Relations between containernames, setup and Galaxy

It’s not easy to find the relation between container names, facts returned from setup (or gather_facts) and Ansible Galaxy platform names.

Here is an attempt to make life a little easier:

Alpine

containername: alpine
ansible_os_family: Alpine
ansible_distribution: Alpine
galaxy_platform: Alpine
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
all latest 3
all edge 3

AmazonLinux

containername: amazonlinux
ansible_os_family: RedHat
ansible_distribution: Amazon
galaxy_platform: Amazon
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
Candidate latest 2
2018.03 1 2018

CentOS

containername: centos
ansible_os_family: RedHat
ansible_distribution: CentOS
galaxy_platform: EL
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
8 latest 8
7 7 7

RockyLinux

containername: rockylinux
ansible_os_family: RedHat
ansible_distribution: Rocky
galaxy_platform: EL
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
8 latest 8

Debian

containername: debian
ansible_os_family: Debian
ansible_distribution: Debian
galaxy_platform: Debian
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
bullseye latest 11
bookworm bookworm testing/12

Fedora

containername: fedora
ansible_os_family: RedHat
ansible_distribution: Fedora
galaxy_platform: Fedora
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
32 32 32
33 latest 33
34 rawhide 34

OpenSUSE

containername: opensuse
ansible_os_family: Suse
ansible_distribution: OpenSUSE
galaxy_platform: opensuse
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
all latest 15

Ubuntu

containername: ubuntu
ansible_os_family: Debian
ansible_distribution: Ubuntu
galaxy_platform: Ubuntu
galaxy_version docker_tag ansible_distribution_major_version
focal latest 20
bionic bionic 18
xenial xenial 16