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A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #61, 2022-06-02 (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, you're welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!

KEY DATES ⏱️

cybette contributed

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️

ompragash shared

We are happy to announce that we've issued the first set of "Ansible Badges"!🕺🏻🎉

Yes, you heard us right!

As we announced during the last Contributor Summit, we issued badges to Meetup Organizers and Speakers, and we're looking forward to issuing badges for GitHub contributions, completing Instruqt challenges, and more. To know more about "Ansible Badges", check out ansible-community/ansible-badges!

We love to hear your feedback❤️ Click here and submit!

samccann said

Need help writing or editing your collection docs? We have community writers ready to help review docs PRs and provide basic help using the Edit on GitHub feature. These writers can provide grammar and readability advice for your collection docs or other Ansible community project docs. Ping us in the #docs matrix/irc channels to get details on how we can help, and see the project tracking board here.

ompragash shared

Ansible 6 Beta 2 is out for testing!🎉

For more details about the changelog, installation, and included collections click here.

If you face issues during installation, reach out to us in #ansible-packaging Matrix room or IRC channel.

On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you, and happy automating!

MAJOR NEW RELEASES 🏆️

John Westcott contributed

We're happy to announce that AWX version 21.1.0 is now available!

We're happy to announce that AWX Operator version 0.22.0 is now available!

DevTools ↗ ⛏️

Projects to make it easier to write and test Ansible Content. Includes VScode extension, language server, ansible-lint, molecule, ansible-navigator and potentially other development goodies. To see what's planned, and how you can help checkout the foundation-devtools project board.

ssbarnea said

Molecule v4 pre-release is out and it contains more than 20 notable bugfixes and features.

Antsibull ↗ 🐂

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

felixfontein contributed

antsibull 0.46.0 has been released (changelog) with improvements for the release role, release building, and changelog generation.

COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄

Qalthos contributed

There have been a few networking releases this week: * ansible.netcommon 3.0.1 has been released with bugfixes (changelog) * arista.eos 5.0.1 has been released with bugfixes (changelog) * cisco.ios 3.1.0 has been released with new features (changelog) * vyos.vyos 3.0.1 has been released with bugfixes (changelog)

andersson007_ shared

The community.mysql collection versions 1.4.7, 2.3.8 and 3.3.0 have been released. Special thanks to betanummeric, rsicart, hubiongithub, moledzki and our WG leader bmalynovytch!

abuzachis said

amazon.aws 3.3.0 has been released with some new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).

jatorcasso contributed

amazon.aws 2.3.0 has been released with bug-fixes (see changelog for details).

markuman shared

community.aws 3.3.0 and 2.5.0 have been released.

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️

mariolenz said

There's a new vote open about adding an ansible-community command to show the version of the community package that's installed. This would be independent from how people have installed the community package (pip, rpm, dpkg...). Please vote by June 7, 2022!

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING 💰️

gundalow said

Principal Software Engineer (Controller)

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to work on Controller, which is the downstream of AWX. This is the main component of what was previously called Ansible Tower.

In this role, you’ll be part of the Controller team whose work powers the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and enables customers to centralize and control their IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, and more. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll be working with engineers at a variety of experience levels, developing each other’s skills, trusting in each other’s strengths, and supporting one another as you deliver on team commitments.

  • Write and maintain high quality code as a member of a team, leading best practice usage by example
  • Lead engineers in building implementations of new designs
  • Develop and mature habits in following engineering best practices
  • Work closely with lead architects and product managers to ensure features and fixes meet desired use-cases
  • Write unit and integration tests as well as understand debugging software
  • Actively participate in code reviews with the team
  • Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure that builds are tested correctly
  • Submit patches for bug fixes to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as well as the open source community; review patches from other community members
  • Mentor other engineers; lead them in delivering quality software

If this sounds like you, please apply via jobs.redhat.com.

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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