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
- custom index.html =>
ansible.builtin.copy
- 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 four steps that you could automate with different Ansible modules.
Firstly you need to verify that podman and it dependency is successfully installed on the target system using the ansible.builtin.yum Ansible module.
Secondly, you need to create the custom index.html with ansible.builtin.copy Ansible module. You could upgrade this step using the template module.
Thirdly, 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_container 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 container
hosts: all
become: true
gather_facts: false
vars:
webroot: "/webroot"
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: webroot present
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ webroot }}"
state: directory
owner: "root"
group: "root"
mode: '0777'
setype: "container_share_t"
- name: custom index.html
ansible.builtin.copy:
dest: "{{ webroot }}/index.html"
content: |
Custom Web Page
setype: "container_share_t"