How to Setup Apache Web Server in a Podman Container for RedHat-like systems with Ansible?

I'm going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot.

Setup Apache Web Server in a Podman Container for RedHat-like systems

  • install packages => ansible.builtin.yum
  • pull image => containers.podman.podman_image
  • run container => containers.podman.podman_container

Today we're talking about how to Deploy a web server apache httpd in a Podman Container for RedHat-like Linux systems.

The full process requires three steps that you could automate with different Ansible modules.

Firstly you need to verify that podman and its dependency is successfully installed on the target system using the ansible.builtin.yum Ansible module.

Secondly, you need to pull the image for the container hub registry using the containers.podman.podman_image Ansible module.

Finally, you could run the webserver container setting the right port and settings using the containers.podman.podman_image Ansible module.

Links

  • [containers.podman.podman_image](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/containers/podman/podman_image_module.html)
  • [containers.podman.podman_container](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/containers/podman/podman_container_module.html)
  • [httpd image](https://hub.docker.com/_/httpd)

## Playbook

How to Setup Apache Web Server in a Podman Container for RedHat-like systems with Ansible Playbook.

code

``yaml

---

  • name: deploy httpd on container

hosts: all

become: true

gather_facts: false

tasks:

- name: podman installed

ansible.builtin.yum:

name: podman

state: latest

- name: pull image

containers.podman.podman_image:

name: httpd

pull: true

tag: latest

- name: run httpd container

containers.podman.podman_container:

name: webserver

image: httpd

state: started

detach: true

expose:

- 80

ports:

- 8080:80

`

execution

`bash

ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory container/podman_httpd_redhat.yml

PLAY [deploy httpd on container]

TASK [podman installed] *

changed: [demo.example.com]

TASK [pull image] *

changed: [demo.example.com]

TASK [run httpd container] **

changed: [demo.example.com]

PLAY RECAP **

demo.example.com : ok=3 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

ansible-pilot $

`

idempotency

``bash

ansible-pilot $ ansib