community.docker.current_container_facts – Return facts about whether the module runs in a Docker container

Note

This plugin is part of the community.docker collection (version 1.10.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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 community.docker.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.docker.current_container_facts.

New in version 1.1.0: of community.docker

Synopsis

  • Return facts about whether the module runs in a Docker container.

Examples

- name: Get facts on current container
  community.docker.current_container_facts:

- name: Print information on current container when running in a container
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Container ID is {{ ansible_module_container_id }}"
  when: ansible_module_running_in_container

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact Returned Description
ansible_module_container_id
string / elements=string
always
The detected container ID.
Contains an empty string if no container was detected.

ansible_module_container_type
string / elements=string
always
The detected container environment.
Contains an empty string if no container was detected.
Otherwise, will be one of docker or azure_pipelines.

ansible_module_running_in_container
boolean / elements=string
always
Whether the module was able to detect that it runs in a container or not.



Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/docker/current_container_facts_module.html