* docker_container: add working_dir (fixes#20044)
Added a working directory option that will get passed with the other
docker container parameters. This is optional and addresses feature
request #20044.
* apk: Allow update and upgrade in same task
* apk: Add repository option
* apk: Add available option
* apk: Add stdout and stderr output where possible
* apk: Add packages return with list of changed packages
* Add doc for password
* Add example to change user password
* Add dot at the end of the doc for password
* Add disclaimer in documentation for password
* Correct provider option name in description
* eos python3 changes
* changes to convert response from byte to text
* Add dellos6 python3 changes
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
* Fix py3 prompt issue for invalid show command
* Fix review comments
* Add generic fix for error prompt in py3
* Fix CI issue
* Fix network_cli unit test failure
* Added timeout to jenkins_script POST request
The timeout value is passed to fetch_url to allow a custom timeout
bigger than the predefined 10 seconds.
* Added version, removed no_log
* Fix expect for python 3
- Change generator next to python 3 compatible
- Added tests for expect
* Add pexpect to integration.txt
- add pexpect library to requirements for integration tests
* Use ansible_python_interpreter in integration tests for expect
* Use double-quotes for expect integration tests
* Cast user input to string for expect integration tests
* Cast user input to string earlier in expect integration tests
* Use ansible.module_utils.six.moves input for expect integration tests
* Fix yamllint errors in the expect test
* Use cat to trigger timeout for expect integration tests
* Use realpath filter in expect integration tests
* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample
- split classes, moved out of init
- extra debug statements
- allow mulitple invenotry files
- dont add hosts more than once
- simplified host vars
- since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
- ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
- centralized localhost handling
- added plugin docs
- leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
- moved noop vars plugin
- added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
- fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
- grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
- playbook_dir allways full path
- use bytes for file operations
- better handling of empty/null sources
- added test target that skips networking modules
- now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
- centralized play setup repeat code
- updated changelog with inv features
- asperioribus verbis spatium album
- fixed dataloader to new sig
- made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
- nicer error msgs
- fixed undeclared group detection
- fixed 'ungrouping'
- docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
- made behaviour of var merge a toggle
- made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
- updated add_host/group from strategy
- made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
- added advanced_host_list as example variation
- refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
- optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
- removed unused code and tests
- added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
- added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
- vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
- require yaml extension for yaml
- fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
- fix py3 issues
- added --inventory as clearer option
- return name when stringifying host objects
- ajdust checks to code moving
* reworked vars and vars precedence
- vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
- precedence for host vars is now configurable
- vars_plugins been reworked
- removed unused vars cache
- removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
- cleaned up tests
- fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
- removed version added notation to please rst check
- inventory in config relative to config
- ensures full paths on passed inventories
* implicit localhost connection local
Reads the directory_mode param as 'raw' type to mirror the same behavior as mode.
This'll cause non-quoted values to be represented as an int, rather than a str.
Covered by 'assert recursive copied directories mode' test.
Fixes#24202
* nxos_evpn_global refactor
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* ansibot told me to do this
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* Add nxos changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
* Fix CI issues
* Fix review comment
Replace surrogate_or_strict with
surrogate_then_replace as per review
comment os PR #24601
* nxos_hsrp fix
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* unit test nxos_hsrp
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* ansibot told me to do this
* revert apply_key_map and simplify method
Fix allows user to specify username and password for
using github_release to perform various operations
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
* Lookup credential id and pass in credential rather than scm_credential
* Change the excepting handling to catch missing credentials
* Make error messages for not found lookups more useful
* add ce_vlan.py
* metadata_version update
* fix review issues
* Update ce_vlan.py
* fix check issue
required_if not work well when the option value is "not None"
* Revert to using url_map internal to the module to allow parameter generation to work. module parameter is still url_map_name.
