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Understanding requirements for managing Docker

Understanding requirements for managing Docker - Ansible Tutorial

From the course: Ansible: From Basics to Guru by Pearson

Understanding requirements for managing Docker

In this video, you will learn about the requirements for managing docker containers with Ansible. So what are these requirements? Well, in order to use docker containers, dockerd, that's a daemon, must be installed and started. Next, different specific modules can be used to manage docker containers. And you can use Ansible doc minus L, grab Docker for an overview. You should also notice that you do not use Docker modules for managing Popman containers on Red Hat. I will show you in lesson 15.3 how to manage Popman containers in Red Hat. But you should know that Red Hat with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has gone their own direction. And in that direction, there is just no place anymore for for Docker. Botman is the default and you shouldn't try to use REL8 and similar distributions with Docker. That's not supported. It will break all the time. It's not working well. So just don't do it. Now what is the high level overview of our tasks to be done? First you need to add a…

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