Hello all,
I am evaluating docker as a testing platform for our various ansible playbooks, and came across some strange behavior. I was wondering what I was doing wrong, or at least what I was misunderstanding about docker.
I had three containers in a docker-compose file - each of them in the same network. I set them all up with sshd and keys and had one of the machines be the ansible c&c machine. I had the c&c machine depend on the first two so that when it came up, I could have it initiate the ansible.playbook. That worked fine for what it was, but I couldn’t make the build idempotent.
For example, after I ran docker-compose up --build, and the playbook ran (successfully or unsuccessfully didn’t make a difference), I would CTRL-C the containers, fix the playbook, and run docker-compose up --build again. This particular playbook was updating the kernel and I was using docker to test the playbook while I was developing it. However, what I found out was that after the first run where it did successfully update the kernel, all subsequent runs already had the updated kernel installed.
Intuitively I would assume that each new docker-compose up --build would recreate the images as I specified them in their respective dockerfiles, however it appears that they inherited(?) the image where the kernel had already been updated. Am I off in my assumptions?