# ansible/ansible-container

DEPRECATED -- Ansible Container was a tool to build Docker images and orchestrate containers using only Ansible playbooks.

Repository: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ansible-container
Language: Python
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-03-22T22:47:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3772, "days_push": 2721, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2163, forks 386 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:21.143386+00:00)

## What it is
A deprecated CLI tool that built Docker images and orchestrated container deployment using Ansible playbooks instead of Dockerfiles. It managed the container lifecycle from build through testing to deployment on cloud providers or Kubernetes.

## Use cases
- build docker images from ansible playbooks
- orchestrate containers with ansible instead of docker compose
- deploy containers to kubernetes using ansible
- manage container lifecycle from development to production
- push built images to a container registry

## When to choose
- you are already maintaining a legacy project that uses ansible-container
- you need to understand or migrate an existing ansible-container workflow

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - it is officially deprecated and unmaintained
- building container images - use ansible-bender instead
- deploying containers to kubernetes - use Ansible Operators instead
- you want active community support or bug fixes

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: container-runtime, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, cli
- domain: cloud-computing
- platform: python, cli
- tags: ansible, docker, deprecated, container-build, orchestration, containers, devops, automation, linux, macos, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- ansible/ansible-container (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:21.143386+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:50:11.649152+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:21.143386+00:00, sha 2d9c97d4785a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ansible-container/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:29:52.075632+00:00, sha 305a0cef8c17)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.