Integration of Docker and Ansible

Shashank jain
3 min readJan 20, 2021

Deployment Of WebServer On Docker Using Ansible:-

TASK1-

Write an Ansible PlayBook that does the following operations in the managed nodes:-

1- Configure Docker.

2- Start and enable Docker services.

3- Pull the httpd server image from the Docker Hub.

4- Run the httpd container and expose it to the public.

5- Copy the html code in /var/www/html directory and start the web server.

Basic prerequisite :-

Install two VM’s in your system . One as Controller Node and the other as Managed Node. and download ansible in manager node.

Basic Terms :-

Ansible :- It is an open-source automation tool, or platform, used for IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, intraservice orchestration, and provisioning.It’s one of the most useful use case is , suppose we don’t know commands of different types of os so we just need to tell ansible that what we want to do.

Controller Node:- A controller node is a Linux server that has Ansible installed on it and is used for managing remote hosts or nodes.

Managed Node:- The remote systems managed by the controller node are known as Managed Hosts or Managed Node.

Playbook:- It is one of the core features of ansible and tell ansible what to execute. They are like a to-do list for ansible that contains a list of tasks.

Now Follow these steps in the Controller Node:-

1- Check the version of the Ansible installed in the controller node by using ansible — version command.

2- Now, follow the screenshots given below:-

vim /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

This is the main configuration file of ansible.

This is the inventory file of ansible which is present at location->

vim /etc/hosts.txt

Than we have to make file..

  • vim docker_setup.yml

3- Run the Ansible-Playbook by using the command:-

ansible-playbook docker_setup.yml

OUTPUT:-

4- On Browser, type the IP Address:port/filename.

Thanks for reading.

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