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The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #34, 2021-09-17 (Past Issues)

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

CONTRIBUTOR SUMMIT & ANSIBLEFEST

The next Ansible Contributor Summit will be on September 28th and October 1st, alongside AnsibleFest 2021. Registration is open! Please register on Eventbrite to stay informed of updates to the event. Note that the AnsibleFest registration is separate from the Contributor Summit.

The first day (Tuesday, 28/9) is aimed at new contributors and people who want to understand what is involved in contributing. Day two (Friday, 1/10) will contain the usual interactive discussions with more technical details.

In addition, we will be running a Hackathon in parallel throughout the week (Tuesday to Friday). This is for anyone with an interest in contributing to Ansible (with a focus on Collections), including those who have never contributed and are unsure of how to get started, existing contributors and maintainers, etc. all are welcome! Resources (people, labs, docs, etc.) will be available to help people through the entire process.

During AnsibleFest, we will have a Community Live Q&A with members of the Ansible Community Team (Wednesday, Sep 29 @ 15:30-16:00 UTC). If you have pressing questions that you'd like us to answer/discuss, please suggest them in this GitHub issue.

ANSIBLE-CORE 2.11.5, ANSIBLE-BASE 2.10.14, AND ANSIBLE 2.9.26 RELEASED

The Ansible Core team announced the maintenance releases of Ansible-Core 2.11.5, Ansible-Base 2.10.14, and Ansible 2.9.26 on September 13th. Follow this link for Matt Martz’s email to the ansible-devel mailing list, to obtain details on what’s new, installation instructions, and schedule for future releases.

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

  • Ansible Collection for ServiceNow ITSM - servicenow.itsm 1.2.0 has been released. Please see changelogs here.
  • Ansible Community Crypto Collection - community.crypto 1.9.3 has been released.
  • Amazon AWS Collection - amazon.aws 2.0.0 has been released with several major changes. Please see the changelog for more info.
  • Amazon AWS Collection - amazon.aws 1.5.1 has also been released.

You can now keep track of the releases of Ansible community projects and collections via the Ansible community RSS feeds.

ANNOUNCING NEW COLLECTION MAINTAINERS

We are happy to announce that the community.general, community.docker, and community.crypto collections have found a new maintainer: Andrew Pantuso. He has done an excellent job there as a code contributor and reviewer.

In addition, the community.kubevirt collection has found new maintainers: Christopher Brown and Martin Nečas.

On behalf of the Ansible Community and the Community Team, we’d like to congratulate them, and say THANK YOU!

LOOKING FOR COLLECTION MAINTAINERS/CONTRIBUTORS

The community.kubevirt collection is looking for more maintainers and contributors. Sounds interesting? Feel free to respond in this issue!

COLLECTION INCLUSION CANDIDATES FOR ANSIBLE 5.0

We have about 3 weeks left for new collections to be included in Ansible 5.0.0. See the inclusion candidates and track their progress in this GitHub issue.

ANSIBLE COMMUNITY STEERING COMMITTEE

Tadej Borovšak has been elected as the chairperson for the Ansible Community Steering Committee. Thank you Tadej for the amazing work you've done (and continue to do) in the Ansible Community, and congratulations!

NEW MATRIX ROOM: ANSIBLE SOCIAL

The Ansible Social matrix room will be a place for welcoming new people/introductions/daily greetings/social chat. It is bridged to #ansible-social channel on Libera Chat. News and announcements are welcome there too. For more information about Ansible Community on Matrix, please take a look at the documentation and FAQ. See you in the Matrix!

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

Luca Berton started a side project called Ansible Pilot: automate your daily use-cases with live demos, playbooks, and fun included! Check it out and share your feedback with him.

If you're interested in provisioning and configuring hosts so that you can deliver complete solutions in a repeatable manner, Paul Armstrong gives a comprehensive overview in his Automating Systems with Foreman, AWX, and FreeIPA article.

ANSIBLE MEETUPS & COMMUNITY EVENTS

The following meetups/events are being held in the Ansible community over the next month:

OPEN SOURCE AUTOMATION DAYS

We will be a part of Open Source Automation Days, which will be an online event from October 4-6, 2021. Check out the agenda, as well as workshops, and get tickets here if you’re interested.

Don't miss Alex Sowitzki's talk on Ansible Receptor: Mesh Your way through Corporate network landscapes!

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

Red Hat is hiring several roles to work on Ansible. Please check the job descriptions in the links and apply!

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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