Ansible Quick Start Guide

Example Ansible container

As an example, we are going to create a simple web server. First, we need to create our Ansible Container folder and the initial configuration files:

mkdir /home/admin/Containers/webserver
cd /home/admin/Containers/webserver
ansible-container init

Then, we start editing the files that we have created. We start with the container.yml file and fill it with the following code:

version: '2'
settings:
  conductor:
    base: 'ubuntu:xenial'
  project_name: webserver

services:
  web:
    from: centos:7
    command: [nginx]
    entrypoint: [/usr/bin/entrypoint.sh]
    ports:
      - 80:80
    roles:
      - nginx-server

Then, we fill in the meta.yml file in case we need to upload our container project to Ansible Galaxy. We need to add the following code to it: