Bullhorn #55
A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #55, 2022-04-21 (Past Issues)
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KEY DATES ⏱️
cybette said
- 2022-04-25: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.12.5 and Ansible-Core 2.11.11 releases
- 2022-04-26: ETA for Ansible 5.7.0 release
- 2022-04-26: DaWGs meeting, 15:00 UTC
- 2022-04-27: Community WG meeting topic: List any backwards incompatible collection releases that Ansible 6.0.0b1 should try to accommodate, 18:00 UTC
- 2022-04-28: Amazon Web Services WG meeting, 17:30 UTC
- 2022-04-28: Bullhorn #56 content deadline, 18:00 UTC
- 2022-05-23: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.13 GA
- 2022-05-23: End-of-life for upstream Ansible 2.9 and Ansible-base 2.10
- 2022-06-21: ETA for Ansible 6.0.0 GA
GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️
abuzachis shared
The Amazon Web Services Working group is holding a monthly community meeting in #ansible-aws IRC channel at 17:30 UTC every fourth Thursday of the month. The next community meeting is scheduled on April 28th at 17:30 UTC. If you have something to discuss (e.g. a PR that needs help), add your request to the meeting agenda and join the IRC #ansible-aws channel / #aws:ansible.com room on Matrix.
cybette contributed
The live video stream from Ansible Contributor Summit 2022.04 is available for playback! Thanks to ziegenberg, we now have timestamps for the individual sessions as chapters in the video, so you can go directly to the presentations you're interested in, or might have missed. We will be sharing the rest of the info (talk details, slides, etc.) as well as the Contributor Survey next week. Thanks again to everyone for your participation and making it an amazing experience for all!
COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄
markuman shared
community.proxysql 1.3.2 has been released.
felixfontein shared
community.hrobot 1.3.0 has been released (changelog).
markuman said
community.aws 3.2.1 has been released.
The new parameterpurge_tags
inec2_asg
module, that was introduced in community.aws 3.2.0 with its default valuetrue
, possibly breaks existing playbooks for users if they don't update their playbooks and specify purge_tags: false. However, this release restores the previous behaviour.
HELP WANTED 🙏
samccann contributed
Looking for a way to contribute to Ansible? How about starting with one of these easyfix issues?
PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️
felixfontein contributed
If you are interested in using community.crypto in an Execution Environment, you might be interested in the discussion which cryptography library (quite old system libraries with FIPS enabled, or latest PyPi versions without FIPS) should the collection depend on: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/440#issuecomment-1100605304 If you have opinions on this, please comment!
cybette said
Your votes needed! Proposal: merge and adopt the procedures defined in Describe how collections can be removed from the Ansible package. Please vote in this issue (and not in the PR). The vote will close on 2022-04-27.
samccann said
Ansible community documentation priorities - this topic lists the priorities that we'll focus on for community Ansible documentation. We welcome your feedback on this to ensure we are focusing efforts where needed.
COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅
cybette shared
Join Ansible Singapore group in “Ansible Virtual Meet Up - April 2022” talking about Automation Mesh on Thursday, April 28 at 09:00 SGT / 01:00 UTC. Check the details of this virtual meetup and RSVP here.
Join Ansible New Zealand as they reconnect with fellow Ansibulls with Bank of New Zealand sharing on how they enabled others through the power of Ansible Automation. The online event will be on April 28, at 12:00 NZST. More details and RSVP here.
Ansible Minneapolis is having their April Meetup at Bad Weather Brewing. Join them on April 28 at 18:30 CDT and help them define the next steps for the meetup.
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!