Upgrading Ansible Docker Containers to Python 3

Upgrading Ansible Docker Containers to Python 3

Tuesday, Jan 21, 2020
I have discussed this slightly before, however, some background may be necessary. I build a relatively well used Docker container with Ansible. Originally this was all based on Python 2 which was the default Python that is installed with most operating systems. However, this was soon to change! Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020 The longer message that read out when installing using Python 2 was: ...

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Replacing Python 2 with Python 3 in willhallonline/ansible container

Replacing Python 2 with Python 3 in willhallonline/ansible container

Wednesday, Nov 6, 2019
As you may already know I run a relatively successful (in pull terms) Docker container for Ansible; willhallonline/ansible. It has had around 2 million pulls at the moment, and I use it not only for Ansible in my local machine, but also for loading Ansible into various CI systems and testing the deployment of Ansible roles and playbooks. However, I was prompted to think of the future of it by this GitHub issue opened python 2. ...

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