Ansible Contributor Summit - Durham 2023

[cybette (Carol Chen)]

Ansible Contributor Summit in Durham, October 19, 2023

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The Ansible Contributor Summit is a full day working session especially for community contributors to interact with one another, as well as with Ansible development teams (Core, AWX, Galaxy etc.). We will discuss important issues affecting the Ansible contributor community to help shape the future of Ansible, with a focus on improving collaboration with our contributors.

We will have a mini conference in the morning with presentations, and join the rest of DjangoCon in the afternoon for sprinting and hacking.

Part of DjangoCon US 2023

To join in-person

• Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
• Location: Durham convention center, NC 27701, USA
• Room: Meeting room 1-2 (sessions), Meeting room 3-4 (lunch)
• Registration: please select the ticket for Ansible Contributor Summit + Sprint (Thursday Oct 19) when you register for DjangoCon.
• Cost: The Ansible Contributor Summit is free and can be selected independently, you only need to pay for DjangoCon tickets if you are interested in attending DjangoCon itself, which we recommend you do if you are a Django developer.
• COVID-19 Policy: Please refer to DjangoCon’s COVID-19 In-Person Policy. As we are part of DjangonCon’s Sprints, we will adhere to the same policy. DjangoCon will provide masks and test kits on-site if you are unable to obtain them in advance.

To join online:

• Registration: Please register and select the ticket for Ansible Contributor Summit + Sprint *Online* (Thursday Oct 19).
• Cost: The Ansible Contributor Summit is free and can be selected independently, you only need to pay for DjangoCon tickets if you are interested in attending DjangoCon itself, which we recommend you do if you are a Django developer.
• Online chat: https://matrix.to/#/#summit:ansible.com
• More information (such as live streams) will be provided closer to the event.

Agenda

Take a look at the event schedule and talk details in this post.

Streaming and online participation

Ansible Contributor Summit, Durham 2023

Remember you can join the conversation and chat in real time in our Matrix room during the streaming:

• Online chat: https://matrix.to/#/#summit:ansible.com

Tag your socials with #AnsibleContributor when talking Contributor Summit for a shout-out!

Code of Conduct

For Ansible community events, we adhere to the Ansible Community Code of Conduct.

[Leo (Leo Gallego)]

• @Leo, Ansible Community Updates, ~30 min

  • An update on the status of the community. Based on previous presentations, but updated and with a twist towards contributors.
  • Presentation + discussion

• @Leo, the Forum as a contributors space , ~30 min

  • The Forum is live! This new space for community engagement and discussion is available to all Ansible projects and contributors. Join us for a discussion on how to onboard an Ansible project if you are an Ansible developer or how to bring a topic into light if you are a contributor
  • Small presentation + discussion
  • https://forum.ansible.com

[tima (Tim Appnel)]

• @tima, What’s New and Ahead with Ansible Automation Development Tools, ~45 minutes
  • This talk will go over the Ansible automation developer tools for the community, what is the roadmap and work underway. To begin I’ll briefly cover what it means to be an Ansible automation developer and the existing tools available to the community for creating content. The talk will continue with an updated look at new releases such as Molecule 6 and what lies ahead for the Ansible automation developer experience in the coming months and years.
  • Links
    • GitHub - ansible/ansible-lint: ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved
    • GitHub - ansible/vscode-ansible: vscode/vscodium extension for providing Ansible auto-completion and integrating quality assurance tools like ansible-lint, ansible syntax check, yamllint, molecule and ansible-test.
    • GitHub - ansible/molecule: Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible content: collections, playbooks and roles
    • GitHub - ansible/ansible-navigator: A text-based user interface (TUI) for Ansible.
    • GitHub - ansible/pytest-ansible: A pytest plugin that enables the use of ansible in tests, enables the use of pytest as a collection unit test runner, and exposes molecule scnearios through a pytest fixture.
    • GitHub - tox-dev/tox-ansible: The tox-ansible plugin dynamically creates a full matrix of python interpreter and ansible-core version environments for running integration, sanity, and unit for an ansible collection both locally and in a Github action. tox virtual environments are leveraged for collection building, collection installation, dependency installation, and testing.
  • This will be a presentation

[briantist]

Do we need to purchase actual tickets for the main event in order to attend the 19th sprints/contrib summit? I would like to go but I don’t use Django and so I don’t really have any interest in attending the sessions on the other days.

