Noice- looking forward to playing around with this a little more after 2.3 is out the door (and Windows containers in general- haven't touched them since 2016 RTM'd).
I think we can probably do something a little more integrated on the connection-side- Windows jump-host support in the WinRM connection plugin is something that's getting asked for a little more frequently, and this is basically the same use-case (except that it's an on-machine jump instead of networked). I've prototyped a couple different things over the years- maybe I ought to roadmap it for 2.4 and just get it done. Thanks! -Matt On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 10:59:32 AM UTC-8, Trond Hindenes wrote: > > Hi, > I've hacked a bit on Windows Container support for Ansible during the > weekend, and have pushed a working copy here: > https://github.com/trondhindenes/ansible/tree/win_containers > > Essentially the win_containers thingy is implemented as separate > connection and shell types, and get invoked by using a hosts file entry > like this: > > awscontainer ansible_host=10.245.8.26 ansible_connection=winrm_containers > containerid=<full container id of a running container> > > This works quite simply by "regular" remoting to the host, and then using > the "invoke-command -ContainerId <containerid>" from there to execute the > command. > > I've only tested this on Windows 2016 running a container based on the > "microsoft/windowsservercore" image. > > I think Ansible could be a powerful thing to use with Windows containers, > for the same reasons as the "ansible containers" project - it allows for > much more advanced configuration/building of an image than what a > Dockerfile does, and especially given Windows' reliance on api's instead of > text files for management, I'd say this is even more true on Windows than > on Linux. > > My code is very rough since I don't fully understand the internals of > Ansible, it was just meant as an excercise. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