* [GCP] Cross Region Load Balancer Integration Test
* [GCP] Healthcheck module
* fix return YAML block
* removed update_ return value; removed python26 check; typos and docs updates
* doc fix
* Updated int test for no-update conditions
* added filter_gcp_fields test
* fixed bug in update where dictionary wasn't built correctly and port was not being set.
* added default values to documentation block
Tags should retain case, and should not be snake cased.
Easiest way to do this is to snake before converting tag
list as while that affects the keys of the boto3 tag lists,
it doesn't affect the values. Need to use `tag_value_key_name`
and `tag_name_key_name` following recent change to
`boto3_tag_list_to_ansible_dict`, which used to handle both
`key`/`Key` and `value`/`Value`
Fix converts commit_timeout to string as
Elementree.SubElement requires text as string.
Fixes#24611
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
When only looking at the failed state of the TaskResult, certain failures
cause the linear strategy to fail out sooner than it should and not execute
the always portion of blocks.
Fixes#24301
* Remove organization field from the tower_user module re: issue #24510
* Fix trailing spaces.
* Fixes for Shippable errors, pep8
* Remove a random inserted space.
* Add ios changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
pep8 fixes
* Fix CI issues
* Fix review comment
* fix eni lookup logic to update them only when univocally specified (Fixes#19972)
remove redundant eni lookup
* Rename the univocally_find_eni method to uniquely_find_eni
* Idempotency logic minor fixes
* Fixing pep8 reported issues
* Adding a required_together constraint for instance_id and device_index
* Fix ec2_eni private_ip_address matching
* Adding an example of matching via subnet_id and private_ip_address
* Removing the required_together and subnet_id constraints
* Addding some notes to explain the module assumptions
* Implementing Ryan's wording proposal
remove cloudtrail.py from legacy-files as it passes pep8 tests now
update return values to use snake case per coding guidelines
update boto3 exception handling to use method outlined in coding guidelines
update parameter spec and return value code per PR code review
* Add sros changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
Code cleanup
pep8 fixes
* Fix CI issue
* Add vyos changes for Python3
Make `execute_command` arguments and its
return value complaint to PY3 changes
made in PR #24431
pep8 fixes
* Fix CI issues
In _process_pending_results (strategy/__init__.py), we were using the delegate_to
field directly from the original task, which was not being templated correctly.
As an alternate to #23599, this patch instead pulls the host name out of the delegated
vars passed back in the task result dictionary to avoid having to re-template things.
Fixes#23599Fixes#20508
Ensure newly created NAT gateways get converted to snake dict
Remove custom code, and associated test, for generating snake
dict and use `camel_dict_to_snake_dict`
Make use of `required_if` rather than bespoke parameter checks
Remove ec2_vpc_nat_gateway from pep8 legacy files list
If a lambda exists but does not have a VPC configuration,
add the VPC configuration when it's present in the ansible
parameters.
Prior to this change, setting VPC configuration on a lambda
that did not have any VPC configuration would ignore that config.
* Fixes#24251 save config only if it is changed
Save to startup configuration only when it is different
from running configuration.
* Fix unit test issue
* vmware_guest: Add support for Linked Clones
* Resolve PEP8 Issues
* Change snapshot_name to snapshot_src
* Add additional option 'snapshot_linked' to specify whether to use a linked clone or not
* Changed snapshot_linked parameter to "linked_clone"
* Remove unnecessary conditional
We have a protection against a user setting use_default_subnetpool in
their playbook - but then we sure do pass the kwarg anyway. Maybe let's
not do that.
With newer versions of ansible, module arguments are assumed to
be strings unless otherwise specified. Our 'facts' argument is
expected to be a dictionary, so tell ansible that.
Without this, the argument will arrive as a string and be written
to the facter file inside string quotes. Facter will produce the
following error:
undefined method `each' for #<String:0x000000016ee640>
This was originally fixed and found in the Ansible Puppet role which
is maintained by the OpenStack infrastructure team.
