# \#mindshare **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/tag/mindshare/24.md [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) --- ## [Opinion poll: Tell us what you want to hear at CfgMgmtCamp 2027](https://forum.ansible.com/t/opinion-poll-tell-us-what-you-want-to-hear-at-cfgmgmtcamp-2027/46189)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/opinion-poll-tell-us-what-you-want-to-hear-at-cfgmgmtcamp-2027/46189 "2026-08-27T18:49:27Z")
Hello everyone! As you might have noticed the CFP for CfgMgmtCamp 2027 is now open. The team that maintains several of the cloud related collections, code-named team Nebula, is considering several different submissions … --- ## [Conventional Commits in Collections](https://forum.ansible.com/t/conventional-commits-in-collections/46190)
**Author:** [@chynasan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/chynasan)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/conventional-commits-in-collections/46190 "2026-08-25T18:25:48Z")
Howdy everyone! :cowboy\_hat\_face: The Red Hat team that works on many of the cloud content collections has been discussing the adoption of the conventional commits format. We wanted to bring this to the attention of the… --- ## [Proposal: New repo for Ansible AI collaboration](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-new-repo-for-ansible-ai-collaboration/45575)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-new-repo-for-ansible-ai-collaboration/45575 "2026-04-09T19:56:38Z")
Hi folks I’ve been thinking a bit about how we can better collaborate and build a community around the various AI projects that people are working on. Currently I see some great ideas, though it’s isolated pockets, and… --- ## [Ansible community roadmap 2026](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-roadmap-2026/45522)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-roadmap-2026/45522 "2026-05-01T07:36:10Z")
Hi everyone, Since the Contributor Summit at CfgMgmtCamp we’ve been working on defining our roadmap for 2026. We’ve gone through all our notes and have put together some high-level descriptions of what we’d like to achi… --- ## [EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and what it means for Ansible?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-and-what-it-means-for-ansible/45716)
**Author:** [@anwesha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anwesha)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-and-what-it-means-for-ansible/45716 "2026-04-21T11:04:06Z")
Hello everyone, We are reaching out to share an important update regarding the evolving regulatory landscape in Europe and how it impacts the Ansible ecosystem. The European Union has introduced the Cyber Resilience Act… --- ## [How AI can help the Ansible Community & Development](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-ai-can-help-the-ansible-community-development/44460)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2026, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-ai-can-help-the-ansible-community-development/44460 "2026-04-09T07:13:02Z")
Hi folks, AI successes in the Ansible Community What examples have we seen so far in across out ecosystem (GitHub, Forum, Reddit, etc) where someone has use an AI related tool to support their contribution. Where could… --- ## [Announcing the awx-tui](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-the-awx-tui/45591)
**Author:** [@tyraziel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tyraziel)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-the-awx-tui/45591 "2026-04-03T15:02:47Z")
Hello everyone, I’m Andrew, a software engineer on the Ansible engineering team at Red Hat. I’ve been working on a side project that I’m excited to share with the community. What is awx-tui? awx-tui is a text-based Com… --- ## [Proposing a New "Red Hat Partners" Category for the Ansible Forum](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposing-a-new-red-hat-partners-category-for-the-ansible-forum/45366)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2026, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposing-a-new-red-hat-partners-category-for-the-ansible-forum/45366 "2026-03-20T10:14:45Z")
Hi everyone, I’d like to propose a new category on the Ansible forum and get feedback from the community. During the Contributor Summit session in Ghent, I shared an update about the Community and Partner Engineering t… --- ## [CfgMgmtCamp 2026](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cfgmgmtcamp-2026/44250)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cfgmgmtcamp-2026/44250 "2026-02-16T11:50:44Z")
CfgMgmtCamp 2026 is taking place in Ghent, Belgium. Monday 2nd Feb 2026: Talks Tuesday 3rd Feb 2026: Talks Wednesday 4th Feb 2026: Workshops including Ansible Contributor Summit & Ansible Labs Forum Posts CfgMgmtC… --- ## [GitHub repo for Slides (for Meetups)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/github-repo-for-slides-for-meetups/45281)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/github-repo-for-slides-for-meetups/45281 "2026-02-08T18:57:02Z")
During CfgMgmtCamp 2026 we recognized that we finding speakers and speakers creating presentations takes times, and that as a global community we often end up creating similar presentations. We discussed and thought it … --- ## [Improving Ansible Meetups](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improving-ansible-meetups/43491)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2026, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improving-ansible-meetups/43491 "2026-02-06T09:56:18Z")
