Interaction between Docker, AMI and Ansible

• kaniko

  49 13,882 9.5 Go

  Build Container Images In Kubernetes

  

Docker is a tool for building container images and running containers. Normally you'd compose a `Dockerfile` to configure an container image, include that `Dockerfile` at the root of an application repository, then use a CI/CD system to build and deploy that image on to a fleet of servers (possibly, but not necessarily, using Ansible!). You can use Ansible to build Docker images, but the idiomatic way - e.g. the least surprising, most common way - would be to use a `Dockerfile` and `docker` itself (or another builder such as [`Buildah`](https://buildah.io/) or [`kaniko`](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko)).

• Packer

  65 14,872 9.4 Go

  Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

  

An AMI (Amazon Machine Image) contains the OS used by an EC2 instance. Normally you'd use a tool such as [Packer](https://www.packer.io/) to build the image. Ansible can be used as a [provisioner](https://www.packer.io/plugins/provisioners/ansible/ansible) for Packer. I usually just use bash scripts.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ansible-bender

  9 664 4.0 Python

  ansible-playbook + buildah = a sweet container image

  

(For container images, you'd probably be interested in https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-bender )

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