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A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #89, 2023-01-28 (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 shared

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️

Ansible Contributor Summit 2023.02 is in less than 2 weeks! If you are planning to attend in person, please include Workshop/Fringe day when you register for CfgMgmtCamp and select "Ansible Contributor Summit" as the add-on. For those planning to join virtually, watch this space next week for info on how to participate.

MAJOR NEW RELEASES 🏆

AWX Project ↗

AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible.

sfoster contributed

We're happy to announce that AWX version 21.11.0 is now available! We're happy to announce that AWX Operator version 1.1.4 is now available!

PROJECT UPDATES 🛠️

AWX Project ↗

AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible.

relrod said

awx-ee images are now being tagged with their respective AWX releases (e.g. there is now a quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:21.11.0 for the current AWX release). You can of course continue using latest if you prefer, but these version tags are meant to provide a stable image version which represents the current state of awx-ee at the time of an AWX release. Please try it out and let us know in the Ansible AWX Matrix channel if you have any feedback or questions!

relrod said

We are looking to upgrade our default awx-ee image to CentOS Stream 9 in the near future. We have an image built with that as a base, pushed to quay at quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:stream9-pre - Please test it out! We welcome any feedback in the Ansible AWX Matrix channel or as an issue on the ansible/awx-ee repository.

COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄

Simon Dodsley said

purestorage.pure1 1.1.0 (changelog) has been released.

markuman said

community.aws 5.2.0 and 4.5.0 has been released.

felixfontein contributed

community.hrobot 1.7.0 (changelog) has been released with a new module for managing a vSwitch.

Sean Sullivan contributed

The infra collections have had recent updates: * infra.ah_configuration 1.1.0 Automation hub and galaxy_ng configuration. Majorly improved testing and as a result of fixes all modules and roles work on the last 3 versions of galaxy_ng and Automation Hub. * infra.controller_configuration 2.2.5 Various fixes and additions and improvements to collection, including methods to export configuration files from controller to be used by the collection. * infra.ee_utilities 2.0.6 Updated several bugs and add ability to use types in collection requirements for building execution environments

resmo contributed

vultr.cloud 1.7.0 (changelog) has been released introducing snapshot support.

mariolenz contributed

The community.google collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. See the removal process for details on how this works.

Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install community.google even when it has been removed from Ansible.

mariolenz said

The community.skydive collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. See the removal process for details on how this works.

Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install community.skydive even when it has been removed from Ansible.

HELP WANTED 🙏

samccann contributed

Looking to help out in Ansible but not sure where to start? Take a look at some easyfix or good first issues: * across multiple collections * for all other Ansible projects

andersson007_ contributed

Here are a couple of ideas for our contributors on how to get involved in project/package support and governance: * Become a project maintainer (collection oriented). * Become a Steering Committee member (it's not limited by any number).

andersson007_ contributed

The following collection inclusion requests are waiting for your review:

See the process description to learn how to do it.

If you have any questions, just ping andersson007 on Matrix in the #community:ansible.com room or on Libera.Chat IRC in the #ansible-community channel or directly.

Please help the community extend the Ansible package!

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️

Don Naro shared

As a next step on the path to a new and improved Ansible docsite we want to hear from the community! We've narrowed down a set of key personas that we plan to use to create better entry points to Ansible documentation. The goal is to help community users find docs in a way that fully supports their automation journey. Please add your thoughts in this community topic or comment directly on the personas here.

COMMUNITY UPDATES 👂️

steampunks said

Our team did an experiment to find out how much time you can actually save if you use Steampunk Spotter for Ansible upgrade compared to doing it manually.

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅

ompragash shared

📣 We are excited to announce the upcoming Ansible Community Day in India!

Join us in-person for a day of presentations, workshops, and networking with other Ansible enthusiasts. Learn about the latest developments in Ansible and how it can help you automate your IT infrastructure. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with the Ansible community and take your skills to the next level.

Register now on meetup.com. If you have an interesting Ansible use case or experience you would like to share, submit your talk proposal here.

🗓 SAT, FEB 25, 2023, 9:30 AM IST 📍 Red Hat India Private Limited, Magarpatta Inner Circle · Pune, Maharashtra

cybette said

There are several community meetups coming up! * Ansible Singapore on Jan 31 @ 6:30 PM SST * Ansible NOVA on Feb 9 @ 6:00 PM EST * Ansible Zürich on Feb 28 @ 5:00 PM CET * Ansible München also on Feb 28 @ 6:00PM CET

Check out the respective event pages for details and RSVP!

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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