The Bullhorn #144

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This week in Ansible Community

Issue #144, 2024-07-05 (Past Issues)

Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!

KEY DATES :stopwatch:

RELEASES:
  • 2024-07-15: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.17.2
  • 2024-07-16: ETA for Ansible Community Package 10.2.0
  • 2024-07-16: ETA for Ansible Community Package 9.8.0
OTHERS:

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES :speaker:

Leo contributed

Are you an Ansible collection developer, maintainer or contributor? Or want to become one? Then we have some great news!

A new dedicated category for Ansible Collections development has been created in the Forum. If you are developing a module or plugin, or even a role, join the discussions here in the Collection Development category. You can also share your created collections, request feedback and ask for guidance.

Felix Fontein contributed

If you are using the shared workflows from GitHub - ansible-community/github-docs-build: GitHub actions and workflows for building Ansible collection documentation. to publish dcumentation to GitHub Pages as described in Getting started with GitHub Pages · ansible-community/github-docs-build Wiki · GitHub, you need to update your workflows, since publishing will no longer work since beginning of this month. See Collection documentation using GitHub Actions: changes to how GH pages can be published for more information.

MAJOR NEW RELEASES :trophy:

Antsibull :arrow_upper_right:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

Felix Fontein contributed

antsibull-docs 2.12.0 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released with new features and bugfixes. The collection docs linter now informs about unchanged default values copied from the collection_template repository and flags empty markup like C() or I(). Also it is now possible to list the Ansible Forum (or other forums) in the collection’s communication channels (Creating a collection docsite - antsibull-docs – Ansible Documentation Build Scripts).

PROJECT UPDATES :hammer_and_wrench:

TVo contributed

Hi all,

We’re happy to announce that the latest release of AWX, version 24.6.1 is now available!
Some notable features include:

  • Added new content for OpenShift Virtualization inventory source to the AWX User Guide (PR #15299)

In addition, AWX Operator version 2.19.1 has also been released!
Some notable features include:

  • Updated the kind-install.md doc to show the kubectl instead of oc in the create AWX CR command (PR #1903)
  • Updated index.md file to reflect AWX Operator (PR #1904)

Please see the releases pages for more details:
AWX: Release 24.6.1 · ansible/awx · GitHub
Operator: Release 2.19.1 · ansible/awx-operator · GitHub

Link to forum: Announcing AWX 24.6.1 and AWX-Operator 2.19.1

The AWX team

Please note, this will be the last AWX release until further notice. Please see discussions here: Streamlining AWX Releases

NEW RELEASES :trophy:

See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.

COLLECTION UPDATES :magic_wand:

abuzachis shared

amazon.aws 8.1.0 has been released with several documentation improvements and two new features for the s3_bucket module:

  • s3_bucket - Add object_lock_default_retention to set Object Lock default retention configuration for S3 buckets (#2062).
  • s3_bucket - Add support for enabling Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration by setting the accelerate_enabled option (#2046).
  • Full changelog

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! :ballot_box:

gundalow contributed

Hey folks, I’ve just posted an important update about how we will be Streamlining AWX releases.

I would love to hear your feedback, so if you can, please take the time to read that and let us know what you think. Ideally by replying to the Forum Post, though via Matrix is also OK via the #awx:ansible.com channel.

  • Moving AWX to CalVer
  • How we build and distribute AWX
  • Pausing upstream releases
  • How we move common code into shared libraries

Please join the discussion and share your perspective via the Streamlining AWX releases Forum post.

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS :date:

Leo shared

EuroPython 2024 is happening next week in Prague, Czech Republic. If you are attending, let us know by leaving a comment in the Forum topic above! We would love to see someone share a trip report or tell us about their experience related to Ansible there as well!

Nikhil Jain contributed

Ansible Pune Meetup: We recently (29th June) hosted the latest Ansible Meetup @ HPE Pune.

The meetup was a great success, with over 40 attendees. We created a lab on Google Cloud Shell, and everyone was able to complete it along with us. Here’s what we covered in the lab:

  • Introduction to Ansible
  • Running Ad-hoc Commands
  • Writing Your First Playbook
  • Using Variables
  • Conditionals, Handlers, and Loops
  • Building Templates

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and everyone enjoyed the hands-on session.

Leo said

Ansible Benelux Meetup happening this Saturday July 6th: Join Ismail Dhaoui and Ton Kersten for an Ansible EDA presentation and Ansible for Windows automation workshop!

More Events

See Events - Ansible for upcoming community events.

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 o leave a reply below! See you next time!

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