# \#community-general **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/tag/community-general/381.md [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) --- ## [Keycloak modules in community.general](https://forum.ansible.com/t/keycloak-modules-in-community-general/41746)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/keycloak-modules-in-community-general/41746 "2026-09-11T15:10:39Z")
Hello! A couple of weeks ago I barged into a pull request in the community.general collection that was updating some Keycloak modules. Something that stuck out to me was a comment that @russoz made to the effect that t… --- ## [Add oneline callback to a collection (like community.general)?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-oneline-callback-to-a-collection-like-community-general/45967)
**Author:** [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-oneline-callback-to-a-collection-like-community-general/45967 "2026-08-06T20:13:25Z")
This topic is about the ansible.builtin.oneline callback plugin, which is essentially deprecated and will eventually be removed from ansible-core. @utoddl created a thread (Mitigating deprecation of --one-line and associ… --- ## [The Bullhorn #229](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-229/45842)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-229/45842 "2026-06-04T17:34:37Z")
This week in Ansible Community Issue #229, 2026-05-25 (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 ch… --- ## [Future of the (deprecated) paramiko connection plugin](https://forum.ansible.com/t/future-of-the-deprecated-paramiko-connection-plugin/45376)
**Author:** [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/future-of-the-deprecated-paramiko-connection-plugin/45376 "2026-03-13T06:49:12Z")
The paramiko connection plugin (which has been part of Ansible since version 0.1 apparently) has been deprecated in ansible-core 2.19, but apparently without any indication in the documentation and no runtime warning whe… --- ## [Goodbye 2025 and cheers to 2026!](https://forum.ansible.com/t/goodbye-2025-and-cheers-to-2026/45012)
**Author:** [@anwesha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anwesha)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/goodbye-2025-and-cheers-to-2026/45012 "2025-12-19T23:15:48Z")
Hello folks, As we wrap up 2025, let’s take a moment to celebrate our incredible Ansible community and the things we have achieved this year. 2025 has indeed been quite an eventful year for us. We had a few structural … --- ## [General Question about Ansible Breaking Changes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/general-question-about-ansible-breaking-changes/44901)
**Author:** [@JoschaF](https://forum.ansible.com/u/JoschaF)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/general-question-about-ansible-breaking-changes/44901 "2025-11-26T19:19:56Z")
Hello together, I’m currently working on my practical paper for my dual studies program in Germany with the task, to analyze AWX in comparison with Ansible cloud native solutions. For this, I have a question: How often… --- ## [The Bullhorn, #209](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-209/44851)
**Author:** [@anwesha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anwesha)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-209/44851 "2025-11-17T16:35:04Z")
This week in Ansible Community Issue #209, 2025-11-17 (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 ch… --- ## [The Bullhorn, #208](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-208/44811)
**Author:** [@anwesha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anwesha)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-208/44811 "2025-11-07T16:08:33Z")
This week in Ansible Community Issue #208, 2025-11-07 (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… --- ## [Liveness check: community.general Dimension Data cloud](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302)
**Author:** [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302 "2025-10-27T22:12:57Z")
Hi everyone, Yet another check, this time for the modules: community.general.dimensiondata\_vlan community.general.dimensiondata\_network And accompanying doc fragments and module utils. DimensionData seems to have be… --- ## [The Bullhorn #204](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-204/44663)
**Author:** [@anwesha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anwesha)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-204/44663 "2025-10-10T15:47:19Z")
This week in Ansible Community Issue #204, 2025-10-10 (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 ch… --- ## [Recommended way to shrink a logical volume?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/recommended-way-to-shrink-a-logical-volume/44508)
**Author:** [@mrP](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mrP)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/recommended-way-to-shrink-a-logical-volume/44508 "2025-09-17T13:44:36Z")
I have an ext4 path that is mounted on a logical volume. How do I shrink this without damaging the ext4 filesystem? I’m using community.general.lvol and noticed it has parameters shrink, resizefs and force. Can I just cr… --- ## [Community.general.systemd\_info: Scopes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-general-systemd-info-scopes/44413)
**Author:** [@paulcalabro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paulcalabro)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-general-systemd-info-scopes/44413 "2025-09-03T14:46:00Z")
It appears that the community.general.systemd\_info module does not support the user scope. Is this correct? If so, are there any workarounds? Are these the correct files that would need to be updated to add support for … --- ## [Should we deprecate community.general.terraform?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/should-we-deprecate-community-general-terraform/44363)
**Author:** [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/should-we-deprecate-community-general-terraform/44363 "2025-08-24T15:27:59Z")
Hi everyone, This situation with the terraform module has been in my radar (the far hidden corner of it for sure) for a while, and I was just about to write something in the forum when I did the search and found this co… --- ## [Liveness check: community.general.spectrum\_device](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-spectrum-device/44271)
**Author:** [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-spectrum-device/44271 "2025-08-16T05:32:14Z")
Hi everyone, This module seems to have been originally written for a product called “CA Spectrum”. My XML-fu is very rusty, but from what I see in the code, it looks to me that it relies on those http://www.ca.com/spect… --- ## [FreeIPA/IPA modules in community.general](https://forum.ansible.com/t/freeipa-ipa-modules-in-community-general/43501)
