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A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #41, 2022-01-07 (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 chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix.

Happy New Year to our wonderful Ansible Developer Community! We look forward to collaborating more with all of you in 2022!

KEY DATES

cybette contributed

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES

gundalow shared

We are happy to announce a new Steering Committee member! Brian Scholer (briantist) has been a very active community member for several years. He has contributed to the Ansible project as a developer, reviewer, collection maintainer, documentation contributor; he has helped other contributors and users on IRC / Matrix and GitHub, as well as the Steering Committee make the right decisions. We are happy to get him on board! Our congratulations, Brian, and thank you for your great long-term contribution!

MAJOR NEW RELEASES

Antsibull ↗

Tooling for building various things related to ansible

felixfontein said

antsibull 0.40.0 has been released with a lot of features and bugfixes. A major new feature are responsive RST tables for parameters and return values. Also there's now a changelog.

COLLECTION UPDATES

felixfontein shared

community.docker 2.1.0 has been released with bugfixes and new features, mainly for the community.docker.docker_container_exec module (changelog).

briantist said

community.hashi_vault version 2.2.0 has been released.

felixfontein contributed

community.internal_test_tools 0.6.0 has been released (changelog).

markuman said

community.proxysql 1.3.1 has just been released.

HELP WANTED

samccann shared

Looking for a way to contribute to Ansible? How about starting with one of these easyfix issues? https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aeasyfix

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE!

samccann said

We are looking for collection owners to provide feedback on a new semantic markup proposal for plugin/module docs - https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/53

felixfontein contributed

We are looking for feedback on improving the Ansible documentation by mentioning the plugin type more prominently in some cases. Please take a look here: https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/57

samccann shared

We are looking for feedback on whether we should highlight FQCN for ansible-core built in modules, or use just the short name in our documentation and examples. Please provide your thoughts at https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/58

COMMUNITY UPDATES

dmsimard said

I had a holiday hacking project to stand up the latest version of AWX to find out and write down how to record playbooks with ara and I've finished it sooner than I thought I would, enjoy: https://ara.recordsansible.org/blog/2021/12/23/recording-ansible-playbooks-from-awx-with-ara/

cybette contributed

How to automate the Vulnerability Scanner/Detector for Log4Shell (CVE-2021–44228) using Ansible? Check out this guide thanks to Luca Berton.

Ansible Playbook code available (via Github, Galaxy) to download the detector script (v1.2 released 2021-12-20), validate GPG signature, install dependencies, create work directory, run the detector with the right options and get the results.

COMMUNITY EVENTS/MEETUPS

cybette shared

Join us at the open source community conference, DevConf.CZ 2022 - virtual event, for an Ansible Community Meetup on Friday Jan-28 and a session on What’s New & Ahead in the Ansible Community on Saturday Jan-29.

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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