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Practical Ansible 2

You're reading from   Practical Ansible 2 Automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications with Ansible 2.9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807462
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Oh Se Young Oh Se Young
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Defining Your Inventory 5. Playbooks and Roles 6. Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Consuming and Creating Modules 8. Consuming and Creating Plugins 9. Coding Best Practices 10. Advanced Ansible Topics 11. Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
12. Network Automation with Ansible 13. Container and Cloud Management 14. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 15. Getting Started with Ansible Tower 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automating Docker with Ansible

Docker is now a very common and ubiquitous tool. In production, it is often managed by an orchestrator (or at least it should be, in the majority of cases), but in development, environments are often used directly.

With Ansible, you can easily manage your Docker instance.

Since we are going to manage a Docker instance, we need to make sure we have one at hand and that the docker command on our machine is configured properly. We need to do this to ensure this is enough to run docker images on the Terminal. Let's say you get a result similar to the following:

REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE

This means that everything is working properly. More lines may be provided as output if you have already-cloned images.

On the other hand, let's say it returns something like this:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock...
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