Ansible Role: Containerd

An Ansible Role that installs containerd on Linux.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

containerd_package: containerd.io
containerd_package_state: present

Package name and state controls.

containerd_service_state: started
containerd_service_enabled: true

Service controls. You can install containerd but not have it running or enabled on boot by changing these defaults.

containerd_config_default_write: true

Write containerd defaults to the containerd config.toml file.

containerd_config_cgroup_driver_systemd: false

Set systemd as cgroup driver in config.toml. Only valid with containerd_config_default_write: true

docker_apt_release_channel: stable
docker_apt_arch: '{{ (ansible_architecture == "aarch64") | ternary("arm64", "amd64") }}'
docker_apt_repository: "deb [arch={{ docker_apt_arch }}] https://download.docker.com/linux/{{ ansible_distribution | lower }} {{ ansible_distribution_release }} {{ docker_apt_release_channel }}"
docker_apt_ignore_key_error: true
docker_apt_gpg_key: https://download.docker.com/linux/{{ ansible_distribution | lower }}/gpg

Apt installation paramemeters, useful if you want to switch from the stable channel releases, or install on a different CPU architecture (e.g. arm64).

docker_yum_repo_url: https://download.docker.com/linux/{{ (ansible_distribution == "Fedora") | ternary("fedora","centos") }}/docker-ce.repo
docker_yum_repo_enable_nightly: '0'
docker_yum_gpg_key: https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/gpg

Yum/DNF installation parameters, useful if you want to switch from the stable repository.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.containerd

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2021 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.