containers.podman.buildah_containers inventory – Inventory plugin that discovers Buildah working containers as hosts

Note

This inventory plugin is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.20.1).

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.buildah_containers.

New in containers.podman 1.18.0

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Discover Buildah working containers on the local host and add them as inventory hosts.
Each discovered host is assigned the Buildah connection plugin so tasks execute inside the working container.

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
connection_plugin string	Fully-qualified connection plugin to use for discovered hosts. Default: `"containers.podman.buildah"`
executable string	Path to the `buildah` executable. Default: `"buildah"` Configuration: Environment variable: `ANSIBLE_BUILDAH_EXECUTABLE`
name_patterns list / elements=string	Glob patterns to match working container names or IDs; empty means include all. Default: `[]`
plugin string / required	Token that ensures this is a source file for the ‘containers.podman.buildah_containers’ inventory plugin. Choices: `"containers.podman.buildah_containers"`

Examples

plugin: containers.podman.buildah_containers
connection_plugin: containers.podman.buildah
name_patterns:
  - my-build-*

Authors

Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)

Collection links

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2025 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/containers/podman/buildah_containers_inventory.html