It’s boring to install Docker and Docker Compose on any host I need. Maybe Kubernetes is the right weight to di such things but Docker fits all my needs at the moment, so I use it for some development scenarios.
I’ve got a simple docker_bootstrap.sh script to install Ansible if it’s not
installed yet and setup Docker on the same host:
#!/bin/bash
pip install ansible
ansible-galaxy install nickjj.docker
ansible-playbook ./site.yml -t docker
I use Ansible from pip because it’s not supposed to be installed on a production environment. If you want to install Ansible using operating system packages, for Debian-based distros you can do something like:
apt-get update
apt-get install --yes software-properties-common
apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
apt-get install --yes ansible
And here is a really simple site.yml:
---
# site.yml
- name: Install Docker
hosts: "localhost"
become: true
roles:
- role: "nickjj.docker"
tags: ["docker"]
It’s one of the simples solutions and it works for me. I try to not over-engineering my development environment and keep it as simple, as possible to do fewer efforts during support it.