How to create docker volume using Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to launch one container with docker volume using Ansible playbook. For that I need to create a volume first. How can I do that using same playbook?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

We can create a volume docker resource using the docker_volume module. This module is available in Ansible 2.4 or higher version. You can see the below playbook. It may help you.

vars:
  docker_volume: db_data

- name: "Create a Volume"
  docker_volume:
    name: "{{ docker_volume }}"