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The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community
Issue #11, 2020-09-30

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

 

ANSIBLE 2.10.0 NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE

The Ansible Community team announced the general availability of Ansible 2.10.0 on September 22nd! 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. For more information on what’s new, how to get it, plus caveats and known bugs, read Toshio Kuratomi’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.
 

ANSIBLE-BASE 2.10.2 RC1 NOW AVAILABLE

The Ansible Base team announced a release candidate of Ansible 2.10.2 on September 28th. 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.
 

ANSIBLE 2.9.14 RC1 AND 2.8.16 RC1 AVAILABLE

The Ansible Core team announced the availability of Ansible 2.9.14 rc1 and Ansible 2.8.16 rc1 on September 28th, both of which are maintenance releases. Follow this link for Rick Elrod’s email to the ansible-devel mailing list, to obtain details on what’s new, installation instructions, and links to the full changelogs.
 

CHANGES IMPACTING COLLECTION CONTRIBUTORS AND MAINTAINERS

Follow this GitHub issue to track changes that Collection maintainers and contributors should be aware of.
 

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!
 

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

Foreman collection 1.3.0 has been released. Check out what's new, how to obtain it, and more in this blog post by Evgeni Golov.
 

ANSIBLE COMMUNITY STATS UPDATE

Following productive discussions in recent community meetings (see the minutes around #539 (comment)), Greg Sutcliffe has put together an alpha version of a Collections Dashboard. Eventually it will have summary stats across our community, but for now you can query a given collection and get some useful data.

Greg will be pre-recording a talk on this for the upcoming Contributor Summit, but for now you can play with it here and the source code (along with the list of collections to index) is here. Please do raise issues & feature requests!


 

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

 

NETDEVOPS SURVEY 2020 NOW OPEN

The NetDevOps Survey 2020 is now live, and looking for respondents! The goal of this survey is to collect information to understand how network operators and engineers are using automation to operate their network today. The survey has been designed to be vendor neutral, collaborative, and community-focused. All network professionals are welcome to participate in the survey, please complete the survey here October 23.
 

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.
 

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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