Ansible images

A set of images to make it easier to work with Ansible, AWX and so on, on ARM.

Python versions:

• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11

Quick note about using docker buildx bake for building single arch images locally. Any of the images can be built using the command

docker buildx bake [image-name] \
  --progress=plain --set "*.platform=linux/$(uname -m)" --load

By default bake will use the docker-container driver, which uses a BuildKit container under the hood. That comes with the side effect of built images not being available in docker. If you're building an image which has no other image dependency, or if you're fine with using a remote image, then nothing else should be done.

However if you want to build images while reusing local built docker images then you need to switch the driver used by bake. Run the following command to do that:

# List available drivers.
docker buildx ls
# Pick one that says `docker` under DRIVER/ENDPOINT and in the 'running' STATUS.
docker buildx use default
# or
docker buildx use colima

python-crossbuild

A base python image with crossenv installed, providing the ability to cross-compile python packages for multiarch (commonly amd64 & arm64). Using this method significantly reduces build time for multiarch images that require building Python packages from source, as opposed to using qemu emulation for building the whole image.

ansible

Starts from the python-crossbuild image and installs Ansible.

ansible-test

Starts from the python-crossbuild image and installs Ansible, pytest and their dependencies for all the supported versions of python.

awx-resources

Builds on the ansible image, installs awxkit and the playbooks for importing and exporting AWX resources. Handy for tracking your inventories, job templates and so on in code.