Ansible Container Cheatsheet

I'm not using ansible-container because it's horribly broken. :-( At least, I can't get it to run on Debian Stretch.

It works until I add a role, then it fails. I gave it some time and attention and it's just not working.

Commands

ansible-container init	Create a new ansible-container project in the current directory
ansible-container build	With ansible-container you have to 'build' before you can 'run'.
ansible-container run --production
ansible-container restart
ansible-container stop	Stop container(s). Similar to "docker down".
ansible-container destroy	Stop container(s) and remove related images. Similar to "docker-compose down".
ansible-container push --username username --tag tag	Send the container images up to the Docker Hub (or other registry).
ansible-container deploy	Deploy by sending the project up to a cloud service provider, either OpenShift or Kubernetes currently.

Project files created by 'init'

project/
  ansible.cfg - primary ansible config
  ansible-requirements.txt - pip dependencies
  container.yml - sort of like docker-compose.yml
  meta.yml - project metadata
  requirements.yml - roles

dumb-init

https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init

apt install dumb-init