- fixed issue with permissions being incorrect on fireball/accelerate keys when the umask setting was too loose.
1.4.4 "Could This Be Magic" - January 06, 2014
- Fixed issue with newer versions of pip not having --use-mirrors
1.4.3 "Could This Be Magic?" - December 20, 2013
- Fixed role_path parsing from ansible.cfg
- Fixed default role templates
1.4.2 "Could This Be Magic" - December 18, 2013
- Fixed a few bugs related to unicode
- Fixed errors in the ssh connection method with large data returns
- Miscellaneous fixes for a few modules
- Add the ansible-galaxy command
1.4.1 "Could This Be Magic" - November 27, 2013
- Misc fix updates
1.4 "Could This Be Magic" - November 21, 2013
Highlighted new features:
* Added do-until feature, which can be used to retry a failed task a specified number of times with a delay in-between the retries.
* Added failed_when option for tasks, which can be used to specify logical statements that make it easier to determine when a task has failed, or to make it easier to ignore certain non-zero return codes for some commands.
* Added the "subelement" lookup plugin, which allows iteration of the keys of a dictionary or items in a list.
* Added the capability to use either paramiko or ssh for the inital setup connection of an accelerated playbook.
* Automatically provide advice on common parser errors users encounter.
* Deprecation warnings are now shown for legacy features: when_integer/etc, only_if, include+with_items, etc. Can be disabled in ansible.cfg
* The system will now provide helpful tips around possible YAML syntax errors increasing ease of use for new users.
* warnings are now shown for using {{ foo }} in loops and conditionals, and suggest leaving the variable expressions bare as per docs.
* The roles search path is now configurable in ansible.cfg. 'roles_path' in the config setting.
* Includes with parameters can now be done like roles for consistency: - { include: song.yml, year:1984, song:'jump' }
* The name of each role is now shown before each task if roles are being used
* Adds a "var=" option to the debug module for debugging variable data. "debug: var=hostvars['hostname']" and "debug: var=foo" are all valid syntax.
* Variables in {{ format }} can be used as references even if they are structured data
* Can force binding of accelerate to ipv6 ports.
* the apt module will auto-install python-apt if not present rather than requiring a manual installation
* the copy module is now recursive if the local 'src' parameter is a directory.
* syntax checks now scan included task and variable files as well as main files
* added inventory script for listing FreeBSD jails
* added md5 as a Jinja2 filter: {{ path | md5 }}
* added a fileglob filter that will return files matching a glob pattern. with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob"
* 'changed' filter returns whether a previous step was changed easier. when: registered_result | changed
* DOCS NEEDED: 'unique' and 'intersect' filters are added for dealing with lists.
* DOCS NEEDED: new lookup plugin added for etcd
* a 'func' connection type to help people migrating from func/certmaster.
Misc changes (all module additions/fixes may not listed):
* (docs pending) New features for accelerate mode: configurable timeouts and a keepalives for long running tasks.
* Added a `delimiter` field to the assemble module.
* Added `ansible_env` to the list of facts returned by the setup module.
* Added `state=touch` to the file module, which functions similarly to the command-line version of `touch`.
* Added a -vvvv level, which will show SSH client debugging information in the event of a failure.
* Includes now support the more standard syntax, similar to that of role includes and dependencies.
* Changed the `user:` parameter on plays to `remote_user:` to prevent confusion with the module of the same name. Still backwards compatible on play parameters.
* Added parameter to allow the fetch module to skip the md5 validation step ('validate_md5=false'). This is usefull when fetching files that are actively being written to, such as live log files.
* Inventory hosts are used in the order they appear in the inventory.
* in hosts: foo[2-5] type syntax, the iterators now are zero indexed and the last index is non-inclusive, to match Python standards.
* There is now a way for a callback plugin to disable itself. See osx_say example code for an example.
* Many bugfixes to modules of all types.
* Complex arguments now can be used with async tasks
* SSH ControlPath is now configurable in ansible.cfg. There is a limit to the lengths of these paths, see how to shorten them in ansible.cfg.
* md5sum support on AIX with csum.
* Extremely large documentation refactor into subchapters
* Added 'append_privs' option to the mysql_user module
* Can now update (temporarily change) host variables using the "add_host" module for existing hosts.
* Fixes for IPv6 addresses in inventory text files
* name of executable can be passed to pip/gem etc, for installing under *different* interpreters
* copy of ./hacking/env-setup added for fish users, ./hacking/env-setup.fish
* file module more tolerant of non-absolute paths in softlinks.
* miscellaneous fixes/upgrades to async polling logic.
* conditions on roles now pass to dependent roles
* ansible_sudo_pass can be set in a host variable if desired
* misc fixes for the pip an easy_install modules
* support for running handlers that have parameterized names based on role parameters
* added support for compressing MySQL dumps and extracting during import
* Boto version compatibility fixes for the EC2 inventory script
* in the EC2 inventory script, a group 'EC2' and 'RDS' contains EC2 and RDS hosts.
