Ansible Container is a set of tools that builds upon concepts introduced earlier in this chapter in order to provide a comprehensive workflow for container development, testing, and deployment. Since the last release of this book, a stable release has become available.
At the time of writing, Ansible Container does not get installed with Ansible, and it must be installed separately. It can be installed from pypi as the package name ansible-container, or it can be installed from the source repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container.git). At the time of writing this book, ansible-container has some quite exacting requirements for the Python environment; specifically, docker-py must be removed, and only version 2.7.0 of the docker Python module can be installed. Also note there is (at the time of writing) a known issue in the interaction between the...
