community.general.chroot – Interact with local chroot

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.chroot.

Synopsis

  • Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing chroot on the Ansible controller.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
chroot_exe
string
Default:
"chroot"
ini entries:

[chroot_connection]
exe = chroot

env:ANSIBLE_CHROOT_EXE
var: ansible_chroot_exe
User specified chroot binary
executable
string
Default:
"/bin/sh"
ini entries:

[defaults]
executable = /bin/sh

env:ANSIBLE_EXECUTABLE
var: ansible_executable
User specified executable shell
remote_addr
string
Default:
"inventory_hostname"
var: ansible_host
The path of the chroot you want to access.

Authors

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/chroot_connection.html