So, I wonder why not just a Dockerfile instead of writing a playbook
One of the maintainers commented in a sibling comment to yours that they use the same ansible to build VM images, so that was more work.
> and then using `docker commit` (a command I've barely used/seen being used in my 2+ years of using docker daily).
Well, if you use Dockerfiles then of course you won't see a command used mostly by alternative build processes, but that's hardly a meaningful objection.
One of the maintainers commented in a sibling comment to yours that they use the same ansible to build VM images, so that was more work.
> and then using `docker commit` (a command I've barely used/seen being used in my 2+ years of using docker daily).
Well, if you use Dockerfiles then of course you won't see a command used mostly by alternative build processes, but that's hardly a meaningful objection.