This week in Ansible Community
Issue #161, 2024-11-11 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Collection tutorials
andersson007_ shared
Interested in creating an Ansible content collection with modules and become a maintainer of your own open source project or just curious?
There are two guides on the forum to help you:
- How to create an Ansible collection with a simple module step by step: will guide you through the process of creating a dummy module and its tests.
- How to set up a repository for an Ansible collection step by step: will show you how to publish the module and tests on GitHub using the collection_template repository.
We are planning more related topics. Any feedback in comments is welcome!
Major new releases 
ansible-core 2.18
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New Release: ansible-core v2.18.0 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.0
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-core 2.17.6
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New Release: ansible-core v2.17.6 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.6
ansible-core 2.16.13
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New Release: ansible-core v2.16.13 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.13
ansible-core 2.15.13
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New Release: ansible-core v2.15.13 - New Release: ansible-core v2.15.13
ansible-core 2.14.18
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New Release: ansible-core v2.14.18 - New Release: ansible-core v2.14.18
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.
Ansible 11 beta
Felix Fontein shared
Ansible 11.0.0b2 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.0.0b2 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.0.0b2 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/11/CHANGELOG-v11.md at 11.0.0b2 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 11 Porting Guide (Ansible 11 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Ansible 10.6
mariolenz shared
Ansible 10.6.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==10.6.0 --user
Ansible 9.12
mariolenz said
Ansible 9.12.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==9.12.0 --user
Collection updates 
community.general
Felix Fontein shared
community.general 10.0.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) has been released with many new features, modules, and plugins; many bugfixes; and some breaking changes, removed features, and deprecations. Please consult the changelog for more details! The next planned 10.x.y release will be 10.1.0 around December 2nd for Ansible 11.1.0, but there might be one or more bugfix release(s) for Ansible 11.0.0rc1 or 11.0.0rc2, if necessary.
community.clickhouse
andersson007_ shared
The community.clickhouse collection:
- Version 0.7.0 has been released! Among a few minor changes, it ships a new info module to fetch information from YAML and XML config files and return it as JSON.
- We’d also like to remind about the ClickHouse Ansible collection team on the Ansible forum that welcome folks to join.
- For the ClickHouse automation related questions, please use the
clickhousetag on the forum.- We are planning to submit the collection for inclusion in the Ansible community package soon!
- Your starts matter to us! Please star the repo if you like the initiative.
Other releases
See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.
Community events and meetups 
Cfgmgmtcamp CfP
Oranod shared
Hi everyone! Good news that the deadline to submit proposals for Configuration Management Camp (Cfgmgmtcamp) has been extended until the end of next week!! We’re back next year right after FOSDEM in Ghent, Belgium from Feb 3rd to 5th. This is a great event for IaC enthusiasts in EMEA so mark your calendars.
The CFP is now open and looking for proposals for ignite talks, presentations, and workshops. This year we had two full Ansible tracks and a ton of interest in all things Ansible. We’d like to make next year’s event even better. So if you have any community Ansible topics or experiences with Ansible Automation Platform that you think would benefit the wider IaC ecosystem, please submit your proposal by November 15th. You can find the CFP here: CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent :: pretalx
Thanks and looking forward to seeing some Ansible talks in Ghent!
Ansible contributor summit
Oranod contributed
Ansible Contributor Summit is coming to Cfgmgmtcamp 2025! We’ll be back with a full day working session especially for community users and contributors to interact with one another, as well as with Ansible development teams. We will discuss important issues affecting the Ansible community to help shape the future of Ansible with a focus on improving collaboration with our contributors.
We’re still working on putting together an agenda and there are more details to come but go ahead and mark your calendars and save the date!
We’d also like to ask our community what they’d like to hear, speak about, or participate in. So, if you’re planning to attend either in person or virtually, let us know what you’d like to add to the agenda. Head over to our Contributor Summit at Cfgmgmtcamp 2025 event topic in the forum and give us your thoughts.
Other events
See the Events - Ansible category for more upcoming Ansible 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! See you next time!