Bullhorn #7

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.
 

ANSIBLE 2.10.0 ALPHA 6 NOW AVAILABLE

The Ansible Community team announced the availability of Ansible 2.10.0 Alpha 6 on July 28th. 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 alpha6. For more information on how to download, test, and report issues, read Toshio Kuratomi’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.
 

ANSIBLE-BASE 2.10.0 RELEASE CANDIDATE 3 NOW AVAILABLE

The Ansible Base team announced the pre-release availability of Ansible 2.10.0 RC 3 on July 24th. 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.
 

COLLECTION MODULE DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE NOW

After significant months of effort, we have now restored the module-level documentation on docs.ansible.com! This effort required coordination between the Ansible docs team and the community team and developers to pull the module documentation from the collections on Galaxy and publish them on our docsite again. For more information, read Sandra McCann’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.
 

ANSIBLE STATS UPDATE

As promised in his recent tweet, Greg Sutcliffe has gone into more detail on what the bubble plot from the last issue represents, answering many questions about the details of the plot, and examining the possible uses of such graphics.
 

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

• Using Ansible Molecule to test roles in monorepos
• Pulp Squeezer - an Ansible collection to manage Pulp
• Building and Publishing Documentation for Ansible Collections
• Building Documentation for Collections Using Antsibull

 

ANSIBLE VIRTUAL MEETUPS

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

Ansible NOVA August Session
Wed, Aug 12 · 4:00 PM EDT
https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-NOVA/events/271964842/

Ansible New Zealand: building stateless self configuring Ansible Clusters
Thu, Aug 13 · 12:00 PM GMT+12
https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-New-Zealand/events/271707416/
 

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