docker_container – manage docker containers

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Manage the life cycle of docker containers.
• Supports check mode. Run with --check and --diff to view config difference and list of actions to be taken.

Requirements

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

• Docker API >= 1.20
• Docker SDK for Python: Please note that the docker-py Python module has been superseded by docker (see here for details). For Python 2.6, docker-py must be used. Otherwise, it is recommended to install the docker Python module. Note that both modules should not be installed at the same time. Also note that when both modules are installed and one of them is uninstalled, the other might no longer function and a reinstall of it is required.
• Docker SDK for Python >= 1.8.0 (use docker-py for Python 2.6)

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Create a data container
  docker_container:
    name: mydata
    image: busybox
    volumes:
      - /data

- name: Re-create a redis container
  docker_container:
    name: myredis
    image: redis
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes
    state: present
    recreate: yes
    exposed_ports:
      - 6379
    volumes_from:
      - mydata

- name: Restart a container
  docker_container:
    name: myapplication
    image: someuser/appimage
    state: started
    restart: yes
    links:
     - "myredis:aliasedredis"
    devices:
     - "/dev/sda:/dev/xvda:rwm"
    ports:
     - "8080:9000"
     - "127.0.0.1:8081:9001/udp"
    env:
        SECRET_KEY: "ssssh"
        # Values which might be parsed as numbers, booleans or other types by the YAML parser need to be quoted
        BOOLEAN_KEY: "yes"

- name: Container present
  docker_container:
    name: mycontainer
    state: present
    image: ubuntu:14.04
    command: sleep infinity

- name: Stop a container
  docker_container:
    name: mycontainer
    state: stopped

- name: Start 4 load-balanced containers
  docker_container:
    name: "container{{ item }}"
    recreate: yes
    image: someuser/anotherappimage
    command: sleep 1d
  with_sequence: count=4

- name: remove container
  docker_container:
    name: ohno
    state: absent

- name: Syslogging output
  docker_container:
    name: myservice
    image: busybox
    log_driver: syslog
    log_options:
      syslog-address: tcp://my-syslog-server:514
      syslog-facility: daemon
      # NOTE: in Docker 1.13+ the "syslog-tag" option was renamed to "tag" for
      # older docker installs, use "syslog-tag" instead
      tag: myservice

- name: Create db container and connect to network
  docker_container:
    name: db_test
    image: "postgres:latest"
    networks:
      - name: "{{ docker_network_name }}"

- name: Start container, connect to network and link
  docker_container:
    name: sleeper
    image: ubuntu:14.04
    networks:
      - name: TestingNet
        ipv4_address: "172.1.1.100"
        aliases:
          - sleepyzz
        links:
          - db_test:db
      - name: TestingNet2

- name: Start a container with a command
  docker_container:
    name: sleepy
    image: ubuntu:14.04
    command: ["sleep", "infinity"]

- name: Add container to networks
  docker_container:
    name: sleepy
    networks:
      - name: TestingNet
        ipv4_address: 172.1.1.18
        links:
          - sleeper
      - name: TestingNet2
        ipv4_address: 172.1.10.20

- name: Update network with aliases
  docker_container:
    name: sleepy
    networks:
      - name: TestingNet
        aliases:
          - sleepyz
          - zzzz

- name: Remove container from one network
  docker_container:
    name: sleepy
    networks:
      - name: TestingNet2
    purge_networks: yes

- name: Remove container from all networks
  docker_container:
    name: sleepy
    purge_networks: yes

- name: Start a container and use an env file
  docker_container:
    name: agent
    image: jenkinsci/ssh-slave
    env_file: /var/tmp/jenkins/agent.env

- name: Create a container with limited capabilities
  docker_container:
    name: sleepy
    image: ubuntu:16.04
    command: sleep infinity
    capabilities:
      - sys_time
    cap_drop:
      - all

- name: Finer container restart/update control
  docker_container:
    name: test
    image: ubuntu:18.04
    env:
      arg1: "true"
      arg2: "whatever"
    volumes:
      - /tmp:/tmp
    comparisons:
      image: ignore   # don't restart containers with older versions of the image
      env: strict   # we want precisely this environment
      volumes: allow_more_present   # if there are more volumes, that's ok, as long as `/tmp:/tmp` is there

- name: Finer container restart/update control II
  docker_container:
    name: test
    image: ubuntu:18.04
    env:
      arg1: "true"
      arg2: "whatever"
    comparisons:
      '*': ignore  # by default, ignore *all* options (including image)
      env: strict   # except for environment variables; there, we want to be strict

- name: Start container with healthstatus
  docker_container:
    name: nginx-proxy
    image: nginx:1.13
    state: started
    healthcheck:
      # Check if nginx server is healthy by curl'ing the server.
      # If this fails or timeouts, the healthcheck fails.
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://nginx.host.com"]
      interval: 1m30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 30s

- name: Remove healthcheck from container
  docker_container:
    name: nginx-proxy
    image: nginx:1.13
    state: started
    healthcheck:
      # The "NONE" check needs to be specified
      test: ["NONE"]

- name: start container with block device read limit
  docker_container:
    name: test
    image: ubuntu:18.04
    state: started
    device_read_bps:
      # Limit read rate for /dev/sda to 20 mebibytes per second
      - path: /dev/sda
        rate: 20M
    device_read_iops:
      # Limit read rate for /dev/sdb to 300 IO per second
      - path: /dev/sdb
        rate: 300

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Cove Schneider (@cove)
• Joshua Conner (@joshuaconner)
• Pavel Antonov (@softzilla)
• Thomas Steinbach (@ThomasSteinbach)
• Philippe Jandot (@zfil)
• Daan Oosterveld (@dusdanig)
• Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
• Kassian Sun (@kassiansun)
• Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)