The Bullhorn - Issue #215

anwesha
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:27:49 +0000
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This week in Ansible Community

Issue #215, 2026-01-16 (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!

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_description when 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.cloudmanager an 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 with ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.cloudmanager even 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, botocore and boto3 versions have been bumped to 1.35.0 and awscli version 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 the io2 storage 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!