Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Launching and stopping Docker containers

Launching Docker containers using Ansible can be achieved via the Ansible Docker task. In the following example, we launch a Docker container for mysql. Let's take a look:

# The following task launches a mysql docker container- name: MySQL Database Container Launch   docker:   name: database   image: mysql:1.0   state: started

From the preceding example, we can see the task launches a MySQL Docker container (version 1.0). The primary parameters we used in this task are image and name. These parameters define the image and tag for the task to use and what we want to title the container we are managing.

The key to launching the container is the started state. State in this context provides the following switches: ...