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Automate Container Management with Ansible

In this lab, you'll practice deploying and managing Docker containers and environments with Ansible. When you're finished with this lab, you'll have deployed an API endpoint and related services through the creation of multiple Ansible playbooks.

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(36)
Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
1h 20m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Create a Docker Image Registry

    Begin by using Ansible and the docker_compose module to spin up a Docker registry on the Docker host. Create a user and password for the registry.

  3. Challenge

    Create and Populate a MySQL Container

    You'll deploy a MySQL container separate from the greater API setup. You will need to map the container volume to a location on the Docker host, map the MySQL container port to the greater host, create and add the container to a Docker network, and supply the provided MySQL dump to the container entrypoint.

  4. Challenge

    Build the App Image

    Create another Ansible playbook to build an image based on the provided PHP application. This playbook should copy over any needed content to the Docker host, include any environmental variables needed for the application to run, and be pushed to the registry created to the second challenge.

  5. Challenge

    Deploy the Containerized API

    You'll use the image created in the last challenge and the docker_compose Ansible module to run the PHP application, and generate content for the NGINX endpoint.

  6. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment.

About the author

With a background at a cloud hosting company, I started learning Linux and DevOps from the bottom up as a technical writer set out to document configuration management systems. Falling in love with Linux, DevOps and tech as a whole, I eventually took my ability to explain technical concepts to wide audiences to the training area, creating courses on Red Hat, SaltStack, HashiCorp, LXD, Docker, and more.

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