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Ansible by Red Hat, Core 2.4
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**Core Engine Freeze and Module Freeze: 15 August 2017**
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**Core and Curated Module Freeze: 15 August 2017**
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**Community Module Freeze: 29 August 2017**
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**Target: Mid-September 2017**
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.. contents:: Topics
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Administrivia and Process
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- Starting with 2.4, all items that are deprecated will be removed in 4 major releases unless otherwise stated.
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- For example: A module that is deprecated in 2.4 will be removed in 2.8
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Python 2.4 and 2.5 support discontinuation
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- Ansible will not support Python 2.4 nor 2.5 on the target hosts anymore.
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Going forward, Python 2.6+ will be required on targets, as already is the case on the controller.
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Python 3
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- Ansible Core Engine and Core modules will be tested on Python 3
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- Communicate with Linux distros to provide Ansible running on Python 3
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- Check for Python 3 tests on core modules and create any missing
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Ansible-Config
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- Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#35 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/35>`_.
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- Initial PR of code found in ansible/ansible PR `#12797 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/12797>`_. **(done)**
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- Per plugin configuration (depends on plugin docs below). **(WIP)**
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- New yaml format for config **(possibly pushed to future roadmap)**
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- Extend the ability of the current config system by adding an ``ansible-config`` command and add the following:
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- Dump existing config settings **(working, fine tuning)**
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- Update / write a config entry **(pushed to future roadmap)**
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- Show available options (ini entry, yaml, env var, etc) **(working, fine tuning)**
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Inventory
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**(done, needs docs)**
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- Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#41 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/41>`_.
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- Current inventory is overly complex, non modular and mostly still a legacy from inception.
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Facts
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- Configurable list of ‘fact modules’ for ``gather_facts`` **(done)**
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- Fact gathering policy finer grained **(done)**
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- Make ``setup.py``/``facts`` more pluggable **(done)**
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- Improve testing of ``setup.py``/``facts.py`` **(done)**
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- Namespacing fact variables (via a config option) implemented in ansible/ansible PR `#18445 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/18445>`_. **(done)**
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Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#17 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/17>`_.
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PluginLoader
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**(pushed out to future release)**
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- Over the past couple releases we've had some thoughts about how PluginLoader might be better structured
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- Load the loaders via an initialization function(), not when importing
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the module. (stretch goal, doesn't impact the CLI)
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- Separate duties of ``PluginLoader`` from ``PluginFinder``. Most plugins need
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both but Modules and Module_utils only need a PluginFinder
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- Write different ``PluginFinder`` subclasses for module_utils and perhaps
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Modules. Most Plugin types have a flattened namespace and are single
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python files. Modules include code that is not written in python.
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Module_utils are vastly different from the other Plugins as they
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maintain a hierarchical namespace and are multi-file.
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- Potentially split module_utils loader for python from module_utils
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loader for powershell. Currently we only support generic module_utils
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for python modules. The powershell modules always include a single,
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hardcoded powershell module_utils file. If we add generic module_utils
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for powershell, we'll need to decide how to organize the code.
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Static Loop Keyword
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- Deprecate (not on standard deprecation cycle) ``with_`` in favor of ``loop:``
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- This ``loop:`` will take only a list
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- Remove complexity from loops, lookups are still available to users
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- Less confusing having a static directive vs a one that is dynamic depending on plugins loaded.
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Vault
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- Support for multiple vault passwords. PR in ansible/ansible `#22756 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22756>`_
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- Each decrypted item should know which secret to request
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- Support requesting credentials (password prompt) as callbacks
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- Ability to open and edit file with encrypted vars deencrypted, and encrypt/format on save
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Globalize Callbacks
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**(pushed out to future release)**
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- Make send_callback available to other code that cannot use it.
