Ansible Container is a tool to build Docker images and orchestrate containers using only Ansible playbooks.

Use Ansible Container to manage container lifecycle from development, through testing, to production:

• ansible-container init

  Creates a directory ansible with files to get you started. Read the comments and edit to suit your needs.

• ansible-container build

  Creates images from your Ansible playbooks.

• ansible-container run

  Launches the containers specified in the orchestration document, container.yml, for testing the built images. The format of container.yml is nearly identical to Docker Compose.

• ansible-container push

  Pushes the project's images to a container registry of your choice.

• ansible-container shipit

  Generates the necessary playbook and role to deploy your containers on a supported cloud provider.

Install using pip, the Python package manager:

$ sudo pip install ansible-container

Or, to install without root privileges, use virtualenv to first create a Python sandbox:

$ virtualenv ansible-container
$ source ansible-container/bin/activate
$ pip install ansible-container

For more details, prerequisite, and instructions on installing the latest development release, please view our Installation Guide.

For examples and a tour of Ansible Container visit our docs site.

• Visit Community Information and Contributing for all kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project. We welcome your feedback and ideas!
• Review CONTRIBUTORS.md, if you're considering submitting code.
• Join the mailing list
• Open an issue
• Join the #ansible-container channel on irc.freenode.net.

• The develop branch is the release actively under development.
• The master branch corresponds to the latest stable release available at PyPi.
• Submit pull requests for bug fixes and new features to develop.
• View the roadmap for a list of features currently under development.
• Contributors welcome! Get started by reviewing CONTRIBUTORS.md.

View AUTHORS for a list contributors to Ansible Container. Thanks everyone!

Ansible Container is an Ansible by Red Hat sponsored project.