Ansible alpine based container image

This container image wraps ansible on alpine, zsh, oh-my-zsh and bundles useful tools and CLI utilities. It can be used in two modes non-interactive and interactive.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: don't use this container on production to avoid security problems it uses fixuid.

Non-Interective mode

In this case you can use the container image directly from docker hub, you will start a privileged container. This is useful for one-off commands, for example:

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/code -w /code plasmops/ansible ansible-playbook myplay.yml

Interactive mode

Used to provide you with and Ansible development sandbox. With everything ready-to-go. It's recommended that first you create a dedicated home volume to be able safely upgrade/reinstall container.

Creating the toolbox container

# create volume first
docker volume create example-ansible-home

# initiate a container
docker run --name example-ansible \
   -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
   -v example-ansible-home:/home/fixuid \
   -v $(pwd):/code -w /code plasmops/ansible

Using the toolbox container

First we need to initiate a container, you need to change directory of your ansible project (here example project).

# change to a project directory
cd /path/to/example/project

# starting and attaching to an existing project container
docker start example-ansible && docker attach example-ansible

# exec-ing into the sanbox container
docker exec -ti --env COLUMNS=`tput cols` --env LINES=`tput lines` example-ansible zsh

Note that passing the given environment settings fixes the terminal size and colors inside the container, it's advised that you create a special shell profile alias for this like:

alias deti="docker exec -ti --env COLUMNS=`tput cols` --env LINES=`tput lines`"

User environment, zsh theme and plugins

It's also possible to configure zsh on-build refer to the section and supply the following arguments as bellow:

  --build-arg ZSH_PLUGINS="git pyenv" \
  --build-arg ZSH_THEME="cloud" \

By default cloud theme and git plugin are used by providing the above options you can change this behavior.

License and Authors

Author:: Denis Baryshev ([email protected])