116 lines
5.5 KiB
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116 lines
5.5 KiB
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Ansible Changes By Release
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0.5 "Amsterdam" ------- July XX, 2012
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* Service module gets more accurate service states when running with upstart
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* Jinja2 usage in playbooks (not templates), reinstated, supports %include directive
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* support for --connection ssh (supports Kerberos, bastion hosts, etc), requires ControlMaster
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* misc tracebacks replaced with error messages
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* various API/internals refactoring
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* vars can be built from other variables
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* support for exclusion of hosts/groups with "!groupname"
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* various changes to support md5 tool differences for FreeBSD nodes & OS X clients
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* "unparseable" command output shows in command output for easier debugging
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* mktemp is no longer required on remotes (not available on BSD)
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* support for older versions of python-apt in the apt module
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* a new "assemble" module, for constructing files from pieces of files (inspired by Puppet "fragments" idiom)
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* ability to override most default values with ANSIBLE_FOO environment variables
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* --module-path parameter can support multiple directories seperated with the OS path seperator
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* with_items can take a variable of type list
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* ansible_python_interpreter variable available for systems with more than one Python
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* BIOS and VMware "fact" upgrades
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* cowsay is used by ansible-playbook if installed to improve output legibility (try installing it)
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* authorized_key module
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* SELinux facts now sourced from the python selinux library
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0.4 "Unchained" ------- May 23, 2012
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Internals/Core
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* internal inventory API now more object oriented, parsers decoupled
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* async handling improvements
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* misc fixes for running ansible on OS X (overlord only)
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* sudo improvements, now works much more smoothly
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* sudo to a particular user with -U/--sudo-user, or using 'sudo_user: foo' in a playbook
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* --private-key CLI option to work with pem files
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Inventory
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* can use -i host1,host2,host3:port to specify hosts not in inventory (replaces --override-hosts)
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* ansible INI style format can do groups of groups [groupname:children] and group vars [groupname:vars]
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* groups and users module takes an optional system=yes|no on creation (default no)
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* list of hosts in playbooks can be expressed as a YAML list in addition to ; delimited
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Playbooks
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* variables can be replaced like ${foo.nested_hash_key.nested_subkey[array_index]}
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* unicode now ok in templates (assumes utf8)
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* able to pass host specifier or group name in to "hosts:" with --extra-vars
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* ansible-pull script and example playbook (extreme scaling, remediation)
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* inventory_hostname variable available that contains the value of the host as ansible knows it
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* variables in the 'all' section can be used to define other variables based on those values
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* 'group_names' is now a variable made available to templates
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* first_available_file feature, see selective_file_sources.yml in examples/playbooks for info
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* --extra-vars="a=2 b=3" etc, now available to inject parameters into playbooks from CLI
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Incompatible Changes
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* jinja2 is only usable in templates, not playbooks, use $foo instead
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* --override-hosts removed, can use -i with comma notation (-i "ahost,bhost")
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* modules can no longer include stderr output (paramiko limitation from sudo)
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Module Changes
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* tweaks to SELinux implementation for file module
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* fixes for yum module corner cases on EL5
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* file module now correctly returns the mode in octal
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* fix for symlink handling in the file module
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* service takes an enable=yes|no which works with chkconfig or updates-rc.d as appropriate
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* service module works better on Ubuntu
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* git module now does resets and such to work more smoothly on updates
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* modules all now log to syslog
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* enabled=yes|no on a service can be used to toggle chkconfig & updates-rc.d states
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* git module supports branch=
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* service fixes to better detect status using return codes of the service script
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* custom facts provided by the setup module mean no dependency on Ruby, facter, or ohai
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* service now has a state=reloaded
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* raw module for bootstrapping and talking to routers w/o Python, etc
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Misc Bugfixes
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* fixes for variable parsing in only_if lines
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* misc fixes to key=value parsing
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* variables with mixed case now legal
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* fix to internals of hacking/test-module development script
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0.3 "Baluchitherium" -- April 23, 2012
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* Packaging for Debian, Gentoo, and Arch
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* Improvements to the apt and yum modules
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* A virt module
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* SELinux support for the file module
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* Ability to use facts from other systems in templates (aka exported
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resources like support)
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* Built in Ansible facts so you don't need ohai, facter, or Ruby
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* tempdir selections that work with noexec mounted /tmp
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* templates happen locally, not remotely, so no dependency on
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python-jinja2 for remote computers
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* advanced inventory format in YAML allows more control over variables
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per host and per group
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* variables in playbooks can be structured/nested versus just a flat namespace
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* manpage upgrades (docs)
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* various bugfixes
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* can specify a default --user for playbooks rather than specifying it
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in the playbook file
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* able to specify ansible port in ansible host file (see docs)
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* refactored Inventory API to make it easier to write scripts using Ansible
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* looping capability for playbooks (with_items)
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* support for using sudo with a password
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* module arguments can be unicode
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* A local connection type, --connection=local, for use with cron or
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in kickstarts
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* better module debugging with -D
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* fetch module for pulling in files from remote hosts
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* command task supports creates=foo for idempotent semantics, won't
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run if file foo already exists
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0.0.2 and 0.0.1
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* Initial stages of project
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