8d0f0bfd0a
On Python3 and Python2 use pickle slightly differently so we need to be
explicit about some things.
If pickles could be shared between python2 and python3, as in
ansible-connection and the pickle cache, we need to specify the protocol
to use when dumping and the encoding to use for byte strings when
loading.
The dumping protocol needs to be no higher than 2 as python-2 only
supports up to protocol 2. The encoding should usually be 'bytes' so
that python2 str type becomes python3 bytes type. However, doing this
means that we must make sure that the objects being serialized properly
make their strings into text strings except when they're supposed to be
bytes. If strings are improperly byte strings, they may cause
tracebacks on the receiving end
Fix for persistent connection plugin on Python3. Note that fixes are also needed to each terminal plugin. This PR only fixes the ios terminal (as proof that this approach is workable.) Future PRs can address the other terminal types.
* On Python3, pickle needs to work with byte strings, not text strings.
* Set the pickle protocol version to 0 because we're using a pty to feed data to the connection plugin. A pty can't have control characters. So we have to send ascii only. That means
only using protocol=0 for pickling the data.
* ansible-connection isn't being used with py3 in the bug but it needs
several changes to work with python3.
* In python3, closing the pty too early causes no data to be sent. So
leave stdin open until after we finish with the ansible-connection
process.
* Fix typo using traceback.format_exc()
* Cleanup unnecessary StringIO, BytesIO, and to_bytes calls
* Modify the network_cli and terminal plugins for py3 compat. Lots of mixing of text and byte strings that needs to be straightened out to be compatible with python3
* Documentation for the bytes<=>text strategy for terminal plugins
* Update unittests for more bytes-oriented internals
Fixes#24355
* New module fortios_address_group
* Fix issue when fortigate don't contain any address group
* Add alias & change member from str to list type
* Fix pep8
* Fix aliases format in doc
* Fix pep8
* Remove duplicate arg spec with module_utils/fortios.py
* Change string format for better compat + better exception catching + cosmetic changes
* Use set, specify exception, RE pattern one time...
* fix pep8
* Improving of nxos_ip_interface module
Added features:
* Route tags for an IP address at interface level with 'tag' option
* Support of IPv4 secondary addresses if option 'allow_secondary' is
true (false by default). If option 'allow_secondary' is true primary
IPv4 address will be replaced
All features support NXAPI and CLI transport, but only with text/raw
output. Currently not possible to get route tags for secondary IPv4/IPv6
addresses from JSON output.
Other changes:
* Module return state 'changed' only when configuration commands were
executed
* Module result includes multiple prefixes if IPv4 addresses were
found
* Fix PEP8 issues
* Addition fix of PEP8 issues
* Remove unused variable from main()
* Fix "proposed" sample in RETURN variable
* Fix "existing" sample in RETURN variable
* Update RETURN variable
Add 'secondary' for every element of 'addresses' list.
* Restore old version number
* Added exception when ipaddress module is imported
* DOCUMENTATION string was updated
* Added 'version_added' for new features
* Added 'requirements' for module
* Added compatibility with latest commit in devel branch
* DOCUMENTATION was fixed
* Improve changes of route tag for existing ip addresses
* Added compatibility with core code
* Fixed mistypes in the DOCUMENTATION variable
* argument_spec fixed
allow_secondary argument type was changed according to allowed choices.
Template can take a directory as the destination. When that's the case,
we need to diff between the source and the file inside of the directory.
That happened when the directory was specified with a trailing slash but
not when it was specified on its own. This change fixes that.
Fixes#24413
For playbook base objects, when dumping attributes via dump_attrs() an
attribute like loop_control is a class. Using the default serialization
for these is slow and consumes a lot of memory. Since LoopControl is also
based on the Base class, we can use serialize() instead and save a lot of
resources.
This also adds a from_attrs() complimentary method to nicely turn the
dumped attrs back into proper field attributes.
