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Ansible by Red Hat, Core 2.4
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Target: Aug/Mid-September 2017
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- **Administrivia and Process**
- Starting with 2.4, all items that are deprecated will be removed in 4 major releases unless otherwise stated.
- For example: A module that is deprecated in 2.4 will be removed in 2.8
- **Python 2.4 and 2.5 support discontinuation**
- Ansible will not support Python 2.4 nor 2.5 on the target hosts anymore. Going forward, Python 2.6+ will be required on targets, as already is the case on the controller.
- **Python 3 and beyond**
- Ansible Core Engine and Core modules will be tested on Python 3
- Communicate with Linux distros to provide Ansible running on Python 3
- Check for Python 3 tests on core modules and create any missing
- **Ansible-Config**
- New yaml format for config
- Extend the ability of the current config system by adding an ansible-config command and add the following:
- Dump existing config settings
- Update / write a config entry
- Show available options (ini entry, yaml, env var, etc)
- Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#35 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/35> `_ .
- Initial PR of code found in ansible/ansible PR `#12797 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/12797> `_ .
- **Inventory Overhaul**
- Current inventory is overly complex, non modular and mostly still a legacy from inception.
- We also want to add a common set of features to most inventory sources but are hampered by the current code base.
- Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#41 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/41> `_ .
- **Facts Refreshening**
- Configurable list of ‘ ’ `` gather_facts ``
- Fact gathering policy finer grained
- Make `` setup.py `` /`` facts `` more pluggable
- Improve testing of `` setup.py `` /`` facts.py ``
- Namespacing fact variables (via a config option) implemented in ansible/ansible PR `#18445 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/18445> `_ .
- Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#17 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/17> `_ .
- **PluginLoader Refactor**
- Over the past couple releases we've had some thoughts about how
PluginLoader might be better structured
- Load the loaders via an initialization function(), not when importing
the module. (stretch goal, doesn't impact the CLI)
- Separate duties of `` PluginLoader `` from `` PluginFinder `` . Most plugins need
both but Modules and Module_utils only need a PluginFinder
- Write different `` PluginFinder `` subclasses for module_utils and perhaps
Modules. Most Plugin types have a flattened namespace and are single
python files. Modules include code that is not written in python.
Module_utils are vastly different from the other Plugins as they
maintain a hierarchical namespace and are multi-file.
- Potentially split module_utils loader for python from module_utils
loader for powershell. Currently we only support generic module_utils
for python modules. The powershell modules always include a single,
hardcoded powershell module_utils file. If we add generic module_utils
for powershell, we'll need to decide how to organize the code.
- **Static Loop Keyword**
- Deprecate (not on standard deprecation cycle) `` with_ `` in favor of `` loop: ``
- This `` loop: `` will take only a list
- Remove complexity from loops, lookups are still available to users
- Less confusing having a static directive vs a one that is dynamic depending on plugins loaded.
- **Vault Extensibility**
- Support for multiple vault passwords
- Each decrypted item should know which secret to request
- Support requesting credentials (password prompt) as callbacks
- Ability to open and edit file with encrypted vars deencrypted, and encrypt/format on save
- **Globalize Callbacks**
- Make send_callback available to other code that cannot use it.
- Would allow for ‘ ’
- Fixes static ‘ ’
- **Document Plugins**
- Allow plugins to have embedded docs (like modules)
- Update ansible-doc and website to generate docs from these ansible/ansible PR `#22796 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22796> `_ .
- **Group Priorities**
- Start using existing group priority variable to sort/merge group vars
- Implementation for this in ansible/ansible PR `#22580 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22580> `_ .
- Documentation of group priority variable
- **Runtime Check on Modules for Blacklisting**
- Filter on things like "supported_by" in module metadata
- Provide users with an option of "warning, error or allow/ignore"
- Configurable via ansible.cfg and environment variable
- **Disambiguate Includes**
- Create import_x for ‘ ’
- Any directives are applied to the ‘ ’
- Create include_x for ‘ ’
- Any directives apply to the ‘ ’
- **Windows Support**
- New PS/.NET module API
- Windows Nano Server support
- Windows module_utils pluginloader
- Refactor duplicated module code into new module_utils files
- Evaluate #Requires directives (existing and new: PS version, OS version, etc)
- Improve module debug support/persistence
- Explore official DSC support
- Explore module intermediate output
- Explore Powershell module unit testing
- Explore JEA support (stretch)
- Extended become support with network/service/batch logon types
- Module updates
- Split "Windows" category into multiple subs
- Domain user/group management modules
- win_mapped_drive module
- win_hotfix
- win_updates rewrite to require become
- win_package changes required to deprecate win_msi
- win_copy re-write
- **Cloud Provider Support**
- AWS
- Focus on pull requests for various modules
- Triage existing merges for modules
- Module work
- elb-target-groups
- alb*
- ecs
- Data Pipelines
- VPN
- DirectConnect
- Azure
- Expose endpoint overrides
- Reformat/document module output to collapse internal API structures and surface important data (eg, public IPs, NICs, data disks)
- Add load balancer module
- Add Azure Functions module
- Google Cloud Platform
- New Module: DataProc
- Support for Cross-Region HTTP Load Balancing
- New Module: GKE
- **Network Roadmap**
- Removal of `` *_template `` modules
- Session Tracing
- Refactor ansible-connection to cli
- Module Work
- Declarative intent modules
- OpenVSwitch
- **Contributor Quality of Life**
- All Core and Curated modules will work towards having unit testing.
- More bot improvements!
- Test Infrastructure changes
- Shippable + Bot Integration
- Provide verified test results to the bot from Shippable so the bot can comment on PRs with CI failures.
- Enable the bot to mark PRs with `` ci_verified `` if all CI failures are verified.
- Windows Server 2016 Integration Tests
- Restore Windows Server 2016 integration tests on Shippable.
- Originally enabled during the 2.3 release cycle, but later disabled due to intermittent WinRM issues.
- Depends on resolution of WinRM connection issues.
- Windows Server Nano Integration Tests
- Add support to ansible-core-ci for Windows Server 2016 Nano and enable on Shippable.
- This will use a subset of the existing Windows integration tests.
- Depends on resolution of WinRM connection issues.
- Windows + Python 3 Tests
- Run basic Windows tests using Python 3 as the controller.
- Depends on resolution of WinRM Python 3 issues.
- Cloud Integration Tests
- Run existing cloud integration tests for AWS, Azure and GCP as part of CI.
- Tests to be run only on cloud module (and module_utils) PRs and merges for the relevant cloud provider.
- Test Reliability
- Further improve test reliability to reduce false positives on Shippable.
- This continues work from the 2.3 release cycle.
- Static Code Analysis
- Further expand the scope and coverage of static analysis.
- This continues work from the 2.3 release cycle.
