Ansible in Docker

Dockerfile used to build xronosinc/ansible docker image.

Description

Dockerfile for Ansible. This dockerfile installs:

• ansible
• git (needed to install roles from private git repos)
• ssh (needed to install roles from private git repos)
• docker python module
• boto3 (support for some AWS features)
• github3.py (allows querying github repositories)

Platform support

This dockerfile builds for:

• linux/amd64
• linux/arm64

Build and run the image

docker build . -t xronosinc/ansible:latest

Run the image with the --version flag (equivalent to ansible-playbook --version):

docker run -it --tty --rm xronosinc/ansible:latest --version

ansible-playbook is the default entrypoint. Any additional arguments from the docker run command will be passed along. Alternately add the flag --entrypoint /bin/bash to open an interactive shell.

Multiarch build

Build for multiple architectures using the buildx command.

docker buildx build . --tag xronosinc/ansible:latest --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64