Ansible 2.8 has been released. While not as many major features as 2.7, there are an absolute truckload of smaller features, including quite a few focussed on Windows. Some highlights for me: Experimental support for Ansible Collections and content namespacing – Ansible content can now be packaged in a collection and addressed via namespaces. This […]
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A new version of Ansible Tower has been released, including some useful features we’ve been looking forward to. In particular the additions to Workflow look very nice: the Workflow Convergence step which allows you to wait on multiple jobs before continuing should simplify some complex logic you’ve had to embed in your workflows to achieve
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RedHat Ansible Engine 2.7 has been released, bringing with it a bunch of new features including: Speedups on Linux. A new strategy for invoking remote systems is introduced requiring half the threads as previously. Reboot module for Linux – Like the existing win_reboot module for Windows, this allows you to reboot a remote Linux machine
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Red Hat Summit was held earlier in the year, and now that the recordings are online, we’ve pulled together all the Ansible content in one place. Whether you were able to attend Summit or not, there are some great ideas in here to improve your use of Ansible. Manage Windows Like Linux with Ansible
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There is a point release for Ansible that addresses a few issues, including a couple of Security issues: Security Fix – avoid loading host/group vars from cwd when not specifying a playbook or playbook base dir Security Fix – avoid using ansible.cfg in a world writable dir. This is in addition to the Security fix in 2.6
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