This week in Ansible Community
Issue #176, 2025-03-09 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Software Supply Chain
Oranod said
For those of you who appreciate academic research, Ruben Opdebeeck from Software Languages Lab recently presented “Analysing Software Supply Chains of Infrastructure as Code: Extraction of Ansible Plugin Dependencies” at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025) in Montréal, Canada. This work was done in collaboration with Bram Adams and Coen De Roover and examines how Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Ansible, and their dependencies form a crucial part of modern software supply chains.
It’s about a 10 minute read and puts forth some interesting conclusions based on the analysis the authors carried out. No spoiler here though! If you are on LinkedIn, be sure to check out Coen’s post with some photos of the presentation.
Collection updates 
community.docker
Felix Fontein said
community.docker 4.5.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with two new module options, one for
community.docker.docker_compose_v2and one forcommunity.docker.docker_network.
community.postgresql
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection version 3.11.0 has been released! Besides minor changes and bugfixes, there are also a couple of upcoming breaking changes announced in the changelog. Thanks everyone involved!
infra.ee_utilities
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.ee_utilities 4.0.0 has been released.\
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and converting from python environments to execution environments.\
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.
community.aws:8.1.0
abuzachis shared
community.aws 8.1.0 has been released with several new features and bug fixes. For full details, check out the changelog.
community.aws:9.1.0
Bianca Henderson contributed
community.aws 9.1.0 has been released with some new features and bugfixes. For more information, refer to the changelog for details!
amazon.aws
abuzachis contributed
amazon.aws 9.3.0 has been released with:
two new modules (ec2_dedicated_host and ec2_dedicated_host_info);
a new feature for the s3_object module that now supports passing metadata in create mode.
For full details, check out the changelog.
Certified Collections Released this week
Help wanted 
nitzmahone contributed
The Ansible Core team is seeking community testing and feedback on the long-awaited Data Tagging feature- see the forum post for details.
Community events and meetups 
London Meetup
gundalow shared
Ansible London Meetup writeup and slides
There was a London Meetup on 27th February, we received some feedback to share the slides on the Forum.
John Stilia recently wrote a book about Ansible The Tao of Ansible where he describes in simple words the philosophy around the tool while he teaches the reader the basics to get started. He took the opportunity to reach an even bigger audience, explain the reasons for writing such a book, and why he believe on the simplicity of the tool too.
One bit of feedback we got after the previous London Meetup was to provide some dedicated time for general discussion about Ansible. So, we did and happy to report it worked very well, over 30 minutes we had interactive discussions around the room, ranging from thought processes to linting, from tricks to testing. See the forum post for useful links.
We plan for the next meetup to be in July, so if you are in the London area, please join the meetup and submit your ideas for talks.
There’s a full write up and links on the forum, welcome any follow up discussion there.
Other events and releases
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Join the Ansible community
Looking for ways to get involved? See how can I help for some ideas!
You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.
That’s all for now!
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