Managing containers using Ansible

The Ansible collection, community.docker (https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/docker), contains more than 25 Ansible modules and ~10 plugins for connection, inventory, and more. These modules will help you manage containers, container images, images in the container registry, the Docker network, Docker volumes, Docker swarm, and other container-based operations.

If you are using Podman, then check out the containers.podman collection (https://galaxy.ansible.com/containers/podman) in Ansible Galaxy.

In the upcoming sections, you will learn how to build, start, and manage containers using Ansible.

Installing the Ansible Docker collection

Installing a collection is straightforward, as you learned in the previous chapters:

1. Update your ansible.cfg with the collection path:

Figure 10.7 – ansible.cfg with the collection and role paths

2. Install the community.docker Ansible collection:

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