Hi folks, It’s been a long time since we talked about Ansible Meetups, so I thought we should fix that. Some of the ideas head follow on from the great discussions we have around reducing fragmentation in the Ansible Co… --- ## [Upcoming changes to AWX Operator installation methods](https://forum.ansible.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-awx-operator-installation-methods/7598)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-awx-operator-installation-methods/7598 "2025-04-17T09:41:57Z")
Hi everyone, In a couple of recent posts, we’ve talked about Streamlining AWX Releases as well as Refactoring AWX into a Pluggable Services-Oriented Architecture. Now we’d like to announce plans from Red Hat engineering… --- ## [AWX modernization: Exploring the OpenAPI specification in AWX community documentation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-modernization-exploring-the-openapi-specification-in-awx-community-documentation/45198)
**Author:** [@tvo318](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tvo318)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2026, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-modernization-exploring-the-openapi-specification-in-awx-community-documentation/45198 "2026-01-28T09:57:21Z")
Hi everyone, I want to follow up on the previous post about the AWX modernization effort with some progress on the developer documentation front. We’ve just merged pull request (PR) #16221 to render the OpenAPI specifi… --- ## [Refactoring AWX into a Pluggable, Service-Oriented Architecture](https://forum.ansible.com/t/refactoring-awx-into-a-pluggable-service-oriented-architecture/7404)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/refactoring-awx-into-a-pluggable-service-oriented-architecture/7404 "2026-01-05T22:38:21Z")
Hi folks, In our previous post, we discussed the upcoming changes we’re making to the AWX project. Today, we’d like to dive deeper into one of the most significant changes: refactoring AWX into a pluggable, service-orie… --- ## [Return documentation fragments, the way forward](https://forum.ansible.com/t/return-documentation-fragments-the-way-forward/44422)
**Author:** [@bcoca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bcoca)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/return-documentation-fragments-the-way-forward/44422 "2025-12-15T17:48:45Z")
For ansible-core 2.20 we added the ability for modules to use ‘fragments’ to document ‘return’ documentation, something we’ve been able to do for a long time for ‘options’. add fragments to return by bcoca · Pull Request… --- ## [We’re moving to Read The Docs](https://forum.ansible.com/t/we-re-moving-to-read-the-docs/43519)
**Author:** [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/we-re-moving-to-read-the-docs/43519 "2025-11-10T14:42:03Z")
Hi everyone! The Ansible community team at Red Hat is excited to announce that we plan to migrate the docs.ansible.com subdomain to Read The Docs hosting. This post explains our motivation and outlines our plan. Before … --- ## [Streamlining AWX Releases](https://forum.ansible.com/t/streamlining-awx-releases/6894)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/streamlining-awx-releases/6894 "2025-10-07T17:23:41Z")
Hi folks, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m John “Gundalow” Barker and have been part of the Ansible team at Red Hat for over 8 years. I am an engineering manager and currently responsible for the Ansible engineer… --- ## [Improving The Bullhorn newsletter](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improving-the-bullhorn-newsletter/44546)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improving-the-bullhorn-newsletter/44546 "2025-10-08T06:41:40Z")
Hi folks, I’m copying the ideas for improvement from Celebrating 200 editions of the Ansible Bullhorn! into this separate thread so we can discuss ideas. Where does the Bullhorn go from here? Looking ahead at the next … --- ## [2.19.1 release schedule update](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-19-1-release-schedule-update/44185)
**Author:** [@nitzmahone](https://forum.ansible.com/u/nitzmahone)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-19-1-release-schedule-update/44185 "2025-07-31T19:47:23Z")
Since 2.19.0 shipped outside the normal 4-week maintenance release cycle used for the other stable branches, the core team had originally planned to make 2.19.1 a short-cycle release to resync its release dates. Given th… --- ## [Proposal: Closing the Ansible Network Slack instance](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-closing-the-ansible-network-slack-instance/43993)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-closing-the-ansible-network-slack-instance/43993 "2025-07-30T18:57:47Z")
Hi folks Following on from Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms, we are considering what to do with the Ansible Network Slack instance (which you’ve likely never heard of). As the Forum has critical ma… --- ## [Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-consolidating-ansible-discussion-platforms/6812)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-consolidating-ansible-discussion-platforms/6812 "2025-07-22T17:43:50Z")
