Sure. Below is an example playbook that is fairly similar to how I’m deploying most of my containers.

This example creates a folder for samba data, creates a config file from a template and then runs the samba container. It even has a handler so that if I make changes to the config file template it will cycle the container for me after deploying the updated config file.

I usually structure everything as an ansible role which just splits up this sort of playbook into a folder structure instead. ChatGPT did a great job of helping me figure out where to put files and generally just sped up the process of me creating tasks to do common things like setup a cronjob, install a package, or copy files around.

- name: Run samba
  hosts: servername

  vars:
    samba_data_directory: "/home/me/docker/samba"

  tasks:
  - name: Create samba data directory
    ansible.builtin.file:
      path: "{{ samba_data_directory }}"
      state: directory
      mode: '0755'

  - name: Create samba config from a jinja template file
    ansible.builtin.template:
      src: templates/smb.conf.j2
      dest: "{{ samba_data_directory }}/smb.conf"
      mode: '0644'
    notify: Restart samba container

  - name: Run samba container
    community.docker.docker_container:
      name: samba
      image: dperson/samba
      ports:
        - 445:445
      volumes:
        - "{{ samba_data_directory}}:/etc/samba/"
        - "/home/me/samba_share:/samba_share"
      env:
        TZ: "America/Chicago"
        UID: '1000'
        GUID: '1000'
        USER: "me;mysambapassword"
        WORKERGROUP: "my-samba-workergroup"
      restart_policy: unless-stopped

  handlers:
  - name: Restart samba container
    community.docker.docker_container:
      name: samba
      restart: true