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A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #33, 2021-09-02 (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

ANSIBLE 4.5.0 RELEASED

The Ansible Community team announced the availability of Ansible 4.5.0 on August 31st. This update contains bugfixes and new, backwards compatible features in the contained collections. The release makes use of Ansible-core-2.11.4.

For what's new in this release and how to get it, please see Toshio Kuratomi’s email to the ansible-announce list.

CONTRIBUTOR SUMMIT & ANSIBLEFEST

The next Ansible Contributor Summit will be on September 28th and October 1st, alongside AnsibleFest 2021. Registration is open! Please register on Eventbrite to stay informed of updates to the event. Note that the AnsibleFest registration is separate from the Contributor Summit.

The first day (Tuesday, 28/9) is aimed at new contributors and people who want to understand what is involved in contributing. Day two (Friday, 1/10) will contain the usual interactive discussions with more technical details.

In addition, we will be running a Hackathon in parallel throughout the week (Tuesday to Friday). This is for anyone with an interest in contributing to Ansible (with a focus on Collections), including those who have never contributed and are unsure of how to get started, existing contributors and maintainers, etc. all are welcome! Resources (people, labs, docs, etc.) will be available to help people through the entire process.

During AnsibleFest, we will have a Community Live Q&A with members of the Ansible Community Team (exact date and time TBD). If you have pressing questions that you'd like us to answer/discuss, please suggest them in this GitHub issue.

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

  • Docker Community Collection - community.docker 1.9.1 has been released.
  • Ansible Community Crypto Collection - community.crypto 1.9.0 has been released.
  • Community General Collection - community.general 1.3.12 and 3.6.0 have been released.
  • Sensu Go Ansible Collection - sensu.sensu_go 1.12.0 has been released.
  • Openstack Ansible Collection - openstack.cloud 1.5.1 has been released which contains some new features and bugfixes, mostly networking related.

ANNOUNCING NEW COLLECTION MAINTAINER

We are happy to announce that the community.rabbitmq collection has found a new maintainer: Jacob Floyd.

He has done an excellent job as a code contributor and reviewer in several repositories within the ansible and ansible-collections organizations. He is also a maintainer of the community.mongodb collection.

On behalf of the Ansible Community and the Community Team, we’d like to congratulate him on getting commit access, and say THANK YOU!

ANSIBLE GALAXY UPDATE

We updated the backend infrastructure of Ansible Galaxy on August 24th. It is now running off the latest major version of OpenShift, and this allows us to keep up to date with performance and security patches.

We realize that we didn't do the best job in informing people about the downtime in advance. We will work on improving such communication, including notification banners on galaxy.ansible.com.

ANSIBLE MOLECULE UPDATE

  • Ansible Molecule 3.4.0 was released which now allows plugins to require presence of various collections needed by them. Its most popular plugins were also updated to expose their required collections.
  • The Molecule container was removed from quay.io after almost one year of deprecation.

NEW TOOL: RELEASE RSS FEEDS AGGREGATOR

A new tool to help keep track of project releases is now available for the community. It provides a blog-like interface that aggregates the release RSS feeds of relevant Ansible community projects, in addition to every Ansible collection included in the Ansible community package on PyPI. It also provides a meta Atom feed that aggregates the last one hundred events, available here.

Feel free to open an issue or pull request in rss-feed-aggregator to improve it or add missing projects.

NEW TOOL: CODESEARCH

A new Codesearch tool is now available to help quickly search across the 350+ git repositories that make up the ansible, ansible-community and ansible-collections organizations on GitHub, as well as collections included in the Ansible community package.

It is deployed with the help of Ansible. While it is rough around the edges, feel free to take a look here if you are curious about how it works, or perhaps even how you might be able to deploy it for yourself.

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

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ANSIBLE MEETUPS & COMMUNITY EVENTS

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

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

Red Hat is hiring several roles to work on Ansible. Please check the job descriptions in the links and apply!

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.

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