ansible/TODO.md

TODO list and plans

Playbook TODO:

• error codes and failure summaries
• create modules that return 'changed' attributes
• fail nodes on errors, i.e. remove from host list, rather than continuing to pound them
• further improve output
• more conditional capability
• very good logging

Command module:

• allow additional key/value options to be passed to any module (via ENV vars?)
• allow this to be expressed in playbook as a 4th option after the array options list
• use this to pass timeout and async params to the command module default timeouts will be infinite, async False

General:

• logging
• async options
• modules for users, groups, and files, using puppet style ensure mechanics
• very simple option constructing/parsing for modules
• templating module (how might this work syntax wise?) with facter/ohai awareness
  • probably could lay down a values.json file
  • use copy capabilities to move files to tmp, run python templating
  • maybe support templating engine of choice
• think about how to build idempotency guards around command module?
• think about how to feed extra JSON data onto system

Bonus utilities:

• ansible-inventory - gathering fact/hw info, storing in git, adding RSS
• ansible-slurp - recursively rsync file trees for each host
• maybe it's own fact engine, not required, that also feeds from facter

Not so interested really, but maybe:

• list available modules from command line
• add/remove/list hosts from the command line
• filter exclusion (run this only if fact is true/false) -- should be doable with playbooks (i.e. not neccessary)