Dockerized Ansible command line tools

Use Ansible command line tools inside Docker in CI or Local Environment.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest
• 1, 1.0, 1.0.0

How to use it

Docker run

• ansible: Define and run a single task ‘playbook’ against a set of hosts.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible all -m ping

• ansible-playbook: Runs Ansible playbooks, executing the defined tasks on the targeted hosts.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-playbook site.yml

• ansible-vault: Encryption/decryption utility for Ansible data files.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-vault encrypt_string

• ansible-galaxy: Manage Ansible roles in shared repositories

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-galaxy login

• ansible-console: A REPL that allows for running ad-hoc tasks against a chosen inventory.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-console

• ansible-config: Config command line class.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-config dump

• ansible-doc: Plugin documentation tool.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-doc file

• ansible-inventory: Display or dump the configured inventory as Ansible sees it.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-inventory --host localhost

• ansible-pull: Pulls playbooks from a VCS repo and executes them for the local host.

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace/ -it gdiener/ansible ansible-pull -U git@github.com:gadiener/unknown-ansible-repository.git site.yml

⁉️ This command is useless in the Docker context but you can still do it 😄

Add shell aliases

To install the aliases script you can use the following commands:

curl -o /usr/local/bin/ansible-aliases https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gadiener/ansible/master/ansible-aliases.sh
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ansible-aliases

Then you can use the script.

$ ansible-aliases -h

Usage: ansible-aliases [OPTIONS]

>> Install dockerized Ansible tools aliases

Options:
   -k, --key string         The path of the SSH key to use
   -w, --workspace string   The path of the workspace to use (default $(pwd))
   -t, --tag string         The Docker tag to use
   -e, --env string         Set environment variables
       --remove             Uninstall Ansible aliases

ansible-aliases -k $SSH_KEY_PATH -e 'ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False'

After installing the aliases, the shell must be restarted.

To remove aliases you can use the following commands:

ansible-aliases --remove
rm /usr/local/bin/ansible-aliases

Configuration

Environment variables

The SSH_KEY variable must contains che SSH key used by Ansible to connect to the cluster.

SSH_KEY=$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa)

Volumes

To share your tasks or playbook's files you can bind a volume to /workspace.

You can bind a volume to /etc/ansible to share your local conficuration with Ansible in docker.

⛔️ WARNING: Do not add a volume in ~/.ssh/:/home/ansible/.ssh/ without the read-only flag. With the environment variable SSH_KEY set you'll lose your private key!

Use it in GitLab CI

@todo: I'm waiting for your pull request 😉

Contributing

How to get involved:

1. Star the project!
2. Answer questions that come through GitHub issues
3. Report a bug that you find

This project follows the GitFlow branching model. The master branch always reflects a production-ready state while the latest development is taking place in the develop branch.

Each time you want to work on a fix or a new feature, create a new branch based on the develop branch: git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME develop. Only pull requests to the develop branch will be merged.

Pull requests are highly appreciated.

Solve a problem. Features are great, but even better is cleaning-up and fixing issues in the code that you discover.

Versioning

This project is maintained by using the Semantic Versioning Specification (SemVer).

Contributors

Gabriele Diener @gadiener

Flavio De Stefano @kopiro

Copyright and license

Copyright 2018 Gabriele Diener under the MIT license.