After creating my Jenkins container I thought it would be fun to run Ansible Tower in a container so I created a simple Dockerfile. First you need find out the latest Ansible Tower version: https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup/ and update the version variable in the Dockerfile.
Here is my Dockerfile:
... ARG ANSIBLE_TOWER_VER=3.3.1-1 ...
The passwords can be changed in the inventory file:
... [all:vars] admin_password='<-your-password->' ... pg_password='<-your-password->' ... rabbitmq_password='<-your-password->' ...
Let’s start by building the container:
git clone https://github.com/berndonline/ansible-tower-docker.git && cd ansible-tower-docker/ docker build -t berndonline/ansible-tower .
The docker build will take a few minutes, just wait and look out for errors you might have in the build:
berndonline@lab:~$ git clone https://github.com/berndonline/ansible-tower-docker.git
Cloning into 'ansible-tower-docker'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 17, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (17/17), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 17 (delta 4), reused 14 (delta 4), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (17/17), done.
berndonline@lab:~$ cd ansible-tower-docker/
berndonline@lab:~/ansible-tower-docker$ docker build -t berndonline/ansible-tower .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 87.04kB
Step 1/31 : FROM ubuntu:16.04
16.04: Pulling from library/ubuntu
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Digest: sha256:e547ecaba7d078800c358082088e6cc710c3affd1b975601792ec701c80cdd39
Status: Downloaded newer image for ubuntu:16.04
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Step 2/31 : USER root
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Step 3/31 : WORKDIR /opt
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Step 4/31 : ARG ANSIBLE_TOWER_VER=3.3.1-1
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Step 5/31 : ARG PG_DATA=/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main
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...
PLAY [Install Tower isolated node(s)] ******************************************
skipping: no hosts matched
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=125 changed=64 unreachable=0 failed=0
The setup process completed successfully.
Setup log saved to /var/log/tower/setup-2018-11-21-20:21:37.log
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Step 27/31 : ADD entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
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Step 28/31 : RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
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Step 29/31 : VOLUME ["${PG_DATA}", "${AWX_PROJECTS}","/certs"]
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Step 30/31 : EXPOSE 80
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Step 31/31 : ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh", "ansible-tower"]
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Successfully built ce89ea0753d4
Successfully tagged berndonline/ansible-tower:latest
Continue to create a Docker Volume container to store the Postgres database:
sudo docker create -v /var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main --name tower-data berndonline/ansible-tower /bin/true
Start the Ansible Tower Docker container:
sudo docker run -d -p 32456:80 --volumes-from tower-data --name ansible-tower --privileged --restart berndonline/ansible-tower
Afterwards you can connect to http://<your-ip-address>:32456/ and import your Tower license. Ansible provides a free 10 node license which you can request here: https://www.ansible.com/license.
The Ansible Tower playbook installs an Nginx reverse proxy and you can enable SSL by setting the variable nginx_disable_https to false in the inventory file, and publish the container via 443 instead of 80.
Please share your feedback and leave a comment.
