This week in Ansible Community
Issue #215, 2026-01-16 (Past Issues)
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Red Hat Summit 2026: Early Bird tickets available now!
Join us for Red Hat Summit & Ansible Fest in Atlanta, GA | May 11-14, 2026
Early bird tickets are available till 23rd January, so don’t miss out
View the full agenda when the session catalog launches in March 2026.
Major new releases 
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.
Felix Fontein said
Ansible-core devel, 2.20, 2.19, and 2.18 have seen multiple OS-specific CI image and VM updates this week. Please look at the summary on the Forum (Ansible-test images and VMs update (devel, 2.20, 2.19, 2.18)) for what exactly changed.
Antsibull 
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
Felix Fontein said
antsibull-changelog 0.35.0 (antsibull-changelog/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-changelog · GitHub) has been released. It now processes Ansible markup in module/plugin/role
short_descriptionwhen detecting new modules/plugins/roles.
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
As mentioned in The Bullhorn, we consider
netapp.cloudmanageran effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we’ve opened a community / steering committee vote on removing it from the Ansible Community Package 15.
Please note that you can still manually install the collection withansible-galaxy collection install netapp.cloudmanagereven when it has been removed from the Ansible Community Package.
Collection updates 
community.clickhouse
fako1024 shared
The community.clickhouse collection version 2.0.0 has been released!
Ansible Podman collection
sshnaidm said
A lot of changes for Ansible Podman collection since the last announcement: inventory plugins for Podman and Buildah, new modules -
podman_system_connection,podman_system_connection_info, buildah and podman connections are rewritten from scratch and perform as local connections now. See the new README: GitHub - containers/ansible-podman-collections: Repository for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins for use with the Podman tool
amazon.aws
Bianca Henderson contributed
The amazon.aws collection version 11.0.0 has been released!
This major release includes changes such as refactored S3 module utilities to consolidate duplicate code, add comprehensive type hints and docstrings, and improve maintainability. Additionally,botocoreandboto3versions have been bumped to 1.35.0 andawscliversion has been bumped to 1.34.0. Please check out the changelog for more information!
amazon.aws
Bianca Henderson said
The amazon.aws collection version 10.2.0 has been released!
This release adds support for theio2storage type for RDS as well as other minor changes, several bugfixes and deprecated features. Please see the changelog for more info.
infra.aap_configuration
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.aap_configuration 4.2.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with Ansible Automation Platform via Ansible roles using the supported collections modules.
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.beszel
dbrennand said
community.beszel 0.6.1 has been released with a fix for the community.beszel.agent role to correctly restart the beszel-agent service when configuration is changed.
Certified Collections
- ibm.storage_virtualize 3.1.0
- purestorage.flashblade 1.24.0
- amazon.aws 10.1.2
- amazon.aws 11.0.0
- google.cloud 1.11.0
- gluware_inc.control 2.0.3
- ansible.controller 4.7.8
- ansible.scm 3.1.0
Validated Collections
- network.backup 5.1.0
- infra.aap_configuration 4.2.0
- infra.aap_configuration_extended 4.1.0
Community events and meetups 
Ansible Contributor Summit 2026
anwesha contributed
The Ansible Contributor Summit 2026 is only a few days away on Wednesday, February 4th, in Ghent! We’re working on the agenda for both our morning and afternoon sessions and want to hear from you.
This is an opportunity for anyone who participates in the Ansible community to raise discussion items, voice concerns, demo a project, share their ideas, and ask questions. If you plan to join us in Ghent, online or in-person, please let us know by giving us your RSVP in the forum.
We’ve also outlined a tentative agenda in the forum. If you are interested in presenting during the Ansible Contributor Summit, please reply to our forum post with your topic and let us know if you have a preferred time.
Our tentative agenda is as follows:
09.00 to 09.10 // Introductions and getting to know each other
09.10 to 10.30 // @oranod and @gundalow share updates from the community and partner engineering team at Red Hat and delve into our plans for the year ahead.
10.30 to 11.30 // @felixfontein and @nitzmahone lead an open discussion about the state of things in Ansible and how we can improve.
11.30 to 11.50 // Break
11.50 to 12.50 // @anwesha and @gundalow discuss Bullhorn improvements, release calendar sync, meetup strategy, and other topics related to communication and promotion of the Ansible community.
This year we’re also considering something different for the afternoon session. We’re looking at options for a light social excursion, think a boat tour or walking tour of Ghent, that might be a refreshing alternative and an opportunity for folks to get to know each other better. Please respond to our forum poll and let us know your preference.
See you in Ghent!
CfgMgmtCamp 2026
anwesha said
Join the Ansible Community at CfgMgmtCamp 2026!
Hello everyone,
It’s that time of year again! CfgMgmtCamp, our favorite annual gathering for open-source infrastructure automation, is just around the corner.
We are thrilled to see a massive Ansible presence on the schedule this year. From deep dives into Core to creative automation hacks, there is plenty for every contributor and user to dig into. It’s a fantastic opportunity to meet the faces behind the code, swap stories, and help shape the future of our ecosystem.
Check out the full schedule here and here is the list of all the Ansible Sessions:
- Building an Infrastructure Automation Platform using Platform Engineering principles by Niklas Werker
- Use Best-in-Class Tools for End-to-End Automation by Vincent Seynhaeve
- Growing a startup using ansible by Johan Van de Wauw
- OpenTofu Builds It, Ansible Configures It: Using the Right Tool for the Right Job by James Freeman
- Ansible for Beginners: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Learned the Hard Way by James Freeman
- Composing systems in an automated way with Ansible, Podman, and bootc by Fabio Alessandro “Fale” Locati
- Ansible - State of the Community by Gundalow
- Using antsibull-nox to test your Ansible collection by Felix Fontain
- Debugging Playbooks Made Easy: The Ansible Playbook Debugger by Jure Medvesek
- Building a self-contained, zero-dependency deployment with Ansible by Daniel Podwysocki
- Building CI/CD Pipelines for your Ansible code by Ottavia Balducci
- Behind The Scene- How We Ship Ansible Network Collections by Chetna Agrawal
- ansible-docsmith - ultimate tool to document ansible roles by Kirill Satarin
- Event-Driven Infrastructure Automation with Ansible and Kafkaby Ruchi Pakhle
- How (not) to create Ansible collections from OpenAPI specifications? by Christian Stankowic & Pascal Kontschan
- Asking a local LLM about my Ansible playbooks because why not ! by David Moreau-Simard
- Reliable Network Backups & Restore with Ansible: Idempotent, Vendor-Neutral, with AI/ML Diff Severity by Rohit Thakur
- How we opened up Ansible’s documentation infrastructure to the community by Don Naro
- Ansible Style Guide and guidelines for compatibility with newer versions of Ansible community package/ansible-core (Ansible 12/ansible-core 2.19 and above) by Kostiantyn Volenbovskyi
- Writing, running, and testing awesome Ansible content with natural language and AI - powered by Ansible’s MCP server by Shatakshi Mishra
- A Love Letter to Ansible Core 2.19 by Matt Davis
In addition to the session we do have an Ansible booth please come over and say hi at the booth, we can’t wait to see you in person!
Community events and meetups
Upcoming Community Events
- 2026-01-17, Ansible-india: Ansible Bangalore Meetup - January 2026 [2026-01-17]
- 2026-01-22, AWS Community Meeting
- 2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp 2026
- 2026-02-05, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2026-02-10, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2026-05-11 Red Hat Summit & Ansible Fest
- Every Tuesday @11AM ET, Documentation Working Group
- Every Thursday @13:00 UTC, Network Working Group
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!