Deploy Apache HTTPD Container with Podman via Ansible — Video Tutorial

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" - name: run httpd container containers.podman.podman_container: name: webserver image: httpd state: started detach: true expose: - 80 ports: - 8080:80 volume: - "{{ webroot }}:/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/:exec" ``` execution ```bash ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory container/podman_httpd_redhat2.yml PLAY [deploy httpd on container] **************************************************