The Bullhorn #92 (Ansible Newsletter)

1. community-topics

   1 60 34 5.0 Shell

   Discontinued [Moved to Ansible Forum] Discussions for Ansible Community 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.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. ansible-lint

   2 13 2,713 9.4 Python

   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.

4. network.ospf

   3 1 2 4.8 Python

   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

5. cisco.nxos

   4 5 130 7.8 Python

   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

6. cisco.ios

   5 11 327 8.3 Python

   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

7. ara

   6 82 1,940 6.9 Python

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

   

   Reach out on Mastodon or see this issue on GitHub.

8. Ansible

   7 411 65,576 9.8 Python

   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'.)

9. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

10. antsibull-docs

    8 5 35 8.8 Python

    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'.)

11. vscode-ansible

    9 19 429 9.7 TypeScript

    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."

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