Hi folks, We’ve been thinking for a while about the various communication channels that exist for the wider Ansible Community. We want to establish The Forum as the official & default discussion platform, as it has crit… --- ## [Transitioning authentication and authorization (RBAC) to the new AWX architecture](https://forum.ansible.com/t/transitioning-authentication-and-authorization-rbac-to-the-new-awx-architecture/8602)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/transitioning-authentication-and-authorization-rbac-to-the-new-awx-architecture/8602 "2025-02-04T14:33:46Z")
Hi everyone We’re continuing our journey toward a pluggable, services-oriented architecture for AWX and want to make you aware of changes that Red Hat engineering teams plan to make with external authentication and Role… --- ## [Bridging the Ansible UX Gap: From Laptop Playbooks to Enterprise Automation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bridging-the-ansible-ux-gap-from-laptop-playbooks-to-enterprise-automation/39111)
**Author:** [@termlen0](https://forum.ansible.com/u/termlen0)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bridging-the-ansible-ux-gap-from-laptop-playbooks-to-enterprise-automation/39111 "2024-12-12T17:22:44Z")
Bridging the Ansible UX Gap: From Laptop Playbooks to Enterprise Automation When developers first dive into Ansible, it’s often love at first playbook. Automating small tasks directly from a laptop feels empowering and a… --- ## [AWX UI and credential types transitioning to the new pluggable architecture](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ui-and-credential-types-transitioning-to-the-new-pluggable-architecture/8027)
**Author:** [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ui-and-credential-types-transitioning-to-the-new-pluggable-architecture/8027 "2024-09-18T18:55:29Z")
Hi folks, Welcome to the next post in our ongoing discussion around changes to modernize AWX. In the previous post, we talked about removing the AWX Operator from OperatorHub.io and relocating the Helm chart for the AWX… --- ## [Reducing fragmentation: Add Communication section emphasizing Forum to collections READMEs in ansible-collections org](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reducing-fragmentation-add-communication-section-emphasizing-forum-to-collections-readmes-in-ansible-collections-org/7242)
**Author:** [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reducing-fragmentation-add-communication-section-emphasizing-forum-to-collections-readmes-in-ansible-collections-org/7242 "2024-07-12T13:31:55Z")
As a part of reducing fragmentation and consolidating Ansible discussion platforms effort, we’d like to prioritize the Forum across the collections under the ansible-collections organization. A large portion of the coll… --- ## [Teams: community building blocks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/teams-community-building-blocks/182)
**Author:** [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/teams-community-building-blocks/182 "2024-01-03T09:27:39Z")
Hi the community and @steeringcommittee! Teams are building blocks for our community and basic entities of belonging. That’s why it’s important to have a good implementation of the team concept. Important to mention th… --- ## [Replacing news-for-maintainers](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133)
**Author:** [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133 "2023-12-12T09:38:36Z")
Currently, we have Issues · ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers · GitHub to allow any community member to post an announcement for collection maintainers. I would like to move this to Discourse sooner or later. Disc… --- ## [Wireframes for the new Ansible.com community-powered website](https://forum.ansible.com/t/wireframes-for-the-new-ansible-com-community-powered-website/90)
**Author:** [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/wireframes-for-the-new-ansible-com-community-powered-website/90 "2023-09-19T21:06:26Z")
While the summer has been somewhat focussed on the forum, the Website Working Group has been busy :wrench:! We’ve been going back-and-forth- over the wireframes that will be used to build the site in the next couple of m… --- ## [Ansible Playbooks vs Job Templates in AWX / Automation Controller](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbooks-vs-job-templates-in-awx-automation-controller/570)
**Author:** [@IPvSean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/IPvSean)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbooks-vs-job-templates-in-awx-automation-controller/570 "2023-09-12T14:36:38Z")
Many folks have never played with AWX or Automation Controller and don’t understand what the difference is between your normal CLI experience of an Ansible Playbook and how that compares to a Job Template, which is a uni… --- ## [\[Q\] Who owns/runs this website?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-who-owns-runs-this-website/387)
**Author:** [@bahmanm](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bahmanm)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-who-owns-runs-this-website/387 "2023-09-12T10:46:46Z")
:wave: I’ve got a couple of questions RE the forums website and how it operates. Can you please elaborate a bit on the answers to my rather blunt questions? (1) Is this a community-driven community-owned website? Do … [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/mindshare/24.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=mindshare)