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containers.podman.podman_volume_info module – Gather info about podman volumes

Note

This module is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.17.0).

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 containers.podman. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.podman_volume_info.

Synopsis

  • Gather info about podman volumes with podman inspect command.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • Podman installed on host

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

executable

string

Path to podman executable if it is not in the $PATH on the machine running podman

Default: "podman"

name

string

Name of the volume

Examples

- name: Gather info about all present volumes
  podman_volume_info:

- name: Gather info about specific volume
  podman_volume_info:
    name: specific_volume

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

volumes

list / elements=string

Facts from all or specified volumes

Returned: always

Sample: [{"CreatedAt": "2023-11-30T16:41:31.310865559+02:00", "Driver": "local", "Labels": {}, "LockNumber": 18, "MountCount": 0, "Mountpoint": "/home/user/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/postgres9/_data", "Name": "postgres9", "NeedsChown": true, "NeedsCopyUp": true, "Options": {}, "Scope": "local"}]

Authors

  • Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/containers/podman/podman_volume_info_module.html