A container for executing Ansible without installing it

Updates

2020/01/27

First release

Features

It's configured to read the hosts file at /root/hosts which should be mounted to your working dir.

Mounting points

/root -> your working dir

Tag	Ubuntu Version
latest	Bionic

Usage examples

Login to Ansible container

docker run --rm -it -v "C:\ansible:/root" jairbj/ansible:latest

Run an ansible command

docker run --rm -it -v "C:\ansible:/root" jairbj/ansible:latest ansible all -m ping

Bonus

Powershell Shortcuts

You'll find at ps1Shortcuts folder some PowerShell scripts that forwards commands to the container and print the result.
You'll find one .ps1 file for each Ansible executable available in the container.
You'll also find the ansible-container.ps1 which opens the ansible container for manually run commands.

Examples

.\ansible.ps1 all -m ping

.\ansible-inventory.ps1 --list

jairbj/docker-ansible