 2.9-alpine-3.14 Dockerfile
• 2.9-ubuntu-22.04 Dockerfile
• 2.9-ubuntu-20.04 Dockerfile
• 2.9-ubuntu-18.04 Dockerfile
• 2.9-rockylinux-8 Dockerfile
• 2.9-bullseye Dockerfile
• 2.9-bullseye-slim Dockerfile
• 2.9-buster Dockerfile
• 2.9-buster-slim Dockerfile
• 2.9-centos-7 Dockerfile

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.yml

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

• Written and maintained by Will Hall