amazon.aws VS community.general

Compare amazon.aws vs community.general and see what are their differences.

amazon.aws

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amazon.aws community.general
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270 761
0.7% 2.4%
9.3 9.7
5 days ago 3 days ago
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amazon.aws

Posts with mentions or reviews of amazon.aws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
  • The Bullhorn #115 (Ansible Newsletter)
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 13 Sep 2023
    amazon.aws 6.4.0 has been released with a new module named amazon.aws.ec2_key_info, some documentation improvements, new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #105 (Ansible Newsletter)
    4 projects | /r/ansible | 12 Jun 2023
    amazon.aws 5.5.1 has been released with several bugfixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #102 (Ansible Newsletter)
    9 projects | /r/ansible | 16 May 2023
    amazon.aws 5.5.0 has been released with a number of bugfixes, new features and new modules. This is the last planned minor release prior to the release of version 6.0.0 (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #97 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 5 Apr 2023
    amazon.aws 5.4.0 has been released with bugfixes for the ec2_metadata_facts, ec2_vol, rds_instance and route53_info modules, as well as feature enhancements for the ec2_spot_instance and route53_health_check modules - see changelog for details.
  • is it just me, or does RH's docs on AAP just suck?
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 30 Dec 2022
    Hi folks! I'm one of the docs writers for community Ansible (aka docs.ansible.com, not access.redhat.com). It sounds like you've found a place to log your docs problems already but I did open an issue on the amazon.aws collection directly to handle the examples that aren't quoted for `filters` at https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1331
  • The Bullhorn #77 (Ansible Newsletter)
    6 projects | /r/ansible | 7 Oct 2022
    The amazon.aws collection version 5.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for details on new modules and features.
  • The Bullhorn #64 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 24 Jun 2022
    amazon.aws 4.0.0 has been released with some new features, bugfixes, breaking changes and deprecated features. The amazon.aws collection has also dropped support for botocore<1.20.0 and boto3<1.17.0 (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #52 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 31 Mar 2022
    amazon.aws 2.2.0 has been released with bug-fixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #46 (Ansible Newsletter)
    10 projects | /r/ansible | 17 Feb 2022
    amazon.aws 3.1.1 has been released with some new features, bugfixes and a deprecation (see changelog for details). 3.1.0 failed to publish on Galaxy, hence, we had to bump the release version.
  • The Bullhorn #44 (Ansible Newsletter - now weekly!)
    7 projects | /r/ansible | 3 Feb 2022
    The AWS community has begun planning for the 4.0.0 releases of amazon.aws and community.aws. Please see the linked issues for more details or to get involved.

community.general

Posts with mentions or reviews of community.general. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
  • The Bullhorn #102 (Ansible Newsletter)
    9 projects | /r/ansible | 16 May 2023
    community.general 7.0.0 has been released with some new modules, a lot of new features, and a lot of bugfixes. Please make sure to look at least at the sections Breaking Changes and Removed Features in the changelog to figure out whether you need to change something in your roles or playbooks.
  • The Bullhorn #97 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 5 Apr 2023
    community.general 6.5.0 (changelog) has been released with new features, bugfixes, and new plugins. Note that the next minor 6.x.y release will be 6.6.0 on April 24th, and after that the next minor/major release will be 7.0.0 on May 8th. That is one week before May 15th, the feature freeze date for Ansible 8.
  • The Bullhorn #87 (Ansible Newsletter) - Happy new year!!
    4 projects | /r/ansible | 11 Jan 2023
    community.general 6.2.0 (changelog) has been released. Please note that the Rackspace modules might get deprecated in version 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0, since the Python library they are based on (pyrax) has been deprecated for a long time. If you are interested in maintaining and improving (potentially partially rewriting?) the modules to avoid removal, please look at the GitHub issue discussing this.
  • The Bullhorn #81 (Ansible Newsletter)
    6 projects | /r/ansible | 11 Nov 2022
    community.general 6.0.0 (changelog) has been released! Besides a lot of new features and bugfixes, new modules and plugins, some deprecations and breaking changes, a major change to 5.x.y is that the plugins/modules/ directory tree structure has been removed. Please check out the changelog for more details!
  • Anybody familiar with GitLab and the community.general.gitlab_runner Ansible module?
    1 project | /r/ansible | 23 Mar 2022
    The module docs can be found here. The source can be found here.
  • Ansible git module not supported push
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 28 Jan 2022
  • Help with JSON query
    1 project | /r/ansible | 23 Jan 2022
  • The Bullhorn #42 (Ansible Newsletter)
    6 projects | /r/ansible | 14 Jan 2022
    We are looking at reducing the maintenance for old stable branches for community.general and community.network collection repositories. We'd welcome your feedback, in particular if you think you may be negatively impacted by the change. Full details of the proposal, and the ability to record your vote can be done via community-topic#55.
  • The Bullhorn, Issue 40 (Ansible Newsletter)
    9 projects | /r/ansible | 21 Dec 2021
    community.general 3.8.3 has been released with some bugfixes (changelog).
  • Is it possible to chain callbacks?
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 5 Sep 2021
    If you are missing metrics or something else from the logstash callback it could be an opportunity to contribute it upstream: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/plugins/callback/logstash.py

What are some alternatives?

When comparing amazon.aws and community.general you can also consider the following projects:

community - This repository is being archived. See https://github.com/ansible-community/presentations and https://github.com/ansible-community/meetings for the new locations

git-acp-ansible - git_acp (add/commit/push) installer for Ansible

community.aws - Ansible Collection for Community AWS

community.hashi_vault - Ansible collection for managing and working with HashiCorp Vault.

awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖

community.postgresql - Manage PostgreSQL with Ansible

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

community.vmware - Ansible Collection for VMware

awx - AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Ansible-for-Kubernetes-by-Example-by-Luca-Berton - Ansible for Kubernetes by Examples by Luca Berton

ansible-meraki - Cisco Meraki Ansible Collection