The Bullhorn #130

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This week in Ansible Community

Issue #130, 2024-02-19 (Past Issues)

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KEY DATES :stopwatch:

cybette said

MAJOR NEW RELEASES :trophy:

Antsibull :arrow_upper_right:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

gotmax23 said

antsibull 0.60.0 has been released! The new release includes 4 new subcommands, amongst other features and bugfixes.

Felix Fontein contributed

antsibull-changelog 0.25.0 has been released with a bugfix for the generate subcommand when used with --output and --output-format. It also allows to show its own version with the new --version parameter.

Felix Fontein said

antsibull-changelog 0.24.0 has been released. It now allows to emit the changelog in MarkDown format.

AWX Project :arrow_upper_right:

AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. Join the AWX discussion in the Ansible Community Forum.

thedoubl3j contributed

We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 23.8.1 is now available!
Some notable features include:

  • Multi-arch Operator Release Changes
  • Add dockerx make target for building awx for arm64
  • Added mesh ingress content to instances chapter.
  • Addresses known issue found in 23.8.0

In addition AWX Operator version 2.12.1 has also been released!

Please see the releases pages for more details: AWX, Operator.

TheRealHaoLiu shared

We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 23.8.0 is now available!
Some notable features include:

  • Add support for mesh ingress
  • Per-service metrics http server
  • awxkit: allow to modify api base url
  • Fix the way we are passing the awxkit base path to resources
  • Added LDAP support for HashiCorp Vault lookup credential
  • Add new credential type to support Terraform backend configuration
  • Allow connecting to websockets via api/websocket/
  • Websockets now use rest_framework configed auth
  • Allow DATABASES configuration without a password

In addition AWX Operator version 2.12.0 has also been released!
Some notable features include:

  • add ‘customSecrets’ and ‘customVolumes’ values to Helm Chart to simplifies the creation of ressources for PoC
  • Allow connecting to websockets via api/websocket/

Please see the releases pages for more details: AWX, Operator.

PROJECT UPDATES :hammer_and_wrench:

Ansible :arrow_upper_right:

The Ansible package includes ansible-core and is a batteries-included package that provides a curated set of Ansible collections. See the Ansible roadmaps for future release plans.

Felix Fontein shared

The Ansible 9 changelog is now available in MarkDown format (next to RST) - this allows to look at it on GitHub without having to parse RST in your head.

COLLECTION UPDATES :magic_wand:

abuzachis shared

amazon.aws 7.3.0 has been released with minor bugfixes, some new features and improvements. (see changelog for details).

amazon.aws 6.5.2 has been released with a bugfix for the amazon.aws.aws_ec2 inventory plugin when retrieving information for more than 40 instances with use_ssm_inventory. (see changelog for details).

gomathiselvi shared

kubernetes.core 2.4.1 has been released with several trivial bug fixes related to code sanity. (see changelog for details).

demetri said

The ibm_zos_core 1.9.0-beta.1 collection is now available on Galaxy. This release includes 11 enhancements and 6 bug fixes. Check out the blog for more details.

andersson007_ shared

the community.postgresql collection version 2.4.5 and 3.4.0 have been released!

aleks_vagachev contributed

the community.clickhouse collection version 0.3.0 has been released!

Collection Removal

mariolenz contributed

The purestorage.fusion collection has been deprecated by its maintainers. Since it is no longer being developed, we have decided to remove the collection from Ansible 10.

Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.fusion even when it has been removed from Ansible.

mariolenz shared

The netapp.storagegrid collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 11 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 11. See the removal process for details on how this works.

Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.storagegrid even when it has been removed from Ansible.

mariolenz contributed

It looks like the community.rabbitmq collection is effectively unmaintained. According to the current community guidelines for collections, we consider removing it in a future version of the Ansible community package. Please see Unmaintained collection: community.rabbitmq for more information or to announce that you’re interested in taking over the maintenance of (a fork of) community.rabbitmq.

At least one month after this announcement appears here and in the collection’s issue tracker, the Ansible Community Steering Committee will vote on whether this collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed, or whether it will be kept. If it will be removed, this will happen earliest in Ansible 11. Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install community.rabbitmq even when it has been removed from Ansible.

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! :ballot_box:

Felix Fontein said

Reminder: There is a proposal to declare the community.routeros stable-1 branch as End Of Life. If you are using 1.x.y versions of community.routeros, please come forward in that issue. Thanks!

Felix Fontein said

Reminder: There is a proposal to declare the community.dns stable-1 branch as End Of Life. If you are using 1.x.y versions of community.dns, please come forward in that issue. Thanks!

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS :date:

Christian Jung shared

We’re excited to announce the next German Ansible user meeting (Ansible Anwendertreffen) for Wednesday, 28 February, 2024. Join us to discuss, share, collaborate and learn how to use Ansible in your organization. Find the agenda and more details on our web site.

cybette contributed

A couple of upcoming meetups, check out the details and RSVP:

COMMUNITY UPDATES :ear:

steampunks contributed

We’re excited to introduce the first version of Spotter Assistant Playground, enabling you to get pre-built examples from Ansible Galaxy and enter your own prompts to speed up Ansible Playbook development. Check it out and share your thoughts to help us improve it.

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW!

Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in #social:ansible.com! See you next time!

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