Recently, Ansible release 2.1 version with lots of new feature. One of the interesting feature is the management for docker.
Redhat also announced the Ansible Container project[0][1], which can build docker images by using Ansible Playbooks. No more write the ugly Dockerfile script. I think this will be more graceful. Here the explanation that why not use Dockerfile from ansible-container readme file. A Dockerfile is not much more than a script with hand-crafted shell commands. We're well past the point where we should be managing build processes with manually maintained series of shell scripts. That's why we wrote Ansible in the first place, and this is just as applicable to containers. Ansible Container permits orchestration even during the build process, whereas docker build does not. For example, in a Django project, your VCS may contain a bunch of sources for static assets that need to be compiled and then collected. With Ansible Container, you can compile the static assets in your Django container and then collect them into your static file serving container. Many people use Docker for development environments only but then use Ansible playbooks to push out to staging or production. This allows you to use the same playbooks and roles in your Docker dev environment as in your production environments. Ansible Container does all of this without installing SSH, leaving Ansible artifacts on your built images, or having excess layers to the union filesystem. I also pushed a PS to implement almost the same thing for Kolla[3]. There many benefit for this. 1. more easy to understand. The original base/Dockerfile is too long, mixed with different base image logical and different install type. Whereas in the new implement, it is more clearly. it is split into multi YAML file. 2. easy to extend. We can reuse the role concept for the Ansible. For example, when you want to extend the neutron-server container. You can write your own roles, like neutron-server-lbaas role, and just add this to the neutron-server playbooks. In this way, we can implement the customize issue. ( this will implement later.) 3. It is also possible to change the exist data. For example, i want to change the repo url to a internal ones. The user can provide a ansible variables file, which hold the new repo url and overwrite the exist one. This PS is in POC stage. Post this mail to gather any advise and better ideas. [0] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container [1] https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/06/20/ansible-native-container-workflow-project/ [2] https://review.openstack.org/334208 -- Regards, Jeffrey Zhang Blog: http://xcodest.me
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