Fixes#23579
* [GCP] UrlMap module
This module provides support for UrlMaps on Google Cloud Platform. UrlMaps allow users to segment requests by hostname and path and direct those requests to Backend Services.
UrlMaps are a powerful and necessary part of HTTP(S) Global Load Balancing on Google Cloud Platform.
UrlMap takes advantage of the python-api so the appropriate infrastructure has been added to module_utils.
More about UrlMaps can be found at:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/url-map
UrlMap API:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/latest/
Google Cloud Platform HTTP(S) Cross-Region Load Balancer:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/
* updated documentation, remmoved parens
* fixed tabs
* Create netconf_config.py
To support new attribute 'src' for the netconf_config module.
Cross-check with #24323
* Update netconf_config.py
* Update netconf_config.py
* switch to boto3 and add support for application ELBs with target groups.
* use py23 compatible dict iterator.
* removing commented out fail_json calls
utilize sets to simplify logic
remove setting a redundant variable
add bounds checking in two places
add AWSRetry decorator - do we want this for other functions too?
change xrange to range so python3 doesn't fail
remove sorting lists of dicts; in python2 this returns None, in python3 this fails
* remove error variable from traceback.format_exc
* Remove boto2-style calls brought in by rebase
Old boto-style calls to `as_group` attributes break in boto3
Also remove module from legacy-PEP8 list
* Add parameter to target_group_arn option
* Fix HAS_BOTO3 check
* use tags.items() instead of iteritems
* import botocore
* Fixed bugs in deleting autoscaling groups
* make changes in deleting autoscaling groups pep8
* more pep8
* fix version
* fix bugs so local integration tests run
* fix launch config check
* reflect changed status for ASG updates
* Fix existing exception handling and use traceback.
Fix imports
* line length
* Fix notification setup
* Fix mutually exclusive arguments
Only one of the AvailabilityZones and VPCZoneIdentifier arguments should be provided to the CreateAutoScalingGroup call.
* Allow desired_capacity, min_size, max_size, launch_config_name to be derived from the existing ASG if not specified
Remove code updating dict after ASG already uses it
* Add new helper function for comparing AWS tag key pair dicts. Also modify boto3_tag_list_to_ansible_dict function to be more generic when looking for key names because AWS sometimes uses 'Key', sometimes 'TagKey' and who knows what the future holds! Fixed modules to work with changes.
* Review changes
* Add some more doc to GUIDELINES for tags and fix var name for snaked values in ec2_group_facts
* nxos_vrf_af fix and unit test
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* ansibot told me to do this
* use sorted() as the test list elements differ in order for python2.x and 3.x
* fixes nxos_evpn_vni
Signed-off-by: Trishna Guha <trishnaguha17@gmail.com>
* fixes pep8 issue and syntax error
* ansibot tole me to do this
* Unit test
* win_psexec: Enable -nobanner option by default
PR also includes:
- Option `nobanner:` to remove this flag
- Improvements to Examples
- Improvement to Return Value
- Add types to all parameters now
- Add (limited) integration tests
* Move sysinternals into C:\Windows\Temp
* Support auto_remove in docker_container
* Fail if not docker>=2 and auto_remove=True, don't set auto_remove in host_config if not docker>=2
* Make quoting more readable in ansible errors
* allow elb scheme to be updated by restarting the resource
use ensure_gone and require wait option
* fix pep8
* fix yaml
* requested changes
* fix fail_json
Simplified the logic, and fix the issue of having a nested list as
entry.
Also indicate that we deliberately want to retain $null values
(and i.e. do not want them to be turned into a boolean).
