Ansible control node for IBM Z in a Linux/390 Docker container for z/OS Container Extensions

[ndegreef]

Proposal: Ansible control node for s390 in z/OS docker container

Author: @ndegreef

Date: 2021-07-23

• Status: New
• Proposal type: Ansible docker for IBM Z
• Targeted release: 2.9
• Associated PR: N/Z
• Estimated time to implement: unknown

Motivation

On IBM Z we see more and more use of Ansible. Therefore we would like to be able to run an Ansible control node on IBM Z on z/OS itself in a Docker container under Z/OS Container Extension.

Problems

What problems exist that this proposal will solve?

• Ansible in a zCX container make z/OS management through Ansible much easier to manage and secure.
• Running Ansible in a z/OS context prevents the need for additional management platforms, simplifying the whole setup.

Solution proposal

• Provide Ansible as a Linux s390 Docker container.

Dependencies (optional)

The usual prereqs for Ansible like Python and ssh but these are all available for Linux s390 already.

Testing (optional)

Documentation (optional)

Anything else?

[agaffney]

Ansible doesn't provide any official Docker images for any architecture, and there's nothing stopping you from building your own custom image containing Ansible.

[bcoca]

closing as per above, the Ansible project does not and is not planning on maintaining 'official' container images.