The Bullhorn #218

dbrennand
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:38:54 +0000
Newsletter

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #218, 2026-02-19 (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 February, so don’t miss out

View the full agenda when the session catalog launches in March 2026.

General news updates

CfgMgmtCamp 2026 Overview

dbrennand shared

CfgMgmtCamp returned to Ghent, Belgium, bringing together system administrators, SREs, and open source enthusiasts for three days of knowledge sharing and collaboration focused on infrastructure automation and related technology. As part of the FOSDEM fringe, this conference is an opportunity for developers, maintainers, users, and all types of contributors to come together. Each year the Ansible community has a strong representation. 2026 was no exception, featuring two tracks with 20 sessions dedicated to Ansible automation with a total of 35 sessions related to Ansible across all sessions. Over two days of talks, there were some brilliant speakers sharing their ideas and experiences on a wide range of topics.

On Wednesday, the final day at CfgMgmtCamp, we held an engaging and productive Contributor Summit. Folks from the Ansible Community and Partner Engineering team at Red Hat gave an overview of our mission, highlighted goals for the year ahead, and gathered direct feedback from the Ansible community. There was also an excellent roundtable-type discussion between Felix Fontein and Matt Davis that gave a really insightful view into the dynamic between community developers and Red Hat engineers. Without a doubt it was a useful session for everyone involved. Gundalow and Anwesha Das also ended the morning session by exchanging some ideas with the community to improve the Bullhorn strategy as well as meetups.

Everyone had a great time and we ended our Contributor Summit with a walking tour through the heart of Ghent, guided by Don Naro. It was a good chance to spend time outdoors and get to know each other better in person. Despite being so tired after many days of conferences, it was a refreshing way to spend the afternoon and gave us an energizing way to foster longer-term connections within the Ansible community.

Thanks to everyone who traveled to Ghent to join us at CfgMgmtCamp. We look forward to seeing you again next year. If you weren’t able to join us this year, we hope to see you in 2027.

Ansible Talks

Content Development and Collection Maintenance

Using antsibull-nox to test your Ansible collection

Behind The Scene: How We Ship Ansible Network Collections

ansible-docsmith - ultimate tool to document ansible roles

Debugging Playbooks Made Easy

Building CI/CD Pipelines for your Ansible code

AI and Automation

Asking a local LLM about my Ansible playbooks because why not

Writing, running, and testing awesome Ansible content with natural language and AI - powered by Ansible’s MCP server

Reliable Network Backups & Restore (AI/ML Diff Severity)

IT Architecture

Composing systems with Ansible, Podman, and bootc

Building an Infrastructure Automation Platform using Platform Engineering

Building a self-contained, zero-dependency deployment with Ansible

The Day Two Problem: Examining Decades of Infrastructure Automation Evolution

Integration and Tooling

Reliable Network Backups & Restore (AI/ML Diff Severity)

Use Best-in-Class Tools for End-to-End Automation

Uyuni: connecting two distinct worlds of Salt and Ansible

Ansible Core 2.19

A Love Letter to Ansible Core 2.19

Don’t Fear the Jinja - Beyond the Handlebars with Ansible

Ansible Style Guide and guidelines for compatibility with newer versions of Ansible community package/ansible-core (Ansible 12/ansible-core 2.19 and above)

Ansible Ecosystem

Ansible for Beginners: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Learned the Hard Way

OpenTofu Builds It, Ansible Configures It: Using the Right Tool for the Right Job

Upgrading Fedora’s Monitoring - a real Tech Debt story - Greg Sutcliffe

Growing a startup using Ansible - Johan Van de Wauw

How automation games can make us better engineers

Classic Infrastructures Command & Control

A Pkl companion tool to bind tasks to configuration data

Client tooling to integrate with Pulp

The Director’s Cut: A new role for Ansible in Foreman

Introducing Pabawi. Puppet Ansible Bolt Awesome Web Interface

From ‘undefined’ to ‘I Told You So’ - TypeScript for the Foreman Frontend

Automating Config Deployment with NetBox

Community and Contributor Summit

Ansible - State of the Community

How we opened up Ansible’s documentation infrastructure to the community

Ansible Community & Partner Engineering updates

Open Discussion: Good, bad and ugly

Bullhorn, Meetup, Release Calendar & Social Media

The exploitation paradox in open source

Video Content and Forum Discussions

All Ansible talks on YouTube

All CfgMgmtCamp Forum Posts

CfgMgmtCamp 2026 Event Post

Major new releases

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.

awx.awx Collection Removal Vote

mariolenz said

The awx.awx collection currently does not align with the standards for the community package. So there is now a vote on removing it from Ansible 14.

We sincerely hope that the current work on the collection will be successful and we can add it again some time in the future.

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

Collection updates

community.mysql Release

andersson007_ said

The community.mysql collection version 4.1.0 has been released!

amazon.aws Release

abuzachis said

amazon.aws 11.1.0 has been released including:

1. support for indirect node counts across various EC2, RDS, and S3 resources.

2. a new amazon.aws.ec2_instance_type_info module to support EC2 instance types.

