community.docker.current_container_facts – Return facts about whether the module runs in a Docker container

Note

This plugin is part of the community.docker collection (version 1.2.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.docker.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.docker.current_container_facts.

New in version 1.1.0: of community.docker

Synopsis

• Return facts about whether the module runs in a Docker container.

Examples

- name: Get facts on current container
  community.docker.current_container_facts:

- name: Print information on current container when running in a container
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Container ID is {{ ansible_module_container_id }}"
  when: ansible_module_running_in_container

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact	Returned	Description
ansible_module_container_id string / elements=string	always	The detected container ID. Contains an empty string if no container was detected.
ansible_module_container_type string / elements=string	always	The detected container environment. Contains an empty string if no container was detected. Otherwise, will be one of docker or azure_pipelines.
ansible_module_running_in_container boolean / elements=string	always	Whether the module was able to detect that it runs in a container or not.

Authors

• Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)