The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community

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.

ANSIBLE 2.10.0 BETA 1 NOW AVAILABLE

The Ansible Community team announced the availability of Ansible 2.10.0 beta 1 on September 1st. 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 beta1. For more information on how to download, test, and report issues, read Toshio Kuratomi’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.

ANSIBLE-BASE 2.10.1 RC2 NOW AVAILABLE

The Ansible Base team announced a release candidate of Ansible 2.10.1 on August 31st. 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 2.9.13 AND 2.8.15 RELEASED

The Ansible Core team announced the availability of Ansible 2.9.13 and Ansible 2.8.15 on August 31st, 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.

COLLECTION OWNERS: CHANGELOGS FOR ANSIBLE 2.10

Reminder for collection owners: please update your collections with appropriate changelogs by Monday, September 7. See Generating Changelogs for a collection for details on using the Ansible-provided tool. You can also link directly to your own changelogs or release notes by adding the link to an issue here by that same date.

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

vmware.vmware_rest collection 0.1.0 has been released. It's a new VMware collection that is built on top of the vSphere REST API. The modules focus on guest management and can be mixed with the modules from community.vmware collection.

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

The Ansible Community Team is hiring engineers to help with onboarding Ansible contributors. For more info, please see the following job descriptions:

The Ansible Documentation Team is hiring a technical writer. The job is listed in Raleigh, NC, but we will consider remote applicants. If you're interested or have any questions, reach out to us on the #ansible-docs channel on freenode IRC. We've had a lot of applicants already, so act fast!

Technical Writer - Ansible Project - US

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

Pulp Ansible 0.2.0 is Generally Available by Melanie Corr (Pulp project)
CI of the Ansible modules for VMware: a retrospective by Gonéri Le Bouder
User survey: Are you using ARA with Ansible? What is your use case? Please comment on the survey issue!

ANSIBLEFEST VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE 2020

This year’s AnsibleFest will be a virtual experience! Find out the latest details about the event in this blog post, and register here. We are also having our Ansible Contributor Summit alongside AnsibleFest. More details will be shared soon!

ANSIBLE VIRTUAL MEETUPS

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

Ansible Buenos Aires - Code4ndreani: Ansible 101
- Wed, Sep 2 · 6:00 PM GMT-3
Ansible Melbourne September Meetup: Ansible and REST API's
- Wed, Sep 9 · 1:00 AM GMT+10
Ansible London [virtual] meetup – 10th Sept
- Thu, Sep 10 · 5:45 PM GMT+1

Note: For these virtual meetups, the links to participate will be visible once you RSVP to attend. If you’re interested in the topics presented, you can join from anywhere in the world as long as the time zone and language works for you!

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.