3. the aws_cloudtrail and aws_sqs_queue Event Source plugins have been ported from the ansible.eda collection; please note that this introduces aiobotocore >= 2.14.0 as a new dependency for this collection.

4. several bugfixes are included for the elb_application_lb and s3_object modules.

For full details, check out the changelog.

community.aws Release

Mandar Kulkarni contributed

The community.aws collection version 11.0.0 has been released!

This major release updates the botocore and boto3 dependencies to version 1.35.0 and bumps awscli to version 1.34.0, removes support for Python versions earlier than 3.8. Please check out the changelog for more information!

Certified Collections Updates

dbrennand shared

Certified collections updated this week:

hitachivantara.vspone_block:4.6.0

cisco.catalystcenter:2.3.1

cisco.dnac:6.48.0

ibm.ibm_zosmf:1.6.0

arista.eos:12.0.1

zscaler.zpacloud:2.1.1

manageengine.sdp_cloud:1.0.0

cisco.ios:11.3.0

arista.avd:5.7.3

zscaler.ziacloud:2.1.0

ansible.hub:1.0.4

fortinet.fortiflexvm:2.3.1

purestorage.flasharray:1.42.0

ansible.eda:2.11.0

Ansible Podman Collection Update

sshnaidm contributed

The Ansible Podman collection has been updated with two new modules, podman_quadlet and podman_quadlet_info, for managing Podman Quadlets. The project is transitioning into maintenance mode and is looking for new maintainers.

community.beszel Release

dbrennand contributed

The community.beszel collection released version 0.7.0 with updates to the agent role and support to persist the universal token. See the changelog for more details.

community.aws Release

Hannah DeFazio shared

The community.aws collection version 10.1.0 has been released!

This release includes several minor improvements and bugfixes, deprecation notices for legacy module aliases, cloudfront_distribution return values, and WAF Classic modules, in addition to documentation updates. Please check out the changelog for more information!

kubernetes.core Release

Bianca Henderson contributed

The kubernetes.core collection version 5.4.2 has been released!

This release includes bugfixes such as replacing the passing of warnings to exit_json with AnsibleModule.warn as well as a security update for selectively redacting sensitive information from kubeconfig.

Please see the changelog for more info.

kubernetes.core Release

Bianca Henderson shared

The kubernetes.core collection version 6.3.0 has been released!

This release includes bugfixes such as implementing idempotency for the helm_pull module as well as a security update for selectively redacting sensitive information from kubeconfig.

Please see the changelog for more info.

Help wanted

Ansible Community Problems Discussion

Felix Fontein contributed

I split up my recent post on Problems in the Ansible world and how to improve on them into several forum posts, one per section, and added some information from my discussion with @nitzmahone at CfgMgmtCamp 2026. The overview post (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (0/12): Problems in the Ansible world and how to improve on them) has some general remarks and contains links to the other posts. The individual posts are here:

As a user:

Supported Python versions, or: supporting older Operating Systems (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (1/12): Supported Python versions, or: supporting older Operating Systems)

Big changes don’t seem to be properly tested (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (2/12): Big changes don't seem to be properly tested)

Big breaking changes come with no explanation of why they are happening (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (3/12): Big breaking changes come with no explanation of why they are happening)

Speaking about deprecations (and warnings in general) (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (4/12): Speaking about deprecations (and warnings in general))

Supported ansible-core versions when installing collections (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (5/12): Supported ansible-core versions when installing collections)

Collection documentation on Ansible Galaxy is incomplete and partially confusing (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (6/12): Collection documentation on Ansible Galaxy is incomplete and partially confusing)

As a collection maintainer and developer:

Collection testing is still a mess (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (7/12): Collection testing is still a mess)

Instant Ansible-test target updates without announcements (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (8/12): Instant Ansible-test target updates without announcements)

Deprecations and ansible-test (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (9/12): Deprecations and ansible-test)

Publishing community collections, and Zuul (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (10/12): Publishing community collections, and Zuul)

Features are removed without public discussion or known good reason (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (11/12): Features are removed without public discussion or known good reason)

Deprecation of behavior before providing alternatives (CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (12/12): Deprecation of behavior before providing alternatives)

Community events and meetups

Upcoming Community Events

dbrennand said

2026-02-19, Ansible Minneapolis Meetup - Noel Miller - Deploying and managing IDM with Infrastructure as Code

2026-02-26, AWS Community Meeting

2026-03-05, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month

2026-03-10, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process

2026-03-12, Ansible London - Thursday 12th March 2026

Every Tuesday @11AM ET, Documentation Working Group

Every Thursday @13:00 UTC, Network Working Group

Shift Left Security Webinar

steampunks said

Hi all, we’re organizing a live webinar on February 19 at 3 PM CET, where we’ll show how to embed security in the Ansible development lifecycle using a practical shift left approach. If you’re facing challenges with securing your Ansible automation, this session might provide valuable insights. Check it out: Shift left and secure: How to embed security in the Ansible development lifecycle | XLAB Steampunk

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!

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