Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to install and configure Docker on a Linux machine using Ansible. Then, you learned how to pull an image from the container registry, and then start that container and stop it using Ansible modules. Finally, you learned how to use Ansible to build container images with a Dockerfile, as well as how to build application content and push a container image to the container registry. You also tested the newly built container images by running a container with Ansible modules. Knowing how to manage containers and container images using Ansible will help you implement better and more efficient CI/CD workflows and pipelines. Instead of struggling with the limited features in the CI/CD tools, utilize the flexibility of Ansible to add more validations, tests, and integrations to the container build process.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to manage containerized applications in Kubernetes and manage other Kubernetes resources and applications...