The Bullhorn #184

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This week in Ansible Community
Issue #184, 2025-05-02 (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!

Templating and preparing for ansible-core 2.19

ansible-core has gone through an extensive rewrite for templating as describe in Data Tagging preview and testing. These changes are now in the devel branch.

Advice for playbook and roles users and creators

This change has the potential to impact both your playbooks/roles and collection development. As such, we are asking the community to test your playbooks/roles and against devel and provide feedback as described in Data Tagging preview and testing.
Community members have reported the need to update their playbooks or integration/unit tests.

Advice for collection maintainers

We are asking all collection maintainers to:

  • Review Data Tagging preview and testing for background and where to open issues against ansible-core if needed.
  • Review Making a collection compatible with data tagging for advice from your peers. Add your advice to help other collection maintainers prepare for this change.
  • Add devel to your CI testing and periodically verify results through the ansible-core 2.19 release to ensure compatibility with any changes/bugfixes that come as a result of your testing.

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General news updates :speaker_low_volume:

galaxy and eda operator releases

chadams contributed

Upcoming changes to Galaxy and EDA operator releases

There is a post here stating the intention take the same approach for the eda-server-operator and galaxy-operators as was taken for the awx-operator: To not cut and tag releases, but instead work from the main branch. In the post I included some instructions on how to pin to a given commit, etc.

Collection updates :magic_wand:

certified collections

samccann said

Certified collections updated this week:

cloud.aws_ops

gomathiselvi contributed

cloud.aws_ops 3.2.0 has been released. This release adds an optional credential field to contoller_projects
in configure_ec2 pattern and updates ansible-lint version. For details, refer changelog

community.docker

Felix Fontein said

community.docker 4.6.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a new feature for the docker_container_copy_into module that allows to specify how the mode parameter should be parsed.

community.hrobot

Felix Fontein contributed

community.hrobot 2.3.0 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released with a new module for creating and managing storage box snapshots.

Proposals - discuss and vote! :ballot_box_with_ballot:

Forum spam

mariolenz shared

We’re facing serious problems with spam on the forum. If you have any good ideas how to prevent this, please let us know here.

Community events and meetups :date:

DevConf.CZ

Oranod contributed

Mark your calendars for DevConf.CZ 2025!

DevConf.CZ is a community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference schedule has been announced and has several great Ansible sessions, including:

We’re also planning an Ansible meetup at DevConf.CZ. You can reply to our meetup event in the forum with questions and proposals for agenda items. We’d love to hear from you and get your thoughts on what you’d like to hear at the meetup.

DevConf is a free event but requires registration. So head over to the DevConf.CZ 2025 calendar event to find out details and let us know if you’re planning to attend.

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!

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!