Ansible Tower in a container.

You must start a postgres container before starting the Tower container.

Tower installation demands "systemd", wich is a no-no on containers. I had to remove "fakesystemd" and rely on tricks stolen from other images to install systemd in a safe way. Shamefully I forgot the sources (will fix it as soon as I can).

I also had to change several playbooks from the installation, because "service" tasks are also broken on containers. The "roles" folder contains the modified playbook files.

This image can't be built on a single "docker build" run because it depends on a link to another container (the database). So there are a few manual steps to produce the final version.

Building this image is a three-step task:

• Start the database container (this creates a data volume and a known db admin user):

  ./runsql.sh

• Build the tower container (resulting mage is still useless):

  ./build.sh

• Change whatever you want tower_setup_conf.yml and inventory files

• Run the tower container on "setup mode" (this will populate the database and creates a "towerinstall" temporary container and will populate the volume at '/opt/data/tower'):

  ./runinstall.sh

• Commit the "towerinstall" container into the final image:

  docker commit towerinstall andrefernandes/docker-ansible-tower

• Please observe the mount points that must be managed:

  • /opt/data/tower : this is mounted as "/etc/tower" by both runinstall.sh (that populates it) and runtower.sh (uses it).