ansible-build-data VS community.hashi_vault

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

My way of doing private SSL (not necessarily the easiest):

* own CA, to be distributed to all systems via Ansible playbook or Dockerfile directives

* Hashicorp Vault with enabled PKI engine

* Ansible Hashivault module [1]

* Ansible role & playbook to tie it all together

* CI enviroment for automated deployment of SSL certs to target systems

Works flawlessly once set up, including restart/reload of affected services. Might do a writeup on my personal blog at some point.

[1] https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault

community.hashi_vault 5.0.0 has been released. See the collection changelog for details.

community.hashi_vault version 4.2.1 has been released with updated documentation for the vault_kv2_write module. There are no functional changes.

community.hashi_vault version 4.2.0 [changelog] has been released with a new KVv2 write module and a warning/deprecation for duplicated term string option use in the hashi_vault lookup.

The community.hashi_vault collection has released version 4.1.0 with a new vault_list module and lookup from a new contributor! There are also some upcoming deprecation announcements for hvac and ansible-core support.

community.hashi_vault version 4.0.0 has been released, with previously announced breaking changes to some default values, and improvements to module documentation with attributes that describe the use of action groups and check mode support.

community.hashi_vault version 3.2.0 has been released with support for the azure auth method, thanks to new contributor @jchenship. This release also includes retries on HTTP 412 and a bugfix affecting requests>=2.28.0.

community.hashi_vault has released version 3.1.0, announcing a change to a default value that will take place in 4.0.0.

The community.hashi_vault collection is looking for feedback about support for end-of-life Python versions going forward. Join the discussion.

community.hashi_vault version 3.0.0 has been released, dropping support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10, as well as removing some deprecated features.