Build Ansible image with docker compose + Dockerfile

README.md

This setup allows you to build an ansible image based on ubuntu.

It will setup automatically skipping the interactive mode which requires setup of timezone during ansible installation

Feel free to substitute the ENV TZ with your current timezone

Ansible docs

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  ansible-control:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    container_name: ansible-control
    volumes:
      - ./:/ansible
    command: tail -f /dev/null

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:23.10

WORKDIR /ansible

ENV TZ=Africa/Nairobi

RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone \
  && apt update -y \
  && apt install -y tzdata software-properties-common \
  && add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible \
  && apt install -y software-properties-common \
  && add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible \
  && apt install -y ansible