This week in Ansible Community
Issue #156, 2024-10-07 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
@Leo said
We’re excited to launch the Ansible Project Survey 2024 - the first ever project-wide survey of the Ansible ecosystem. Please head to this link here to have your say about how you use Ansible, what features or content is more important, and what problems you encounter.
If you wish to learn a bit more about the survey first, read the post by Gwmngilfen on the Ansible Forum, where you will find the link too!
Major new releases 
@Leo shared
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 is now generally available (GA). This latest release is designed to simplify the creation, deployment, and scaling of mission-critical IT automation workflows across the enterprise. It features a reimagined platform UI, new capabilities like Ansible development tools for VS Code, and event streams for Event-Driven Ansible (EDA), along with key performance enhancements. Learn more about it here in the blog post
Ansible-Core 
The ansible-core package contains the base engine and a small subset of modules and plugins. To see what’s planned for the next release, look at the ansible-core roadmaps.
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.12 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.12
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.5
Collection updates 
@sean_sullivan said
infra.controller_configuration 2.11.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Controller server via Ansible roles using the AWX/Controller collection modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Controller and previously Ansible Tower For more information and updates.
@felixfontein shared
community.docker 3.13.0 has been released with two new Docker Compose v2 modules (
docker_compose_v2_execanddocker_compose_v2_run).
@mhjacks shared
The
servicenow.itsm2.7.0 has been released to Galaxy and Automation Hub. This release brings a new feature with an optional aggregated inventory feature, and marks the beginning of our support for the ServiceNow Xanadu release
Ansible Community Package
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.
@mariolenz contributed
The
ngine_io.exoscalecollection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 11.
@mariolenz contributed
The proposal to deprecate
community.networkand remove it from Ansible 11 has been rejected by a majority of the Steering Committee members. There is now a new vote open on deprecating the collection and removing it from Ansible 12.
Help wanted 
@mariolenz asked
It looks like people have problems with the
google.cloudcollection. It’s not really unmaintained (there has been a new release in August), but on the other it showed up as a possibly unmaintained collection at least once. Long story short: If someone is interested to help with this collection, or fork it and start a new one, please join the community version of google.cloud discussion and let us know!
Community events and meetups 
@oranod shared
Ansible Contributor Summit is coming to Ghent! Mark your calendars and RSVP to let us know if you’re joining us as we get together with Ansible users, contributors, and development teams to share ideas, have some fun, discuss the future of the Ansible community, and improve collaboration. We’re still working on all the details but would like to hear ideas and suggestions from you. Please reply to the forum topic and let us know what you’d like to see on the agenda.
@oranod shared
Do you like waffles and yaml? Have you got an interesting talk about Ansible or Infrastructure-as-Code in general?
If the answer to those questions is “yes”, then you should submit a talk to Configuration Management Camp (Cfgmgmtcamp) 2025. The CFP is open until the end of October with a range of different events to choose from, ignite talks, presentations, workshops, and fringes. Don’t delay, submit today!
@oranod said
Luca Berton has shared a blog post with details about the Ansible London Meetup that recently took place. In his post, titled Ansible Community Meetup 2024: Updates, Releases, and Networking, Luca provides his take and an overview of the presentation from the Ansible community team at Red Hat that gave a brief update on initiatives to support contributors and foster the community. So head over to Luca’s blog to read the post and catch up on what took place at the London meetup.
You can also read about Luca’s own very interesting presentation titled Setting Up Neo4j GenAI Environment on Fedora Using Ansible, which was a lot of fun. You can also find all the presentations from the meetup, as well as all previous meetups, in the London meetup GitHub repository.
@Leo shared
containerday Italy 2024 is happening on October 10 in Bologna, Italy. @fale will be presenting “Migliora la gestione dei container con Event-Driven Ansible”. Check the event here in the forum.
Other events
See the Events - Ansible category for more upcoming Ansible community events.
That’s all for now!
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