Run Command Inside of Docker Container Using Ansible

Question

what I'm trying to accomplish is to run commands inside of a Docker container that has already been created on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu/Docker Droplet using Ansible.

Can't seem to find anything on this, or I'm majorly missing something. This is my Ansible task in my play book. I'm very new to Ansible so any advice or wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

- name: Test Deploy     hosts: [my-cluster-of-servers]  tasks:    - name: Go Into Docker Container And Run Multiple Commands     docker:       name: [container-name]       image: [image-ive-created-container-with-on-server]       state: present       command: docker exec -it [container-name] bash 

Answer 1

After discussion with some very helpful developers on the ansible github project, a better way to do this is like so:

- name: add container to inventory   add_host:     name: [container-name]     ansible_connection: docker   changed_when: false  - name: run command in container   delegate_to: [container-name]   raw: bash 

If you have python installed in your image, you can use the command module or any other module instead of raw.

If you want to do this on a remote docker host, add:

ansible_docker_extra_args: "-H=tcp://[docker-host]:[api port]" 

to the add_host block.

See the Ansible documentation for a more complete example.