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The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community
Issue #10, 2020-09-16

Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible developer community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, please reach out to us at the-bullhorn@redhat.com, or comment on this GitHub issue.
 

KEY DATES

  • 2020-09-15: ansible-2.10.0 rc1 (moved from 10-Sep)
  • 2020-09-17: community IRC meeting (any blockers for release should be proposed and discussed here)
  • 2020-09-22: ansible-2.10 GA release date
 

ANSIBLE 2.10.0 RC1 NOW AVAILABLE

The Ansible Community team announced the availability of Ansible 2.10.0 release candidate 1 on September 15th. This new Ansible package should be a drop-in replacement for Ansible 2.9; the roles and playbooks that you currently use should work out of the box with ansible-2.10.0 rc1. For more information on how to download, test, and report issues, read Toshio Kuratomi’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.

The ansible-2.10.0 prereleases continue to be updated for testing purposes. Ansible 2.10.0 beta 2 was uploaded to pypi last week, and Ansible 2.10.0 rc1 is now available on pypi as mentioned above.

For more release details, please take a look at:  

ANSIBLE-BASE 2.10.1 NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE

The Ansible Base team announced the general release of Ansible 2.10.1 on September 14th. This ansible-base package consists of only the Ansible execution engine, related tools (e.g. ansible-galaxy, ansible-test), and a very small set of built-in plugins, and is also bundled with the larger Ansible distribution. For more information on how to download, test, and report issues, read Rick Elrod’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.
 

ROLE/COLLECTION PUBLISHERS: CHANGES TO ANSIBLE-GALAXY LOGIN

If you use the ansible-galaxy CLI to publish roles or collections to Galaxy, you may care about this. The GitHub API that underlies the ansible-galaxy login command is being removed in November. Without it, users doing role or collection publishing operations via the Galaxy CLI will need to find their Galaxy token interactively in a browser and pass it using a config file (as the ability to generate a token from the CLI will no longer function). We're not sure what people do today or how much this option is used out in the world, so please read and weigh in here in the next few days if you have an opinion.
 

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

The Ansible Podman collection has a new module podman_network for the management of Podman networking.
 

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

The Ansible Community Team is hiring engineers to help with onboarding Ansible contributors. For more info, please see the following job descriptions:  

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

 

ANSIBLE CONTRIBUTOR SUMMIT - PART OF ANSIBLEFEST 2020

Due to overwhelming interest in the AnsibleFest 2020 edition of the Ansible Contributor Summit, we are planning 2 days of program for you, depending on where you are in your contribution journey. These will be held on October 12 and 15, 2020.

Take a look at the wiki page to find out how the two days will be structured, and register via the corresponding links. We look forward to your participation at the Contributor Summit!
 

OPEN SOURCE AUTOMATION DAYS

We will be a part of Open Source Automation Days, which will be an online event from October 19-21, 2020. Check out the speakers and topics, as well as workshops, and get tickets here if you’re interested.
 

ANSIBLE VIRTUAL MEETUPS

The following virtual meetups are being held in the Ansible community over the next month: Note: For these virtual meetups, the links to participate will be visible once you RSVP to attend. If you’re interested in the topics presented, you can join from anywhere in the world as long as the time zone and language works for you!
 

FEEDBACK

Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please send us an email at the-bullhorn@redhat.com.

 

 

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