overview VS community.zabbix

As mentioned in last week's Bullhorn issue, cyberark.pas is subject to removal from version 9 of the Ansible community package due to unresolved Collection Requirements violations. A week has passed since the community-topics issue was filed and other SC members confirmed the violation, so a vote has been started (vote ends on 2022-12-16).

cyberark.pas is subject to removal from version 9 of the Ansible community package due to unresolved Collection Requirements violations. Please see community-topics#168 for more information.

The community steering committee has started a vote on whether we should amend the Ansible community package removal process to consider collections with unresolved Collection Requirements violations unmaintained and thus subject to removal. Please see the PR that amends the policy and the community-topics ticket for more information.

The Ansible Community Steering Committee has approved a change to the Collection Requirements re. SCM and release requirements. Collections were always required to tag releases, but we have clarified what tagging actually means. We have also explicitly stated that "collection artifacts released to Galaxy MUST be built from the sources that are tagged in the collection's git repository as that release." Please see the full change for more information.

We are happy to announce that the ibm.spectrum_virtualize collection has been included in the ansible community package. Thanks to everyone who helped review the collection and thanks to the maintainers for submitting the collection and making it satisfy the Collection requirements!

How? Copy the Review checklist into a discussion and go through it. See the complete example.

We've recently signed off on that process, which you can review here.

Your votes needed! Proposal: merge and adopt the procedures defined in Describe how collections can be removed from the Ansible package. Please vote in this issue (and not in the PR). The vote will close on 2022-04-27.

Pros: - Motivation for developers to create new collections which can become a part of Ansible package ("so popular and important in IT world", etc). - Motivation to create content satisfying the collection requirements. - Motivation to maintain included collections to avoid kicking them out from the package "I can't show off with my collection any more..:(" - ...(suggest yours)

We have docs in three places today for contributors: * ansible/ansible in the community folder * ansible/community-docs - more collection focused * ansible-collections/overview - has deeper collection contribution details

However, there is a breaking change to https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix/blob/main/plugins/inventory/zabbix_inventory.py which breaks the ability to import host groups from zabbix. This means you'll have all the hosts into one single group.

Use the "official" zabbix collection, there seems no "force psk renewal' present but you could just insert a pre_task to delete it and run the role: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix/blob/main/roles/zabbix_agent/tasks/tlspsk_auto_linux.yml

i'm using community.zabbix for deploying the zabbix_agent2 on Windows Machines.

We are happy to welcome several new maintainers in the community.zabbix collection: pyrodie18, BGmot and lzadjsf. Thank you, folks, for your interest and desire to help! Many thanks to D3DeFi, one of the current collection maintainers, for promoting them!

As for automation, I'm about to start playing with: Ansible Collection: Community Zabbix So that might prove useful for you too.

for community.zabbix: With the release of Zabbix 6.0 LTS we would love to get some help on blocking issues like with the integration of a new scripts module. Thank you for your attention!

A lot has been happening in the community.zabbix collection. They've gained two new maintainers, rockaut and ragingpastry, congratulations to both and thank you for your continued great work. The team has recently released version 1.5.1. If you're interested in Zabbix, join the active discussion in #community-zabbix_community:gitter.im via Matrix.

The ansible collection is very good (no one wants to setup manually agent and extend checks with user-parameters manually): https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix (works for all components).

Yes, each role has their own Molecule configuration and tests. So with every change you make in your role, Molecule will test this. (Keep note: It needs to be executed from Jenkins/GitLab CI/Github Actions etc). Once everything is valid, you will merge the code to master|main. See: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix/tree/main/molecule These are the roles I maintain, everytime when someone is creating a PR to add new code/functionality, molecule is executed. When Molecule exits correctly (exit code of 0), then to me the role is ok (In a nutshell). And when the role is ok, I will accept/merge the PR.