Previously, this module could throw the following error message:
NameError: global name 'current_roles_attrs' is not defined
The referencing key should also match the name of the column, which is
rolvaliduntil, not rol_valid_until
* WIP file_mode
* WIP
* Add file_mode + integration tests
* fix pep8
* Update doc fragments
Create mutualy_exclusive param
Fix yamllint problem in tests
* Add aliases file + main playbook for fortios
* Install pyfg before running tests
* Install pyfg before running tests in role
* Remove pre_task as it's done in roles
* Force pyFG minimal version for python3
* role_path not role_dir :(
* Change requirements
* Specify Error type when error on import
* Bug in pygf library with python 2.5 (PR is waiting https://github.com/spotify/pyfg/pull/19)
* Bad requirement format
* still bad format -_-'
* remove test/integration/fortios.py (auto generated by tests)
missing new lines at end of file
* pyFG is now fixed in 0.50
Fix adds check if app_key and api_key provided by
user is correct or not. If this combination is wrong
then fail with appropriate error message given by
Datadog server
Fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24325
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
CVE-2017-7481
Lookup returns wrap the result in unsafe, however when used through the
standard templar engine, this does not result in the jinja2 environment being
marked as unsafe as a whole. This means the lookup result looses the unsafe
protection and may become simple unicode strings, which can result in bad
things being re-templated.
This also adds a global lookup param and cfg options for lookups to allow
unsafe returns, so users can force the previous (insecure) behavior.
Output of `yum check-update` can contain lines with long package names and long
repository label names, which will be broken into multiple lines, which need to
be sanitized. The solution to this has been fixed and refactored in 2.3 in form
of parse_check_update(), but it still contains subtle bug, which makes such
multi-lines invisible to later logic (such packages aren't included in
parse_check_update()) output. The problem is caused by using '\1' in re.sub(),
instead of proper r'\1', which literally puts unicode symbol \1 into resulting
output.
ssh-keyscan isn't very verbose about errors. Give the user whatever
information we have available even if it isn't much. At least they will
know how we were running ssh-keyscan and why there's an error now.
Fixes#19440
Use the default repr of AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode.data instead
of a custom one, since jinja templating ends up using the repr()
results.
Fixes#23846, #24175
os_quota checks the current quotas for compute, network and volume
services and fails when no volume service is found in the catalog.
Since openstack test deployments without volume services are common
os_quota shouldn't fail if such service is missing.
Fixes#23085
Signed-off-by: Alberto Murillo Silva <alberto.murillo.silva@intel.com>
This allow users to write better playbooks by replacing
- shell: dnf autoremove -y
with
- dnf: autoremove=yes
Fixes#18815
Signed-off-by: Alberto Murillo Silva <alberto.murillo.silva@intel.com>
Fix adds correct warning after deleting Windows User.
Also, adds modular function to get group
Fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24190
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
* ansible-doc -s is supposed to output a sample snippet of how you could
add the module into a playbook. These changes update the style:
* Use yaml mappings instead of key=value
* Use the module name directly instead of action: modulename
* Fixes a bug when displaying option descritpions which are yaml strings
instead of lists.
This fixes in code the bad formatting reported in #24201
Using github_issue module, user can retrive status of issue
listed on Github repository and depending upon status takes
various actions e.g., workarounds and downloading patches.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
When unittesting, the framework creates a pipes module that is picked up
by the basic module_utils test. Switch to using shlex_quote as that is
the right thing to use for portability anyway.
* Added new common argument api_version for all Avi modules
* Updated dependency for the new modules to use avi sdk 17.1 and above
* Updated Avi 17.1.1 modules with descriptions and moddule dependencies
* Updated version_added for new options
This fix adds a module option `validate_certs' to check
self-signed certificate of LDAP server.
Fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24009
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
This fix makes it so that the module works as expected when
`server_hostname` is provided. It was being silently ignored
previously. I suppose this may also fix similar behavior with
`server_insecure`, but I did not check that explicitly.
* Fix netconf port validation and minor doc change
Add check to confirm if `validate_*` funcion is
callable.
Add `config_format` in `junos_facts` documentation
* Fix review comments
- Use `fail_json` for `get_all_load_balancers` unhandled exception.
- Do not mask error message on failure of `enable_zones`.
