The Bullhorn #84 (Ansible Newsletter)

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/ansible

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  • 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.

    Next Ansible AWX Community Office Hours meeting will be on 13 December, at 15UTC! Join us to discuss and help shape the future of AWX! Agenda (and meeting link) is here.

  • community-topics

    Discussions for Ansible Meetings

    2022-12-14: Community WG meeting, 19:00 UTC (propose topics here)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • antsibull

    Tooling for building various things related to ansible

    antsibull-core 2.0.0a1 has been released. This major release drops support for Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 and deprecates some compatability code (full changelog). It also includes a new feature needed by antsibull-build. antsibull-core houses shared code used by antsibull-build and antsibull-docs. If you use either of these tools, please help us test this new release. It can be installed with pip install -U antsibull-core==2.0.0a1. Note that you'll need the latest version of antsibull and antsibull-docs to use antsibull-core 2.0.0a1.

  • antsibull-docs

    Tooling for building Ansible documentation

    antsibull-core 2.0.0a1 has been released. This major release drops support for Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 and deprecates some compatability code (full changelog). It also includes a new feature needed by antsibull-build. antsibull-core houses shared code used by antsibull-build and antsibull-docs. If you use either of these tools, please help us test this new release. It can be installed with pip install -U antsibull-core==2.0.0a1. Note that you'll need the latest version of antsibull and antsibull-docs to use antsibull-core 2.0.0a1.

  • 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.

    Ansible-Core ↗ ⚡️

  • docsite

    Static HTML and assets for docs.ansible.com (by ansible)

    The ansible/docsite repo is now public, giving the Ansible community full access to all the html and navigation assets that go into docs.ansible.com. Fork the repo and start hacking.

  • google.cloud

    GCP Ansible Collection https://galaxy.ansible.com/google/cloud

    The 1.1.0-beta of the google.cloud collection is live on Ansible Galaxy! This is the first release to the google.cloud collection in over a year, and focuses primarily on compatibility fixes for ansible-core 2.13. Please give it a try and file any issues on GitHub.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • community.sap_libs

    Automation for SAP - Collection of Ansible Modules for SAP for low-level activities which are highly reusable

    community.sap_libs 1.4.0 (changelog) has been released with new features and bugfixes. Note that the sap modules from community.general will be replaced by redirects to community.sap_libs in the next major release.

  • skydive

    Ansible Collection for Skydive network / protocols analyzer (by ansible-collections)

    It looks like the community.skydive 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: community.skydive for more information or to announce that you're interested in taking over the maintenance of (a fork of) community.skydive.

  • receptor

    Project Receptor is a flexible multi-service relayer with remote execution and orchestration capabilities linking controllers with executors across a mesh of nodes.

    A retry mechanism has been added to Receptor, to handle intermittent connection issues with Kubernetes logging stream. This fixes an issue where AWX jobs lasting longer than 4 hours would fail. Go try it out and let us know how it works!

  • ara

    ARA Records Ansible and makes it easier to understand and troubleshoot.

    ARA Records Ansible 1.6.0 has been released and includes a bunch of improvements and new features to make playbooks easier to understand and troubleshoot! You can find the highlights from this release on the blog and the full changelog is available on GitHub.

  • ansible-sign

    The `ansible-sign` utility for signing and verifying Ansible project directory contents.

    I am very excited to present my first blog post! Project signing is a new feature developed for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that came out in the latest 2.3 release. It enables users to sign project-based content (think playbooks, workflows, inventories, etc.) and verify whether or not that content has remained secure. It also features a new CLI tool, ansible-sign. This blog post will explain how it works, illustrate how to implement it, and highlight a few scenarios. Check it out 👉️ here.

  • overview

    Collections overview, how to request a namespace

    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).

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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