Build docker images with ansible.
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docksible is a utility tool that helps you build docker images provisioned with ansible's playbooks.
There are other ways to provision docker containers with ansible, like simply using ansible-playbook with ansible_connection set to docker or using ansible-container. However, at least for me, neither of the available solutions was convenient enough to use. They either required some extra glue code or flooded my machine with multiple dependencies. While what I wanted was to have a single binary through which I could provision my containers using exactly the same playbooks I use for VMs or bare metal hosts. And so docksible was born.
Ahh, and I also wanted to learn Go.
The only requirements for docksible are: docksible binary, docker engine and a playbook to run.
Assuming you have following structure of ansible's scripts:
ansible/
- playbook.yml
- roles/*
you enter ansible directory and you run:
docksible --tag my_image centos:7.3.1611 playbook.yml
And soon you have image my_image based on CentOS 7.3 ready waiting for you in your docker engine.
See here for full reference and more examples.
