The Bullhorn #92 (Ansible Newsletter)

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

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  • community-topics

    Discussions for Ansible Meetings

  • In short, we believe the time has come to have a community DNS zone separate to ansible.com, and also to have a project-wide discussion space in the form of a Discourse forum. Crucially though, we don't get to call all the shots - so if you have opinions, or just want to give it a thumbs-up, you can head to the GitHub discussions part 1 & part 2.

  • ansible-lint

    Discontinued Best practices checker for Ansible [Moved to: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-lint] (by ansible)

  • Ansible-lint 6.13 introduces a new feature that allows users to utilize a .ansible-lint-ignore file. This file contains skip-rules that are loaded from the ignore file which is adjacent to the config file. Additionally, users can take advantage of the --generate-ignore argument to dump any current violations into an ignore file.

  • 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.

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  • network.ospf

    network.ospf Ansible Collection

  • A few updates on what the Networking team is working on: * we are developing some content related to interfaces and ospf * we are working on extending the capabilities of nxos_bgp_global to support the creation of neighbour templates; earlier we could use the module to just apply one that is already created * we are planning to release a filter plugin (ace_popper) which acts on a set of acls facts gathered from a network appliance, and removes ace entries on the basis of some matching criteria

  • cisco.nxos

    Ansible Network Collection for Cisco NXOS

  • A few updates on what the Networking team is working on: * we are developing some content related to interfaces and ospf * we are working on extending the capabilities of nxos_bgp_global to support the creation of neighbour templates; earlier we could use the module to just apply one that is already created * we are planning to release a filter plugin (ace_popper) which acts on a set of acls facts gathered from a network appliance, and removes ace entries on the basis of some matching criteria

  • cisco.ios

    Ansible Network Collection for Cisco IOS

  • A few updates on what the Networking team is working on: * we are developing some content related to interfaces and ospf * we are working on extending the capabilities of nxos_bgp_global to support the creation of neighbour templates; earlier we could use the module to just apply one that is already created * we are planning to release a filter plugin (ace_popper) which acts on a set of acls facts gathered from a network appliance, and removes ace entries on the basis of some matching criteria

  • ara

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

  • Reach out on Mastodon or see this issue on GitHub.

  • 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.

  • More than two years ago the Ansible Docs Working Group started discussing the use of semantic markup for Ansible plugin/module documentation. This resulted in a specification that has been implemented as proofs of concept both for ansible-doc and the validate-modules sanity test, as well as for antsibull-docs. From the docs perspective this will improve plugin, module, and now also role documentation a lot, and in particular separate markup from content. (Right now you have to use C(...) and I(...) for values and option names, which stand for 'code-style' and 'italics'.)

  • 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.

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  • antsibull-docs

    Tooling for building Ansible documentation

  • More than two years ago the Ansible Docs Working Group started discussing the use of semantic markup for Ansible plugin/module documentation. This resulted in a specification that has been implemented as proofs of concept both for ansible-doc and the validate-modules sanity test, as well as for antsibull-docs. From the docs perspective this will improve plugin, module, and now also role documentation a lot, and in particular separate markup from content. (Right now you have to use C(...) and I(...) for values and option names, which stand for 'code-style' and 'italics'.)

  • vscode-ansible

    vscode/vscodium extension for providing Ansible auto-completion and integrating quality assurance tools like ansible-lint, ansible syntax check, yamllint, molecule and ansible-test.

  • I asked the devtools team and here is their reply: "The telemetry data is sent to the Red Servers and are not publicly available. Though we have documented the usage data that we gather here."

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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