Deploy a Website With Ansible and Docker

In this video, the fifth of the Ansible mini-series, I show how to copy files to a remote host and deploy a web container with Docker, all using Ansible.

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00:00 - Introduction to Video
00:40 - Playbook Overview - Copy
09:43 - Running the Copy Playbook
12:27 - Running the Delete Playbook
15:07 - Outro

[nahum]

Hey Jim, Thanks for this great video, Looking forward for more Ansible videos combining Kubernetes tasks in the near future👌👌
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[rayjames]

I could not get this working, but found the answer on the Discord channel.
I had to use version instead of
Still not sure of all the reasons, but I think because on my Linux Mint server I have a manually installed version of Docker and Docker-compose.
I am not using docker-compose installed with pip3.
Thanks to the help I got on Discord, it is now working.

[SB-qmwg]

Great explaining of the steps. Thank you.

[javisartdesign]

thanks and great video. Just to improve your Ansible script, you should consider using variables, for example for the folder owner and group it might be better to use {{ ansible_user }} instead hardcoding the user

[michaelschalck]

Thanks for a great video Jim :) Was struggling a bit until it cam to my mind "maybe i should have traefik installed on my docker host first, before the nginx container would spin up" After that everything worked like a charm. Looking forward to start the kubernetes cluster part. :)

[shootinputin]

Hi, Jim, I might have missed it, but have you done a tutorial on pulling down compose, playbook (and other) files from a public/private github repository using ansible-pull? Say, for example, where you did the builtin.copy for the nxginx compose to the remote, it would be cool if we could grab it from our github repos instead

[roelofmol]

Nice video 👌 been trying to make my home lab as code and this helped a lot.

[ESEFUSAR]

Thanks for your hard work on this stuff mate! I would have been really nice to also have Ansible manage that DNS record for that demo website too!

[jdratlif]

How long have you been using ansible? Is this something you use in your day job?

[ducki]

little nitpicking: 4:15: you forgot to explain the "enabled" ;)

[aliencord]

all lower case... super low key copying