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community.docker.docker_api connection – Run tasks in docker containers

Note

This connection plugin is part of the community.docker collection (version 3.4.11).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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 community.docker. You need further requirements to be able to use this connection plugin, see Requirements for details.

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

New in community.docker 1.1.0

Synopsis

• Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing docker container.

• Uses the requests library to interact directly with the Docker daemon instead of using the Docker CLI. Use the community.docker.docker connection plugin if you want to use the Docker CLI.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this connection.

• requests

• pywin32 (when using named pipes on Windows 32)

• paramiko (when using SSH with use_ssh_client=false)

• pyOpenSSL (when using TLS)

• backports.ssl_match_hostname (when using TLS on Python 2)

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_version aliases: docker_api_version string	The version of the Docker API running on the Docker Host. Defaults to the latest version of the API supported by this collection and the docker daemon. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_API_VERSION will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Default: "auto" Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_api_version
ca_cert aliases: tls_ca_cert, cacert_path path	Use a CA certificate when performing server verification by providing the path to a CA certificate file. If the value is not specified in the task and the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH is set, the file ca.pem from the directory specified in the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH will be used. Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_ca_cert
client_cert aliases: tls_client_cert, cert_path path	Path to the client’s TLS certificate file. If the value is not specified in the task and the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH is set, the file cert.pem from the directory specified in the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH will be used. Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_client_cert
client_key aliases: tls_client_key, key_path path	Path to the client’s TLS key file. If the value is not specified in the task and the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH is set, the file key.pem from the directory specified in the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH will be used. Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_client_key
container_timeout integer	Controls how long we can wait to access reading output from the container once execution started. Default: 10 Configuration: INI entries: [defaults] timeout = 10 [docker_connection] timeout = 10 added in community.docker 2.2.0 Environment variable: ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT Environment variable: ANSIBLE_DOCKER_TIMEOUT added in community.docker 2.2.0 Variable: ansible_docker_timeout added in community.docker 2.2.0 CLI argument: –timeout
debug boolean	Debug mode Choices: false ← (default) true
docker_host aliases: docker_url string	The URL or Unix socket path used to connect to the Docker API. To connect to a remote host, provide the TCP connection string. For example, tcp://192.0.2.23:2376. If TLS is used to encrypt the connection, the module will automatically replace tcp in the connection URL with https. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_HOST will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Default: "unix://var/run/docker.sock" Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_docker_host
remote_addr string	The name of the container you want to access. Default: "inventory_hostname" Configuration: Variable: inventory_hostname Variable: ansible_host Variable: ansible_docker_host
remote_user string	The user to execute as inside the container. Configuration: INI entry: [defaults] remote_user = VALUE Environment variable: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER Variable: ansible_user Variable: ansible_docker_user Keyword: remote_user CLI argument: –user
ssl_version string	Provide a valid SSL version number. Default value determined by SSL Python module. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_SSL_VERSION will be used instead. Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_ssl_version
timeout integer	The maximum amount of time in seconds to wait on a response from the API. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TIMEOUT will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Default: 60 Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_timeout
tls boolean	Secure the connection to the API by using TLS without verifying the authenticity of the Docker host server. Note that if validate_certs is set to true as well, it will take precedence. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TLS will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Choices: false ← (default) true Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_tls
tls_hostname string	When verifying the authenticity of the Docker Host server, provide the expected name of the server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TLS_HOSTNAME will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Note that this option had a default value localhost in older versions. It was removed in community.docker 3.0.0. Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_tls_hostname
use_ssh_client boolean added in community.docker 1.5.0	For SSH transports, use the ssh CLI tool instead of paramiko. Choices: false ← (default) true
validate_certs aliases: tls_verify boolean	Secure the connection to the API by using TLS and verifying the authenticity of the Docker host server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Choices: false ← (default) true Configuration: Variable: ansible_docker_validate_certs

Notes

Note

• Does not work with TCP TLS sockets! This is caused by the inability to send close_notify without closing the connection with Python’s SSLSockets. See https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/605 for more information.

• Connect to the Docker daemon by providing parameters with each task or by defining environment variables. You can define DOCKER_HOST, DOCKER_TLS_HOSTNAME, DOCKER_API_VERSION, DOCKER_CERT_PATH, DOCKER_SSL_VERSION, DOCKER_TLS, DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY and DOCKER_TIMEOUT. If you are using docker machine, run the script shipped with the product that sets up the environment. It will set these variables for you. See https://docs.docker.com/machine/reference/env/ for more details.

• This module does not use the Docker SDK for Python to communicate with the Docker daemon. It uses code derived from the Docker SDK or Python that is included in this collection.

Authors

• Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.

Collection links

• Issue Tracker
• Repository (Sources)
• Submit a bug report
• Request a feature
• Communication