We are announcing the deprecation of the cisco.asa Ansible Collection as of December 2024, which will reach its official end-of-life in December 2026.
Impact:
No new features or enhancements will be added to the cisco.asa collection.
Limited Maintenance:
Only critical bug fixes and security vulnerabilities will be addressed. No guarantees of compatibility with ansible-core versions >2.17 will be provided.
Community Maintenance:
Post-deprecation, the maintenance of cisco.asa collection will be transferred to the community for best-effort maintenance.
Why?
Cisco has deprecated ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) in favor of its next-generation Firepower solutions. Firepower delivers enhanced capabilities, integrating advanced threat detection and firewall functionalities.
For more details, please refer to the official Cisco ASA deprecation announcement.