As for the feedback received in the previous answers, people would like to keep a "print-cmd" like, which makes total sense.
I was thinking we could write a proper check mode for the podman_container module, which could output the podman commands that are run by the module.
We could also extract the container management tasks to its own playbook so an operator who would usually run:
$ paunch debug (...) --action print-cmd

replaced by:
$ ansible-playbook --check -i inventory.yaml containers.yaml


It's totally doable. Currently the module prints podman commands to syslog exactly as they are executed. We can definitely support check mode with it.
 
Challenges:
- no unit tests like in paunch, will need good testing with Molecule
 
The podman ansible modules are written in python, so i think we can still use some unittests in addition to molecule tests.


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Emilien Macchi


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Sagi Shnaidman