[Leo (Leo Gallego)]

Hey @briantist! No need to buy djangocon tickets.

We are sharing the tickets Platform, but you can pick the Ansible Contributor free tickets without paying for anything else. Let us know if you have any issues with that!

We will make this more clear! Thank you for raising the issue!

[fosterseth (Seth Foster)]

• Seth Foster, Inbound hop nodes in AWX, ~20 minutes
  • Talk about recent improvements for remote execution including hop nodes and ingress hop nodes
  • presentation + discussion
  • links
    • Ability to allow inbound connection to AWX receptor mesh on Kubernetes - #9 by fosterseth

[CFSNM (Cesar Francisco San Nicolas Martinez)]

César Francisco San Nicolas, QE efforts on the Mesh Scaling feature in AWX, ~25 minutes

• Following up Seth’s talk about hop nodes and inbound connections, will talk about how QE has been testing the Mesh Scaling feature, presenting some scenarios and corner cases
• Presentation + discussion + Q/A

[DesmondSanctity (Desmond Obisi)]

• @DesmondSanctity, AWX Operator Documentation, What’s New? ~30 min
  • The new AWX Operator Docs is live. Join us in discussing how we used the Community Writers’ effort to make this a success—the process, contributions, and how everything summed up to the new documentation.
  • This will be a presentation.
  • Link to track the documentation progress
    • Split Readme up into multiple files · Issue #1360 · ansible/awx-operator · GitHub
    • https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/awx-operator/index.html

[jlmitch5 (John Mitchell)]

• @jlmitch5: What’s changed with the new http://galaxy.ansible.com, 20 minutes
• Abstract: We will go over the changes to the new http://galaxy.ansible.com. We will talk about the switchover to the galaxy-ng codebase as well as a roadmap of what to expect in the coming weeks. Finally, we’ll discuss how you can keep up to date with the project and how to get involved as a contributor.

[nitzmahone (Matt Davis)]

Doh, missed the Friday deadline- the whole core team was in Durham last week for our first (nearly) all-hands face-to-face in about 5 years. Too bad we couldn’t get it lined up with the contrib summit!

• @nitzmahone, Ansible Core/Builder/Runner updates and roadmap, 30min
  • What’s new/upcoming
  • Presentation + discussion

[Leo (Leo Gallego)]

Hi @nitzmahone Thanks for the submission, i think we can make it work!

Hopefully we can line them up for next year if there is another f2f by core!

[Leo (Leo Gallego)]

Thanks all for your submissions, we are very excited to have so many topics around new features and projects. We will be working on the agenda and will update the post with the details soon.

I will be reaching out to all of you who submitted to confirm your topics. If someone that proposed a topic is not able to make it to the Contributor Summit please let us know here or by DM.

[Leo (Leo Gallego)]

The agenda for Ansible Contributor Summit, Durham 2023 has been published and the main post updated with additional details.

Agenda for Ansible Contributor Summit - Durham 2023

Agenda for Ansible Contributor Summit, Durham 2023 Check the event details in this topic if you want to attend in-person or online. Time note for online attendees: The event is in Durham, North Carolina, United States. All times in the agenda are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), if you are connecting remotely, please make sure to convert to your local timezone. EDT is the same as UTC-4. Event agenda Presentations (9 AM to 3 PM) Time Topic Speakers 08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast 09:00 - 09:1…

Keep in mind we will be updating this main post as well as the schedule, bookmark this thread for reference by touching the 3 dots next to reply and then clicking the bookmark icon:

Thank you all who submitted a topic, and see you all next Thursday in Durham!

[Leo (Leo Gallego)]

We are live. Stream in the parent post above! Join us!