Release Announcement: Community Execution Environment Base 2.17-1

Hello everyone,

We’re happy to announce the release of the

What’s inside Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.17-1(Latest)?

This container image includes :

Base_image: fedora 40

ansible-core: ansible-core 2.17 (latest version of ansible-core)

collections: The following set of collections

ansible.posix 1.5.4

ansible.utils 4.1.0

ansible.windows 2.3.0

sha256 sum value of the container image :

sha256:5f548f4f4de05ccb49b5fe16a220230b98d9406fe6d9af11c39b94b925ac80f9

How to get community-ee-base 2.17-1 (Latest)?

Install from command line via @sha256_sum_value of the image

`podman pull Package community-ee-base · GitHub

Install from command line via image tag

podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:latest

`podman pull Package community-ee-base · GitHub

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On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

Cheers,

Ansible Community Team

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I can not find this linked anywhere, so I will do so here:

I’m fairly sure, but could use confirmation, this is the active source for those images.

thoughts on adding ansible.netcommon as well?

Quite a few parts of ansible.netcommon don’t make sense without further network collections installed. Is there something specific in ansible.netcommon that you would find useful that works without network collections installed?

I guess that is fair, I was thinking the connection types could be useful as a base so then any type of device should be somewhat accessible with this EE. but as you said it would likely just require another collection so putting that in the base doesn’t make much of a difference.

That is correct @AlanCoding, the repo is:

@anwesha , maybe we can add a line and a link to the repo to the release template, for those interested in contributing?

Are the @release-managers members also working on the community-ee builds?