docker - manage docker containers

• DEPRECATED
• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples

DEPRECATED

In 2.2 use docker_container and docker_image instead.

Synopsis

• This is the original Ansible module for managing the Docker container life cycle.
• NOTE: Additional and newer modules are available. For the latest on orchestrating containers with Ansible visit our Getting Started with Docker Guide at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/guide_docker.rst.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• python >= 2.6
• docker-py >= 0.3.0
• The docker server >= 0.10.0

Options

Examples

# Containers are matched either by name (if provided) or by an exact match of
# the image they were launched with and the command they're running. The module
# can accept either a name to target a container uniquely, or a count to operate
# on multiple containers at once when it makes sense to do so.

# Ensure that a data container with the name "mydata" exists. If no container
# by this name exists, it will be created, but not started.

- name: data container
  docker:
    name: mydata
    image: busybox
    state: present
    volumes:
    - /data

# Ensure that a Redis server is running, using the volume from the data
# container. Expose the default Redis port.

- name: redis container
  docker:
    name: myredis
    image: redis
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes
    state: started
    expose:
    - 6379
    volumes_from:
    - mydata

# Ensure that a container of your application server is running. This will:
# - pull the latest version of your application image from DockerHub.
# - ensure that a container is running with the specified name and exact image.
#   If any configuration options have changed, the existing container will be
#   stopped and removed, and a new one will be launched in its place.
# - link this container to the existing redis container launched above with
#   an alias.
# - grant the container read write permissions for the host's /dev/sda device
#   through a node named /dev/xvda
# - bind TCP port 9000 within the container to port 8080 on all interfaces
#   on the host.
# - bind UDP port 9001 within the container to port 8081 on the host, only
#   listening on localhost.
# - specify 2 ip resolutions.
# - set the environment variable SECRET_KEY to "ssssh".

- name: application container
  docker:
    name: myapplication
    image: someuser/appimage
    state: reloaded
    pull: always
    links:
    - "myredis:aliasedredis"
    devices:
    - "/dev/sda:/dev/xvda:rwm"
    ports:
    - "8080:9000"
    - "127.0.0.1:8081:9001/udp"
    extra_hosts:
      host1: "192.168.0.1"
      host2: "192.168.0.2"
    env:
        SECRET_KEY: ssssh

# Ensure that exactly five containers of another server are running with this
# exact image and command. If fewer than five are running, more will be launched;
# if more are running, the excess will be stopped.

- name: load-balanced containers
  docker:
    state: reloaded
    count: 5
    image: someuser/anotherappimage
    command: sleep 1d

# Unconditionally restart a service container. This may be useful within a
# handler, for example.

- name: application service
  docker:
    name: myservice
    image: someuser/serviceimage
    state: restarted

# Stop all containers running the specified image.

- name: obsolete container
  docker:
    image: someuser/oldandbusted
    state: stopped

# Stop and remove a container with the specified name.

- name: obsolete container
  docker:
    name: ohno
    image: someuser/oldandbusted
    state: absent

# Example Syslogging Output

- name: myservice container
  docker:
    name: myservice
    image: someservice/someimage
    state: reloaded
    log_driver: syslog
    log_opt:
      syslog-address: tcp://my-syslog-server:514
      syslog-facility: daemon
      syslog-tag: myservice

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