containers.podman.podman_container – Manage podman containers

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Start, stop, restart and manage Podman containers

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• podman

Parameters

Examples

- name: Run container
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: container
    image: quay.io/bitnami/wildfly
    state: started

- name: Create a data container
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: mydata
    image: busybox
    volume:
      - /tmp/data

- name: Re-create a redis container with systemd service file generated in /tmp/
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: myredis
    image: redis
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes
    state: present
    recreate: yes
    expose:
      - 6379
    volumes_from:
      - mydata
    generate_systemd:
      path: /tmp/
      restart_policy: always
      time: 120
      names: true
      container_prefix: ainer

- name: Restart a container
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: myapplication
    image: redis
    state: started
    restart: yes
    etc_hosts:
        other: "127.0.0.1"
    restart_policy: "no"
    device: "/dev/sda:/dev/xvda:rwm"
    ports:
        - "8080:9000"
        - "127.0.0.1:8081:9001/udp"
    env:
        SECRET_KEY: "ssssh"
        BOOLEAN_KEY: "yes"

- name: Container present
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: mycontainer
    state: present
    image: ubuntu:14.04
    command: "sleep 1d"

- name: Stop a container
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: mycontainer
    state: stopped

- name: Start 4 load-balanced containers
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: "container{{ item }}"
    recreate: yes
    image: someuser/anotherappimage
    command: sleep 1d
  with_sequence: count=4

- name: remove container
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: ohno
    state: absent

- name: Writing output
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: myservice
    image: busybox
    log_options: path=/var/log/container/mycontainer.json
    log_driver: k8s-file

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Authors

• Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)