How to start a docker container with healthstatus using Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I want to launch one docker container using the Ansible playbook. I also want to check the healthstatus of this container. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use the docker_container module in your Ansible playbook. This module has an argument to check the health of a container. You can see the below playbook.

- name: Start container with healthstatus
  docker_container:
    name: nginx-proxy
    image: nginx:1.13
    state: started
    healthcheck:
      # Check if nginx server is healthy by curl'ing the server.
      # If this fails or timeouts, the healthcheck fails.
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://nginx.host.com"]
      interval: 1m30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 30s