containers.podman.podman_containers module – Manage podman containers in a batch

Note

This module is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.15.4).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install containers.podman. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.podman_containers.

New in containers.podman 1.4.0

Synopsis

  • Manage groups of podman containers

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • podman

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

containers

list / elements=dictionary / required

List of dictionaries with data for running containers for podman_container module.

debug

boolean

Return additional information which can be helpful for investigations.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Examples

- name: Run three containers at once
  podman_containers:
    containers:
      - name: alpine
        image: alpine
        command: sleep 1d
      - name: web
        image: nginx
      - name: test
        image: python:3.10-alpine
        command: python -V

Authors

  • Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)