containers.podman.podman_volume – Manage Podman volumes

Note

This plugin is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.5.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install containers.podman.

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

New in version 1.1.0: of containers.podman

Synopsis

• Manage Podman volumes

Requirements

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

• podman

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
debug boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Return additional information which can be helpful for investigations.
driver string		Specify volume driver name (default local).
executable string	Default: "podman"	Path to podman executable if it is not in the $PATH on the machine running podman
label dictionary		Add metadata to a pod volume (e.g., label com.example.key=value).
name string / required		Name of volume.
options list / elements=string		Set driver specific options. For example 'device=tpmfs', 'type=tmpfs'.
recreate boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Recreate volume even if exists.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	State of volume, default 'present'

Examples

# What modules does for example
- podman_volume:
    state: present
    name: volume1
    label:
      key: value
      key2: value2
    options:
      - "device=/dev/loop1"
      - "type=ext4"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
volume dictionary	always	Volume inspection results if exists. Sample: {'CreatedAt': '2020-06-05T16:38:55.277628769+03:00', 'Driver': 'local', 'Labels': {'key.com': 'value', 'key.org': 'value2'}, 'Mountpoint': '/home/user/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/test/_data', 'Name': 'test', 'Options': {}, 'Scope': 'local'}

Authors

• Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)