ansible-build-data VS community.aws

IBM -> RedHat -> Ansible (https://docs.ansible.com/platform.html)

I think the new ansible docs are opaque, and the new "everything is an ansible collection" scheme makes troubleshooting any issues reported by users hundreds of times harder than "the old days"

I keep this (https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob...) bookmarked because it's the only way to match up what "ansible 8.1.0" (https://pypi.org/project/ansible/8.1.0/) even means since it for damn sure not any of this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases (they used to have a 'release' pinned on that releases tab saying "these are not the droids you are looking for"). I believe I tried asking for them to update the completely erroneous pypi "source code" link to point to that repo and ... well, one can see how well that turned out

➡️ Check Release Notes📦️🗒️ and Ansible 8 Porting Guide for more details.

💽You can install it by running the following command or download the release tarball directly from pypi: pip install ansible==8.0.0a1 --user ➡️Check Release Notes 📦️🗒️ and Ansible 8 Porting Guide for more details!

You can find the current list for Ansible 7 here: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/ansible-7.build

Check Release Notes📦️🗒️ and Ansible 6 Porting Guide for more details on changes, improvements, new and deprecated features!!

You can find the release announcement on ansible-announce and the changelog on GitHub. Happy automating!

The vmware.vmware_rest collection has been included in Ansible 5. Thanks to everyone involved!

As https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/114 showed we should really check the existing collections included in the Ansible package. Some ideas:

Ansible 5.7.0 has been released with updates to 19 of the included Ansible collections! Read the announcement or check out the update changelog to learn more about this new version.

Debian package "ansible" -> called "ansible" on PyPI -> is called "ansible collections" through most of the documentation -> upstream PyPI packages are generated through https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data

community.aws 6.0.0 has been released with some new plugins and features. Several bugfixes, breaking changes and deprecated features are also included. The community.aws collection has dropped support for botocore<1.25.0 and boto3<1.22.0. Support for Python 3.6 has also been dropped (see changelog for details).

The community.aws collection version 5.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for details on new modules and features.

community.aws 3.2.1 has been released. The new parameter purge_tags in ec2_asg module, that was introduced in community.aws 3.2.0 with its default value true, 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.

community.aws 3.2.0 has been released with some new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).

community.aws 3.1.0 and 2.3.0 have been released.

Related to that, the ansible "community.aws.aws_ssm" connection plugin[0] always returns the output of "raw:" tasks with "\r" appended to it, too, and I'd guess it's for a similar reason

0: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/blob/3....

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.

ec2_instance information using this module -> community.aws.ec2_instance_info_module