restart docker when mounted file changes

[Koen Janssens]

Hi, 

I have an ansible tasklist that generates a cfg file from a template first and then starts a docker container using that cfg file as a volume. 

Works fine. 

But when the generated cfg file changes (cfg file is actually generated from ansible inventory) , the docker container is not restarted, since from docker perspective nothing changed.Is there a way to 'force' ansible to restart the container under cetain conditions ? 

Thanks, 

Koen

Cfg: 

---

- template: "src=members.conf.j2 dest={{ docker_host_dir }}/members.conf"

- name: balancer

  docker:

     name: balancer

     image: <...>

     state: reloaded

     net: "{{ docker_net }}"

     ports:

     - "8000:8000"

     volumes:

     - "{{ docker_host_dir }}/members.conf:/usr/local/apache2/conf/members.conf"

[Uditha Desilva]

Changing "state: restarted" (rather than reloaded) might be enough -- otherwise try adding a "notify" to the task that is creating the config file, and a "handler" to explicitly stop and then start the container.