Ansible VS community-topics

Ansible v2.16

Ansible is a tool used to help manage software automation processes, configuration management across machines, deployment as well as remote execution of commands and scripts. In sports, Ansible operates as the coach of your team by providing strategies (playbooks), and actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks across your infrastructure, just like a coach guides and directs players (Servers)during a game.

They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...

To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck

In this article's context, it is simply a tool that provides a declarative way to automate your machine/OS to configure the development machine as you want (install package, modify the configuration, etc). Examples of these tools are Ansible, Puppet, etc.

Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)

In the lab to follow, we'll quickly provision a 3-node kubeadm cluster (1 master, 2 workers) on the cloud provider of your choice using an automation stack comprised of OpenTofu and Ansible, then deploy Rook Ceph using the official Helm charts and confirm that we are now able to successfully create CSI volume snapshots from PVCs by reusing the MinIO example from our last article.

Ansible-Core ↗

There is a community vote on a new policy for community.general on which ansible-core versions will be supported in new major releases. Basically support for ansible-core versions will be dropped if they were EOL at least a few weeks before the major release. For the upcoming community.general 8.0.0, that means that it will drop support for ansible-core 2.11 and 2.12 and require at least ansible-core 2.13. Details can be found in the associated issue.

As mentioned in The Bullhorn #113, we've opened a community / steering committee vote on declaring ngine_io.exoscale an effectively unmaintained collection and remove it from the Ansible 10 community package. Since then, there has been a new release. As a result, the vote ended with the decision to keep the collection in the community package.

2023-07-12: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)

Hi everyone. We're working on making Ansible community documentation a separate project to ansible/ansible. The purpose is to benefit the Ansible community by decoupling community doc initiatives from core release cycles. This change also removes the Ansible Core team as the gate for other doc related efforts that will meet community needs, such as putting source content for docs.ansible.com under the direct control of the Steering Committee. Overall this change is a first step towards providing greater access and ownership of docs.ansible.com to the Ansible community.

Looking for your feedback on making community docs a separate github project to ansible/ansible, starting with moving /docs from ansible/ansible to ansible/ansible-documentation. See this issue for details.

It looks like the netapp.elementsw collection is effectively unmaintained. According to the current community guidelines for collections, we consider removing it in a future version of the Ansible community package. Please see Unmaintained collection: netapp.elementsw for more information or to announce that you're interested in taking over the maintenance of (a fork of) netapp.elementsw.

The netapp.aws collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 10 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 10. See the removal process for details on how this works.

As mentioned in The Bullhorn #98, we consider netapp.aws an effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we've opened a community / steering committee vote on removing it from the Ansible 10 community package.

2023-05-10: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)

Work continues combining several pytest plugins for ansible.