containers.podman.buildah connection – Interact with an existing buildah container

Note

This connection plugin is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.15.2).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install containers.podman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.buildah.

Synopsis

  • Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing container using buildah tool.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

remote_addr

string

The ID of the container you want to access.

Default: "inventory_hostname"

Configuration:

  • Variable: ansible_host

  • Variable: inventory_hostname

remote_user

string

User specified via name or ID which is used to execute commands inside the container.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
remote_user = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER

  • Variable: ansible_user

Authors

  • Tomas Tomecek (@TomasTomecek)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.