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podman – Interact with an existing podman container¶

New in version 2.8.

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Synopsis ¶

Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing container using podman tool.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
remote_addr -	Default: "inventory_hostname"	var: ansible_host	The ID of the container you want to access.
remote_user -		ini entries: [defaults] remote_user = VALUE env:ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER var: ansible_user	User specified via name or UID which is used to execute commands inside the container. If you specify the user via UID, you must set `ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TMP` to a path that exits inside the container and is writable by Ansible.

Status ¶

This connection is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This connection is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors¶

Tomas Tomecek (ttomecek@redhat.com)

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