- Do not mask error message on failure of `disable_zones`.
Also added/removed blank lines to improve PEP 8 compliance.
If a bridge does not have a fail mode set, it returns nothing, i.e.
empty string.
This causes a failure when doing the want vs have compare in plays
where the fail-mode is missing, as we compare "" vs None respectively.
If a bridge does not have external_ids, ovs-vsctl returns '{}'.
This causes issues on the current want vs have comparison in cases
where the play does not define external_ids, as the comparison
is None vs '{}'.
* fix documentation and correct exception handling
* follow AWS exception guidelines
* fix parameter_group_family req; only needed when creating cache parameter group
make pep8 and remove from legacy files
* Added Composer Command global
Added a parameter to run composer commands globally. The `working_dir`
parameter is only required if `global_command` is `False`.
Fixes#24052
* Added Composer Command global
Added a parameter to run composer commands globally. The `working_dir`
parameter is only required if `global_command` is `False`.
Fixes#24052
The timeout for gathering facts needs to be settable from three places
(highest precedence to lowest):
* programmatically
* ansible.cfg (equivalent to the user specifying it explicitly when
calling setup)
* from the default value
The code was changed in b4bd6c80de to
allow programmatically and the default value to work correctly but
setting via ansible.cfg/parameter was broken.
This change should fix setting via ansible.cfg and adds unittests for
all three cases
Fixes#23753
ClearLinux has changed its pretty name in os-release file
from: 'Clear Linux Software for Intel Architecture'
to: 'Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture'
This patch makes the SEARCH_STRING 'Clear Linux' rather than
the full name to make it compatible with the old and new name.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Murillo Silva <alberto.murillo.silva@intel.com>
template/__init__.py imported unsafe_proxy from vars which caused
vars/__init__.py to load. vars/__init__.py needed template/__init__.py
which caused issues. Loading unsafe_proxy from another location fixes
that.
Just after release of 2.0.0 (in 2.0.0.1) we had a change to the API of
callbacks without bumping the API version. We added the playbook to the
arguments passed to the callbacks.
This wasn't in the Tower callback at the time. In order to prevent
breaking that callback we added a temporary hack to inspect the
callback's API to decide if we needed to call it with arguments or not.
We scheduled the hack for removal in January 2017. Since that's now
past, removing the hack.
Change signed off by matburt on the Tower side.
Puppet modules are not always installed in the default location
(i.e, /etc/puppet/modules) so it is useful to be able to specify
an alternate location.
Fixes issue [#24078](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24078)
Resource pools are retrieved from VSphere regardless of the state of the `resource_pool` parameter. During this process, each retrieved Resource Pool is checked for the `parent` attribute, and if it exists, the currently-scoped parent object is compared against the Resource Pool's parent object. The method doing the check, however, `assert`s that the parent object is not `None`. In some cases, a Resource Pool will have the `parent` attr, but that `parent` object will be `None`, causing the `assert` to fail.
This should avoid that. :-)
* Add check_mode to get_url that does a HEAD request to make sure the URL exists, but doesn't write the real file
* Add info about new --check behavior to docs. Add tests for the new behavior. Populate res_args with the info the tests are looking for.
* Add trailing comma
* Change nonexistent test URL to http://{{httpbin_host}/DOESNOTEXIST. Fix spacing while I'm at it
* Further spacing cleanup
* State that this functionality is in Ansible 2.4+
* Split modules/network into two parts
Given the dedicated team we we have working on Ansible Networking a
clearer split is needed between Networking modules and "things that
happen to use the network"
* nmcli to net_tools
* nmcli moved
* Run `save` before exiting config mode.
* Fix unit tests for `save`
* Allow `save` to be on its own again and introspect success
* Introspecting `compare running` makes this a lot harder.
Move `save` tests to integration tests
Ok, so for openvswitch_db in particular we just return one command
but in the sake of consistency and code re-use, let's return a list
of "commands", even if it's just one.
