'#' and ';' are both valid comment chars for sysctl.conf files
according to the 'man sysctl.conf':
"Lines which begin with a # or ; are considered comments and ignored."
Fixes#20569
* removes unused code
* removes module_utils/local.py
* removes plugins/action/network.py
* removes action_handler from connection plugins
* removes code to use action_handler in task_executor
* updates action plugins to subclass from normal
The f5 module utils were using a file name that appeared to
conflict with the f5 python SDK's namespace. This patch just changes
the name of the included class to be f5_utils to avoid the issue
of namespace collisions
This completes the refactor of the nxos modules to use the persistent
connection. It also updates all of the nxos modules to use the
new connection module and preserves use of nxapi as well.
* updates all iosxr modules to support persistent socket
* adds iosxr action plugin to connect to device
* adds exec_command() to iosxr shared module
* fixes iosxr_config and iosxr_template local action
* update all unit test cases
* adds base test module for iosxr module testing
Don't try to create tags on a vpc that you've just removed.
Avoids
```
"msg": "An error occurred (InvalidParameterValue) when calling the CreateTags operation: You must specify one or more tags to create"
```
Although not quite sure why the `create_tags` was being called
as `module.params.get('tags')` *should* have returned `None`.
Move to using a requirements.txt to install the python packages.
This makes it easy to keep the documentation and actual package
dependencies in sync.
Fixes#18453
I plan on converting most all f5 modules to use the rest api, so
this is part of that conversion. it adds a factory method to get
the various rest management root apis provided in the f5 sdk
* Refactor E-Series AMG module to use module_utils
Refactor the NetApp E-Series module to utlize the common module_utils
and doc_fragments.
* Resolve a PEP8 issue with a missing newline
* Resolve compatibility issue with json import
* removes connection functions refactored into connection
* updates ComplexDict and ComplexList objects to use with AnsibleModule
* updates modules to add new argument to ComplexList & ComplexDict
* fixes issue with load_provider() not checking for an existing key
* adds updates to eos_config results key
* lots of minor syntax fixes in eos shared module
* adds eos_argument_spec to eos_eapi
fixes#21402
* Marks metadata files as outdated
Eliminates time records of the metadata and mirrorlists download
for each repository. This forces yum to revalidate the cache for
each repository the next time it is used.
* Command arguments in two separate strings to be compatible if run_command implementation changes. Doc explains a little better what is that parameter doing
