Portainer Collection

Why:

• We want to make it easier for developers and engineers to automate the Portainer application

How:

• By creating an Ansible collection with modules for interacting with Portainer's API
• So developers can use a clean and simple pattern to describe how they want their Portainer application to funtion
• Also, getting the advantages of Ansible's features
  • Logging
  • Idempotence
    • Don't do something unless it needs to be done
  • Declarative syntax
    • Tell me what you want the end results to look like and I'll get you there
  • Check Mode
    • Tell me what you would do without actually doing it ("dry run")

Context:

• Ansible is a popular, open-source tool that is used to manage hosts, applications, and 3rd party platforms
  • Basically, a way to automate the infrastructure required to run your code
• Portainer is a popular, open-source tool that is used to manage Docker containers across multiple hosts
  • It provides a web UI where you can view which hosts are in your "system"
  • From this UI, you can manage any of your hosts - starting and stopping containers

Code:

• https://github.com/codekaizen-github/portainer-ansible-collection