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community.general.jail – Run tasks in jails

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.jail.

Synopsis

  • Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing jail

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
remote_addr
string
Default:
"inventory_hostname"
var: ansible_host
var: ansible_jail_host
Path to the jail
remote_user
string
var: ansible_user
var: ansible_jail_user
User to execute as inside the jail

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/jail_connection.html