The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #18, 2021-01-20 (Past Issues)

Welcome to the Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible developer community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, please reach out to us at the-bullhorn@redhat.com, or comment on this GitHub issue.

KEY DATES

2021-01-20: community IRC meeting, 19:00 UTC
2021-01-21: D&I working group meeting, 19:00 UTC
2021-01-26: ETA for Ansible 2.10.6 release
2021-01-27: New collections to be included in Ansible 3.0.0 must be reviewed and approved by this date.
- If you have not submitted your collection for review by now, it will probably not be reviewed and approved in time for inclusion.
2021-01-27: community IRC meeting, 19:00 UTC
2021-02-01: Bullhorn #19 content deadline
2021-02-15: ETA for Ansible-base 2.10.6 release
2021-02-16: ETA for Ansible 3.0.0 release

ANSIBLE-BASE 2.10.5 NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE

The Ansible Core team announced the general release of Ansible-Base 2.10.5 on January 18th. This ansible-base package consists of only the Ansible execution engine, related tools (e.g. ansible-galaxy, ansible-test), and a very small set of built-in plugins, and is also bundled with the larger Ansible distribution. For more information on how to download, test, and report issues, read Rick Elrod’s announcement to the ansible-devel mailing list.

ANSIBLE 2.9.17 RELEASED

The Ansible Core team announced the availability of Ansible 2.9.17 maintenance release on January 18th. Follow this link for Rick Elrod’s email to the ansible-devel mailing list, to obtain details on what’s new, installation instructions, and link to the full changelog.

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

The Community Sops Collection version 1.0.2 has been released. This is the first 1.x release.
The PostgreSQL collection for Ansible 1.1.0 has been released, containing bug fixes and a new query option.
The MySQL collection for Ansible 1.2.0 has been released with bug fixes and code refactoring.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS - KUBERNETES COLLECTION

The Kubernetes inventory plugin is being refactored to improve overall operation. We would like your comments on how this plugin is being used. Does the refactoring make sense? What is the impact, if any, of the changes? Are there other improvements to be made to help users? Please add your feedback to this GitHub issue.

PROPOSAL FOR ANSIBLE NETWORKING

The Ansible Network Engineering Team is cordially welcoming comments from the Ansible Network community for the following proposal: BGP Global and AF Context Resource Model. The enablement of BGP as network resource modules for supported platforms has long been requested, and is now being scoped and planned for implementing this year. Please provide feedback in the next few weeks!

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

The Ansible Content Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who has Python programming experience. The location is remote India. Please feel free to reach out to Trishna Guha directly if you are interested.

The Ansible Product Marketing team has 3 jobs available as Technical Marketing Managers (individual contributors, managing content, not people) that will focus on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform:

In addition, we're looking for a Manager of Technical Marketing to manage the technical marketing strategy and team, as well as 2 Product Marketing Managers. Please check the job descriptions in the links and apply!

ANSIBLE VIRTUAL MEETUPS

The following virtual meetups are being held in the Ansible community over the next month:

Thu, Jan 21 · 6:30 PM CST - Ansible Minneapolis - ARA: Recording Ansible Playbooks
Wed, Jan 27 · 5:00 PM GMT+1 - Ansible in DevOps Torun-Bydgoszcz - AiDO Meetup #12 Rook.io + Secrets in CI/CD

FEEDBACK

Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please send us an email at the-bullhorn@redhat.com.