create initial structure for ansible-dev and set up the container for Ansible server

ansible/Dockerfile

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+# https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/
+
+# https://hub.docker.com/_/debian
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+
+# Configure apt not to prompt during docker build
+ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Configure apt to avoid installing recommended and suggested packages
+RUN apt-config dump \
+    | grep -E '^APT::Install-(Recommends|Suggests)' \
+    | sed -e's/1/0/' \
+    | tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99no-recommends-no-suggests
+
+# Resynchronize the package index files from their sources
+RUN apt-get update
+
+# Install packages
+RUN apt-get install -y \
+    python3 \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-venv \
+    openssh-client 
+
+# Clean up packages: Saves space by removing unnecessary package files
+# and lists
+RUN apt-get clean
+RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Create a virtual env and install ansible using pip
+RUN python3 -m venv /opt/ansible-venv --system-site-packages && \    
+/opt/ansible-venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir ansible
+
+# Create a directory for Ansible configuration
+RUN mkdir /etc/ansible/
+
+# Copy local configuration files to the image
+COPY ../config/ /etc/ansible/
+
+# Set environment variables for Ansible
+ENV PATH="/ansible-venv/bin:$PATH"
+ENV ANSIBLE_CONFIG=/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
+
+# Set the default command to run Ansible
+CMD ["ansible", "--version"]

config/ansible.cfg

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+[defaults]
+inventory = /etc/ansible/hosts
+remote_user = root
+host_key_checking = False
+retry_files_enabled = False

config/hosts

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+[local]
+localhost ansible_connection=local

docker-compose.yml

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+# https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/
+
+services:
+
+  ansible-dev:
+    container_name: ansible
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: ansible/Dockerfile
+    volumes:
+      - ./config/ansible.cfg:/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
+      - ./config/hosts:/etc/ansible/hosts
+    command: sh -c 'trap "exit" TERM; while true; do sleep 1; done'