An ansible playbook to configure docker,start docker services and launching a webserver on the top of docker.
3 min readJun 17, 2021
Task 10.
Task description-
🔰Write an Ansible PlayBook that does the
following operations in the managed nodes:
🔹 Configure Docker
🔹 Start and enable Docker services
🔹 Pull the httpd server image from the Docker Hub
🔹 Run the docker container and expose it to the public
🔹 Copy the html code in /var/www/html directory
and start the web server
Note- Ansible should be installed on your system, and the nodes where this docker is to be configured should have internet connectivity.
Create the Docker Repository
- To install docker, first we need to configure yum.
Install Docker
- You can install Docker using “command” module or “package” module.
- “Command” module directly runs the given command in hosts.
- “Package” module will automatically
Install Python SDK then Docker SDK
- To handle docker containers from ansible, Docker SDK is needed to be installed in managed nodes.
- To install Docker SDK using pip module, first you need to install Python on hosts.
- Install python using “package” module.
- Then install docker SDK using “pip” module.
Start and Enable Docker
- Start and enable the Docker using “service” module.
Pulling httpd image from Docker Hub
- Pull “httpd” image from docker hub using “docker_image” module.
Launching Docker Container with httpd image and Exposing it
- For launching container, use “docker_container” module
- For “volumes” option, first we need to create the folder in host using “file” module, then mount this folder within the container.
- Use “exposed_ports” option, to expose the container.
- Use “ports” option to publish exposed container port to Docker host (Host_Port:Conatiner_Port)
Copy webpages to /var/www/html directory in Conatiner
- Copy the webpage to the folder that is mount within the conatiner.
Setting Firewall Rule
- Disable the firewall in the hosts so that client can connect to the webserver.
- For disabling firewalld, you can either use “service” module or “firewalld” module.
Ansible playbook:-
Running Ansible Playbook-
Checking the node if it worked or not:-
Using Curl to check the webserver:
Now let check our webserver is working or not.
Finally the task is done.
Thanks for reading 😀
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