Ansible 2.5¶
Core Engine Freeze and Module Freeze: 22 January 2018
Core and Curated Module Freeze: 22 January 2018
Community Module Freeze: 7 February 2018
Release Candidate 1 will be 21 February, 2018
Target: March 2018
Service Release schedule: every 2-3 weeks
Topics
Release Manager¶
Matt Davis (IRC/GitHub: @nitzmahone)
Engine improvements¶
Assemble module improvements - assemble just skips when in check mode, it should be able to test if there is a difference and changed=true/false. - The same with diff, it should work as template modules does
Handle Password reset prompts cleaner
Tasks stats for rescues and ignores
Normalize temp dir usage across all subsystems
Add option to set playbook dir for adhoc, inventory and console to allow for ‘relative path loading’
Ansible-Config¶
Extend config to more plugin types and update plugins to support the new config
Inventory¶
ansible-inventory option to output group variable assignment and data (–export)
Create inventory plugins for: - aws
Facts¶
Namespacing fact variables (via a config option) implemented in ansible/ansible PR #18445. Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue #17.
Make fact collectors and gather_subset specs finer grained
Eliminate unneeded deps between fact collectors
Allow fact collectors to indicate if they need information from another fact collector to be gathered first.
Static Loop Keyword¶
A simpler altenative to
with_
,loop:
only takes a listRemove complexity from loops, lookups are still available to users
Less confusing having a static directive vs a one that is dynamic depending on plugins loaded.
Runtime Check on Modules for Blacklisting¶
Filter on things like “supported_by” in module metadata
Provide users with an option of “warning, error or allow/ignore”
Configurable via ansible.cfg and environment variable
Windows¶
Implement gather_subset on Windows facts
Fix Windows async + become to allow them to work together
Implement Windows become flags for controlling various modes (done) - logontype - elevation behavior
Convert win_updates to action plugin for auto reboot and extra features (done)
Spike out changing the connection over to PSRP instead of WSMV (done- it’s possible)
Module updates
win_updates (done)
Fix win_updates to detect (or request) become
Add whitelist/blacklist features to win_updates
win_dsc further improvements (done)
General Cloud¶
Make multi-cloud provisioning easier
Diff mode will output provisioning task results of ansible-playbook runs
Terraform module
AWS¶
Focus on pull requests for various modules
Triage existing merges for modules
Module work
ec2_instance
ec2_vpc: Allow the addition of secondary IPv4 CIDRS to existing VPCs.
AWS Network Load Balancer support (NLB module, ASG support, etc)
rds_instance
Azure¶
Azure CLI auth (done)
Fix Azure module results to have “high-level” output instead of raw REST API dictionary (partial, more to come in 2.6)
Deprecate Azure automatic storage accounts in azure_rm_virtualmachine (breaks on Azure Stack, punted until AS supports managed disks)
Network Roadmap¶
Refactor common network shared code into package (done)
Convert various nxos modules to leverage declarative intent (done)
Refactor various modules to leverage the cliconf plugin (done)
Add various missing declarative modules for supported platforms and functions (done)
Implement a feature that handles platform differences and feature unavailability (done)
netconf-config.py should provide control for deployment strategy
Create netconf connection plugin (done)
Create netconf fact module
Turn network_cli into a usable connection type (done)
Implements jsonrpc message passing for ansible-connection (done)
Improve logging for ansible-connection (done)
Improve stdout output for failures whilst using persistent connection (done)
Create IOS-XR NetConf Plugin and refactor iosxr modules to leverage netconf plugin (done)
Refactor junos modules to use netconf plugin (done)
Filters: Add a filter to convert XML response from a network device to JSON object (done)
Documentation¶
Extend documentation to more plugins
Document vault-password-client scripts.
Network Documentation
New landing page (to replace intro_networking) (done)
Platform specific guides (done)
Walk through: Getting Started (done)
Networking and
become
(done)Best practice (done)
Contributor Quality of Life¶
Finish PSScriptAnalyer integration with ansible-test (for enforcing Powershell style) (done)
Resolve issues requiring skipping of some integration tests on Python 3.