The Bullhorn #129

cybette
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 23:40:15 +0000
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This week in Ansible Community

Issue #129, 2024-02-02 (Past Issues)

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KEY DATES

cybette said

2024-02-03: FOSDEM 2024

2024-02-05: CfgMgmtCamp 2024

2024-02-06: DaWGs meeting, 16:00 UTC

2024-02-07: Ansible Collab - Ghent

2024-02-07: Community WG meeting, 19:00 UTC

2024-02-08: Bullhorn #130 content deadline, 18:00 UTC

2024-02-26: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.16.4, 2.15.10, and 2.14.15

2024-02-27: ETA for Ansible 9.3.0 release

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES

cybette shared

Ansible at FOSDEM / CfgMgmtCamp

For those participating in FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend, come say hi to us at the Ansible stand, and check out some of the Ansible related talks in different devrooms!

After that we head to CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent, with 2 Ansible tracks on 2 days filled with excellent presentations! We will round up the long week of conferences with Ansible Collab on Feb 7th, engaging in interesting discussions with the Ansible community throughout.

See you soon!

mariolenz said

The vote on the suggested Ansible 10 roadmap has been approved. The roadmap can be found here.

MAJOR NEW RELEASES

Ansible

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.

gotmax23 shared

Ansible 9.2.0 package is here!

You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==9.2.0 --user

Check Release Notes​:package: and Ansible 9 Porting Guide for more details!

AWX Project

AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. Join the AWX discussion in the Ansible Community Forum.

sfoster contributed

We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 23.7.0 is now available!
Some notable features include:

Add support for Bitbucket Data Center webhooks

Add userpass and LDAP support for HashiCorp vault credential_plugin

Added hop node documentation and expanded execution nodes section.

In addition AWX Operator version 2.11.0 has also been released!
Some notable features include:

Allow multiple ingress hosts to be defined when using ingress

multi-architecture builds and publish to quay

Adopt LISTENER_DATABASES setting

Add AWXMeshIngress custom resource (require ansible/awx#14640 to function)

Please see the releases pages for more details: AWX, Operator.

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.

cybette contributed

New releases: ansible-core 2.14.14, 2.15.9 and 2.16.3.

COLLECTION UPDATES

mariolenz contributed

The inspur.sm collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 11 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 11. See the removal process for details on how this works.

Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install inspur.sm even when it has been removed from Ansible.

Felix Fontein said

community.general 8.3.0 has been released with new features, modules, and bugfixes.

Felix Fontein shared

community.docker 3.7.0 is out with new features and bugfixes for the Docker Compose v2 modules, and with a new docker_image_export module for exporting Docker images.

Felix Fontein contributed

community.dns 2.8.0 has been released with renamed options for the inventory plugins - filters has been renamed to simple_filters - and an updated Public Suffix List.

andersson007_ said

the community.clickhouse collection version 0.2.0 has been released!

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE!

Felix Fontein said

There is a proposal to declare the community.dns stable-1 branch as End Of Life. If you are using 1.x.y versions of community.dns, please come forward in that issue. Thanks!

Felix Fontein shared

There is a proposal to declare the community.routeros stable-1 branch as End Of Life. If you are using 1.x.y versions of community.routeros, please come forward in that issue. Thanks!

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS

Christian Jung shared

We’re excited to announce the next German Ansible user meeting (Ansible Anwendertreffen). Join us to discuss, share, collaborate and learn how to use Ansible in your organization. Find the agenda and more details on our web site.

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!