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- Would allow for ‘full formatting’ of output (see JSON callback)
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- Fixes static ‘include’ display problem
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Plugins
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- Allow plugins to have embedded docs (like modules) **(done)**
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- Update ansible-doc and website to generate docs from these ansible/ansible PR `#22796 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22796>`_. **(ansible-doc working, todo:website)**
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Group Priorities
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**(done)**
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- Start using existing group priority variable to sort/merge group vars
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- Implementation for this in ansible/ansible PR `#22580 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22580>`_.
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- Documentation of group priority variable
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Runtime Check on Modules for Blacklisting
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**(pushed out to future release)**
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- Filter on things like "supported_by" in module metadata
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- Provide users with an option of "warning, error or allow/ignore"
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- Configurable via ansible.cfg and environment variable
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Disambiguate Includes
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- Create import_x for ‘static includes’ (import_task, import_play, import_role)
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- Any directives are applied to the ‘imported’ tasks
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- Create include_x for ‘dynamic includes’ (include_task, include_role)
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- Any directives apply to the ‘include’ itself
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Windows
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- New PS/.NET module API
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- Windows Nano Server support
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- Windows module_utils pluginloader
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- Refactor duplicated module code into new module_utils files
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- Evaluate #Requires directives (existing and new: PS version, OS version, etc)
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- Improve module debug support/persistence
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- Explore official DSC support
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- Explore module intermediate output
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- Explore Powershell module unit testing
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- Explore JEA support (stretch)
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- Extended become support with network/service/batch logon types
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- Module updates
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- Split "Windows" category into multiple subs
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- Domain user/group management modules
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- win_mapped_drive module
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- win_hotfix
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- win_updates rewrite to require become
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- win_package changes required to deprecate win_msi
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- win_copy re-write
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AWS
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- Focus on pull requests for various modules
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- Triage existing merges for modules
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- Module work
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- elb-target-groups
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- alb*
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- ecs
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- Data Pipelines
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- VPN
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- DirectConnect
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Azure
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- Expose endpoint overrides
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- Reformat/document module output to collapse internal API structures and surface important data (eg, public IPs, NICs, data disks)
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- Add load balancer module
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- Add Azure Functions module
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Google Cloud Platform
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- New Module: DataProc
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- Support for Cross-Region HTTP Load Balancing
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- New Module: GKE
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Network Roadmap
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- Removal of ``*_template`` modules
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- Distributed Continuous Integration Infrastructure
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- RPC Connection Plugin
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- Module Work
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- Declarative intent modules
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- OpenVSwitch
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- Minimal Viable Platform Agnostic Modules
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Contributor Quality of Life
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- All Core and Curated modules will work towards having unit testing.
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- More bot improvements!
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- Test Infrastructure changes
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- Shippable + Bot Integration
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- Provide verified test results to the bot from Shippable so the bot can comment on PRs with CI failures.
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- Enable the bot to mark PRs with ``ci_verified`` if all CI failures are verified.
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- Windows Server 2016 Integration Tests
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- Restore Windows Server 2016 integration tests on Shippable.
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- Originally enabled during the 2.3 release cycle, but later disabled due to intermittent WinRM issues.
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- Depends on resolution of WinRM connection issues.
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- Windows Server Nano Integration Tests
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- Add support to ansible-core-ci for Windows Server 2016 Nano and enable on Shippable.
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- This will use a subset of the existing Windows integration tests.
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- Depends on resolution of WinRM connection issues.
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- Windows + Python 3 Tests
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- Run basic Windows tests using Python 3 as the controller.
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- Depends on resolution of WinRM Python 3 issues.
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- Cloud Integration Tests
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- Run existing cloud integration tests for AWS, Azure and GCP as part of CI.
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- Tests to be run only on cloud module (and module_utils) PRs and merges for the relevant cloud provider.
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- Test Reliability
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- Further improve test reliability to reduce false positives on Shippable.
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- This continues work from the 2.3 release cycle.
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- Static Code Analysis
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- Further expand the scope and coverage of static analysis.
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- This continues work from the 2.3 release cycle.
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