**Author:** [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/freeipa-ipa-modules-in-community-general/43501 "2025-08-15T02:34:52Z")
Hi everyone, The community.general collection currently hosts 19 modules related to FreeIPA or IPA. There 25 open issues related to those modules, some dating back from 2021. Whilst these modules have had some code chan… --- ## [Liveness check: community.general.bearychat](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-bearychat/44144)
**Author:** [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-bearychat/44144 "2025-08-09T03:52:48Z")
Hi everyone, I was reviewing something else in the community.general collection and the module bearychat came up. Curious - I have no recollection of hearing about that chat before, even though I have probably seen the … --- ## [Error: unable to find user root error](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-unable-to-find-user-root-error/43964)
**Author:** [@bmohanraj](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bmohanraj)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-unable-to-find-user-root-error/43964 "2025-07-21T17:52:18Z")
Getting unable to find root user error with communit-ee image in AAP. I am using community.vmware module to automate vm create and delete in vxrails. Below command works fine from my local linux machine. ansible-naviga… --- ## [ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'community.general.proxmox\_snap' despite collection installed](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-couldnt-resolve-module-action-community-general-proxmox-snap-despite-collection-installed/43454)
**Author:** [@Tealk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tealk)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-couldnt-resolve-module-action-community-general-proxmox-snap-despite-collection-installed/43454 "2025-06-18T21:40:06Z")
Description: When running a playbook that uses the community.general.proxmox\_snap module, I get the following error: TASK \[Create snapshot\] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*… --- ## [How to to chain double privilege escalation using sudo](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-to-chain-double-privilege-escalation-using-sudo/42724)
**Author:** [@RicoBelo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/RicoBelo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 19, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-to-chain-double-privilege-escalation-using-sudo/42724 "2025-05-19T10:03:29Z")
Hello, I’s like to manage a bastion appliance “Wallix Access Manager”. This appliance require a two-step sudo escalation to become root, and I don’t want to create an alternate user with specific sudoers setup as it wou… --- ## [AWX Openshift pods not starting](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-openshift-pods-not-starting/41301)
**Author:** [@Hussain\_Peera](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hussain_Peera)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-openshift-pods-not-starting/41301 "2025-04-03T05:25:23Z")
We have upgraded the AWX operator from version 2.12.2 to 2.16.1. Since then, I am unable to see the awx-web and awx-task pods in the AWX namespace. please help on fixing this. --- ## [Ansible-navigator to automate tests](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-navigator-to-automate-tests/40274)
**Author:** [@falon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/falon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-navigator-to-automate-tests/40274 "2025-02-17T08:28:58Z")
Hello, I would like to use ansible-navigator to run playbook in EE, in order to test playbooks and collections. I see that ansible-navigator run can run playbooks in EE: it starts the container, it runs the playbook, i… --- ## [Ini\_file destroys all other content](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ini-file-destroys-all-other-content/39794)
**Author:** [@markfaine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/markfaine)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ini-file-destroys-all-other-content/39794 "2025-01-28T21:00:30Z")
I’m trying to use the ini\_file module to add AmbientCapabilties option with three values to a file. It’s worse than just not idempotent, it’s destructive. The first time it works fine but the second time it removes eve… --- ## [Random\_string can't build my password policy](https://forum.ansible.com/t/random-string-cant-build-my-password-policy/39846)
**Author:** [@hoffmann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hoffmann)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/random-string-cant-build-my-password-policy/39846 "2025-01-27T09:28:49Z")
Would it be possible to request a update to community.general.random\_string and include “MaxConsecutiveCharacters” and “MaxInstancesOfAnyCharacter”? rand\_password: "{{ lookup('community.general.random\_string', length=24… --- ## [Community.general.json\_query returns the text "Hello World!"](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-general-json-query-returns-the-text-hello-world/11046)
**Author:** [@spam-n-eggs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/spam-n-eggs)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-general-json-query-returns-the-text-hello-world/11046 "2024-11-26T17:49:39Z")
When running a query on a json data structure, the return value is “Hello World!” Query: - name: Debug the Ethernet Full Results ansible.builtin.debug: var: "{{ ethernet\_details | json\_query(\\"results\[\*\].stdout\_l… --- ## [Maintain Cloudflare records using Ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintain-cloudflare-records-using-ansible/8763)
**Author:** [@Sabrthor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sabrthor)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintain-cloudflare-records-using-ansible/8763 "2024-09-25T14:26:14Z")
Ansible throws HTTP 400 for a valid Cloudflare API Token. I wanted to manage our Cloudflare DNS records through Ansible and as such created a Cloudflare API Token which has DNS edit permissions for a specific DNS Zone. … --- ## [Trying to install community. General unable to install facing error](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trying-to-install-community-general-unable-to-install-facing-error/7536)
**Author:** [@Shivani\_Gupta](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shivani_Gupta)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trying-to-install-community-general-unable-to-install-facing-error/7536 "2024-08-01T14:27:12Z")
I try every method except tarball file which i don’t no how to install in rhel9 … If there is any cmd fle that help me First step I tried is Ansible-galaxy collection install community. General Error: Process insta… --- ## [The Bullhorn #145](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-145/7281)
**Author:** [@Leo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-145/7281 "2024-07-15T15:37:00Z")
This week in Ansible community Issue #145, 2024-07-15 (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 …