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A widely-used Ansible role that installs and configures Docker (and optionally Docker Compose) on Linux servers. It supports multiple distributions, version pinning, service management, and cleanup of obsolete packages.

Use cases

• install docker on ubuntu with ansible
• provision docker on centos servers
• pin a specific docker version via ansible
• install docker compose plugin on linux hosts
• remove old docker packages before installing
• manage docker service state with ansible

When to choose

• you use Ansible and need repeatable Docker installation across Linux servers
• you need version pinning or edition selection (CE/EE)
• you want automatic cleanup of conflicting container packages

When to avoid

• you don't use Ansible for configuration management
• you need to install Docker on Windows or macOS hosts
• you want a full container orchestration solution rather than Docker installation

Facets

infra-config · maturity stable

infrastructure-as-code container-runtime configuration-management deployment infrastructure-as-code self-hosted cloud ansible-role docker-installation docker-compose provisioning geerlingguy devops containers automation linux docker

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