containers.podman.podman_volume – Manage Podman volumes

Note

This plugin is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.8.1).

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 containers.podman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.podman_volume.

New in version 1.1.0: of containers.podman

Synopsis

  • Manage Podman volumes

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • podman

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
debug
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Return additional information which can be helpful for investigations.
driver
string
Specify volume driver name (default local).
executable
string
Default:
"podman"
Path to podman executable if it is not in the $PATH on the machine running podman
label
dictionary
Add metadata to a pod volume (e.g., label com.example.key=value).
name
string / required
Name of volume.
options
list / elements=string
Set driver specific options. For example 'device=tpmfs', 'type=tmpfs'. UID and GID idempotency is not supported due to changes in podman.
recreate
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Recreate volume even if exists.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
State of volume, default 'present'

Examples

# What modules does for example
- podman_volume:
    state: present
    name: volume1
    label:
      key: value
      key2: value2
    options:
      - "device=/dev/loop1"
      - "type=ext4"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
volume
dictionary
always
Volume inspection results if exists.

Sample:
{'CreatedAt': '2020-06-05T16:38:55.277628769+03:00', 'Driver': 'local', 'Labels': {'key.com': 'value', 'key.org': 'value2'}, 'Mountpoint': '/home/user/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/test/_data', 'Name': 'test', 'Options': {}, 'Scope': 'local'}


Authors

  • Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)

© 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/containers/podman/podman_volume_module.html