Ansible Playbook Base docker image

Base docker image for 🎁 ansible playbooks

Usage

See ./example folder

1. Creare own Dockerfile based on this docker image docker.io/devincan/ansible-playbook-base:v0.4
2. Add your playbooks
3. Build
4. Run

Why?

1. 🦾 Modern CI ready.
2. 🏺 Caching - Ansible roles baked in docker image upfront.
3. 🎡 Reproducible runs with same ansible, python libraries, roles, ansible.cfg, playbooks.
4. ⚗️ When you want to run playbooks on Windows

How does it work?

1. Build docker image including everything needed for playbook to be executed ( Ansible, Python libraries, roles and playbooks )
2. Run this docker image with mounted inventory.yml and id_rsa key from you local or CI
3. Profit 🎩

What exaclty base image does?

1. Setup ansible senzible defaults

   • ANSIBLE_INVENTORY inventory.yml
   • ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR True
   • ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING False
   • ANSIBLE_COMMAND_WARNINGS False
   • ANSIBLE_RETRY_FILES_ENABLED False
   • ANSIBLE_GATHERING explicit
   • ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_ROLE_VARS True
   • ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER pddevops
   • ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH roles
   • ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST profile_tasks
   • ANSIBLE_SSH_RETRIES 10
   • ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH /dev/shm/cp%%h-%%p-%%r
   • ANSIBE_OPTIONS "-v"

2. Add entrypoint.sh

   This entrypoint will copy baked roles, playbooks and other files from /ansible/baked to /ansible workdir. Then it will run site.yml playbook.

3. Add essential Python/Ansible dependencies listed in requirements.txt