Documentation

docker_login - Log into a Docker registry.

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

  • Provides functionality similar to the “docker login” command.
  • Authenticate with a docker registry and add the credentials to your local Docker config file. Adding the credentials to the config files allows future connections to the registry using tools such as Ansible’s Docker modules, the Docker CLI and docker-py without needing to provide credentials.
  • Running in check mode will perform the authentication without updating the config file.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 2.6
  • docker-py >= 1.7.0
  • Docker API >= 1.20
  • Only to be able to logout (state=absent): the docker command line utility

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
api_version
Default:
default provided by docker-py
The version of the Docker API running on the Docker Host. Defaults to the latest version of the API supported by docker-py.

aliases: docker_api_version
cacert_path
Use a CA certificate when performing server verification by providing the path to a CA certificate file.

aliases: tls_ca_cert
cert_path
Path to the client's TLS certificate file.

aliases: tls_client_cert
config_path
Default:
~/.docker/config.json
Custom path to the Docker CLI configuration file.

aliases: self.config_path, dockercfg_path
docker_host
Default:
unix://var/run/docker.sock
The URL or Unix socket path used to connect to the Docker API. To connect to a remote host, provide the TCP connection string. For example, 'tcp://192.0.2.23:2376'. If TLS is used to encrypt the connection, the module will automatically replace 'tcp' in the connection URL with 'https'.

aliases: docker_url
email
The email address for the registry account. NOTE: private registries may not require this, but Docker Hub requires it.
key_path
Path to the client's TLS key file.

aliases: tls_client_key
password
required
The plaintext password for the registry account
reauthorize
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Refresh exiting authentication found in the configuration file.

aliases: reauth
registry_url
Default:
https://index.docker.io/v1/
The registry URL.

aliases: registry, url
ssl_version
Default:
1.0
Provide a valid SSL version number. Default value determined by docker-py, currently 1.0.
state
(added in 2.3)
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
This controls the current state of the user. present will login in a user, absent will log them out.
To logout you only need the registry server, which defaults to DockerHub.
Before 2.1 you could ONLY log in.
docker does not support 'logout' with a custom config file.
timeout
Default:
60
The maximum amount of time in seconds to wait on a response from the API.
tls
Secure the connection to the API by using TLS without verifying the authenticity of the Docker host server.
tls_hostname
Default:
localhost
When verifying the authenticity of the Docker Host server, provide the expected name of the server.
tls_verify
Secure the connection to the API by using TLS and verifying the authenticity of the Docker host server.
username
required
The username for the registry account

Notes

Note

  • Connect to the Docker daemon by providing parameters with each task or by defining environment variables. You can define DOCKER_HOST, DOCKER_TLS_HOSTNAME, DOCKER_API_VERSION, DOCKER_CERT_PATH, DOCKER_SSL_VERSION, DOCKER_TLS, DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY and DOCKER_TIMEOUT. If you are using docker machine, run the script shipped with the product that sets up the environment. It will set these variables for you. See https://docker-py.readthedocs.org/en/stable/machine/ for more details.

Examples

- name: Log into DockerHub
  docker_login:
    username: docker
    password: rekcod
    email: docker@docker.io

- name: Log into private registry and force re-authorization
  docker_login:
    registry: your.private.registry.io
    username: yourself
    password: secrets3
    reauthorize: yes

- name: Log into DockerHub using a custom config file
  docker_login:
    username: docker
    password: rekcod
    email: docker@docker.io
    config_path: /tmp/.mydockercfg

- name: Log out of DockerHub
  docker_login:
    state: absent
    email: docker@docker.com

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key
Returned
Description
login_results
dict
when state='present'
Results from the login.

Sample:
{'username': 'testuser', 'email': 'testuer@yahoo.com', 'serveraddress': 'localhost:5000'}


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

Hint

If you notice any issues in this documentation you can edit this document to improve it.