Ansible CI/CD Docker Images

The ansible_cicd images are built for Ansible playbook, role, Molecule, linting, and network automation testing in CI/CD pipelines.

Image

Docker Hub: bsmeding/ansible_cicd_ubuntu
Source: docker_containers_ansible_cicd
Build status:

Maintained distro tags

Family	Active tags	Default alias
Ubuntu	`ubuntu2404`, `ubuntu2604`	`ubuntu` -> Ubuntu 26.04
Debian	`debian12`, `debian13`	`debian` -> Debian 13 / Trixie
Rocky Linux	`rockylinux8`, `rockylinux9`	`rockylinux` -> Rocky Linux 9
Alpine	`alpine3.22`, `alpine3.23`	`alpine3` -> Alpine 3.23

Older tags remain available on Docker Hub but are no longer updated.

Included tooling

Ansible, ansible-lint, Molecule, molecule-plugins, pytest, pytest-ansible
Network automation libraries: Netmiko, ncclient, Scrapli, NAPALM, Paramiko, TextFSM, ntc-templates
CMDB and source-of-truth clients: pynautobot, pynetbox
Data and automation libraries: cryptography, yamllint, JMESPath, netaddr, pywinrm, requests, boto3, openstacksdk, kubernetes, Jinja2, passlib
Systemd support for Molecule on Debian, Ubuntu, and Rocky Linux images

pyATS is not available in Alpine and Rocky Linux variants.

Usage

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: bsmeding/ansible_cicd_ubuntu:latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
      - run: ansible-lint
      - run: molecule test

Use a version-specific image such as bsmeding/ansible_cicd_debian12:latest when a pipeline must match a specific OS version.