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Automating Container Management with Ansible
In this lab, you will gain hands-on experience using Ansible to automate container infrastructure and application deployment. You will provision a Linux host with a container runtime, prepare persistent storage directories, and validate runtime readiness. Then, you will deploy a containerized web server with port mapping and volume mounts, verifying application availability using Ansible’s uri module. Finally, you will manage the container lifecycle by applying configuration updates, observing idempotent execution, and performing a clean teardown of containers, images, and temporary data—mirroring real-world DevOps automation workflows.
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Challenge
Provision the Container Host and Administrative Dependencies
- Install the Docker Engine on a managed Ubuntu Linux host using an Ansible playbook.
- Ensure the Docker service is enabled and running.
- Create host directories for persistent container volume mounts.
- Verify container runtime availability using Ansible command-line tools and service validation tasks.
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Challenge
Deploy and Validate a Containerized Web Server Applications
- Use Ansible container modules to pull a web server image (such as httpd) from a container registry.
- Deploy a running container that maps port 80 from the container to the host and mounts a host directory as a persistent volume for web content.
- Validate application availability using the Ansible uri module and confirm the expected HTTP status code.
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Perform Lifecycle Orchestration and Environmental Cleanup
- Apply a configuration change to the running container and observe Ansible idempotent behavior during container recreation.
- Execute a teardown playbook to remove running containers, downloaded container images, and persistent volume data created during the lab.
- Review the playbook execution summary to confirm all tasks completed successfully without errors.
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