Managing Containers Using Ansible
Since the introduction of containerization, organizations have been able to deploy applications faster and accelerate release cycles with frequent updates and deployments. However, containerizing applications involve more steps compared to traditional server-based deployments. For example, you need to ensure the packaged container image is working as per expectation, security standards are in place, volume mounting is working, secrets are safe inside, and more. When you have more frequent application releases, automating such container build and deployment tasks will help you implement better CI/CD workflows and save time on manual processes.
With the Ansible collections for container management, we can manage the entire life cycle of our containers. This includes building them, pushing them to the registry, scanning them for vulnerabilities, and deploying them.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Managing the container...