* umask is enforced by the cron module
* apt packages that are not-removed and not-upgraded do not count as changes
* the assemble module can now use src files from the local server and copy them over dynamically
* authorization code has been standardized between Amazon cloud modules
* the wait_for module can now also wait for files to exist or a regex string to exist in a file
* leading ranges are now allowed in ranged hostname patterns, ex: [000-250].example.com
* pager support added to ansible-doc (so it will auto-invoke less, etc)
* misc fixes to the cron module
* get_url module now understands content-disposition headers for deciding filenames
* it is possible to have subdirectories in between group_vars/ and host_vars/ and the final filename, like host_vars/rack42/asdf for the variables for host 'asdf'. The intermediate directories are ignored, and do not put a file in there twice.
1.3.4 "Top of the World" (reprise) - October 29, 2013
* Fixed a bug in the copy module, where a filename containing the string "raw" was handled incorrectly
* Fixed a bug in accelerate mode, where copying a zero-length file out would fail
1.3.3 "Top of the World" (reprise) - October 9, 2013
Additional fixes for accelerate mode.
1.3.2 "Top of the World" (reprise) - September 19th, 2013
Multiple accelerate mode fixes:
* Make packet reception less greedy, so multiple frames of data are not consumed by one call.
* Adding two timeout values (one for connection and one for data reception timeout).
* Added keepalive packets, so async mode is no longer required for long-running tasks.
* Modified accelerate daemon to use the verbose logging level of the ansible command that started it.
* Fixed bug where accelerate would not work in check-mode.
* Added a -vvvv level, which will show SSH client debugging information in the event of a failure.
* Fixed bug in apt_repository module where the repository cache was not being updated.
* Fixed bug where "too many open files" errors would be encountered due to pseudo TTY's not being closed properly.
1.3.1 "Top of the World" (reprise) - September 16th, 2013
Fixing a bug in accelerate mode whereby the gather_facts step would always be run via sudo regardless of the play settings.
1.3 "Top of the World" - September 13th, 2013
Highlighted new features:
* accelerated mode: An enhanced fireball mode that requires zero bootstrapping and fewer requirements plus adds capabilities like sudo commands.
* role defaults: Allows roles to define a set of variables at the lowest priority. These variables can be overridden by any other variable.
* new /etc/ansible/facts.d allows JSON or INI-style facts to be provided from the remote node, and supports executable fact programs in this dir. Files must end in *.fact.
* added the ability to make undefined template variables raise errors (see ansible.cfg)
* (DOCS PENDING) sudo: True/False and sudo_user: True/False can be set at include and role level
* added changed_when: (expression) which allows overriding whether a result is changed or not and can work with registered expressions
* --extra-vars can now take a file as input, e.g., "-e @filename" and can also be formatted as YAML
* external inventory scripts may now return host variables in one pass, which allows them to be much more efficient for large numbers of hosts
* if --forks exceeds the numbers of hosts, it will be automatically reduced. Set forks to 0 and you get "as many forks as I have hosts" out of the box.
* enabled error_on_undefined_vars by default, which will make errors in playbooks more obvious
* role dependencies -- one role can now pull in another, with parameters of its own.
* added the ability to have tasks execute even during a check run (always_run).
* added the ability to set the maximum failure percentage for a group of hosts.
New modules:
* notifications: datadog_event -- send data to datadog
* cloud: digital_ocean -- module for DigitalOcean provisioning that also includes inventory support
* cloud: rds -- Amazon Relational Database Service
* cloud: linode -- modules for Linode provisioning that also includes inventory support
* packaging: rpm_key -- adds or removes RPM signing keys
* packaging: apt_repository -- rewritten to remove dependencies
* monitoring: boundary_meter -- adds or removes boundary.com meters
* net_infrastructure: dnsmadeeasy - manipulate DNS Made Easy records
* files: xattr -- manages extended attributes on files
Misc changes:
* return 3 when there are hosts that were unreachable during a run
* the yum module now supports wildcard values for the enablerepo argument
* added an inventory script to pull host information from Zabbix
* async mode no longer allows with_* lookup plugins due to incompatibilities
* Added OpenRC support (Gentoo) to the service module
* ansible_ssh_user value is available to templates
* added placement_group parameter to ec2 module
* new sha256sum parameter added to get_url module for checksum validation
* search for mount binaries in system path and sbin vs assuming path
* allowed inventory file to be read from a pipe
* added Solaris distribution facts
* fixed bug along error path in quantum_network module
* user password update mode is controllable in user module now (at creation vs. every time)
* added check mode support to the OpenBSD package module
* Fix for MySQL 5.6 compatibility
* HP UX virtualization facts
* fixed some executable bits in git
* made rhn_register module compatible with EL5
* fix for setup module epoch time on Solaris
* sudo_user is now expanded later, allowing it to be set at inventory scope
* mongodb_user module changed to also support MongoDB 2.2
* new state=hard option added to the file module for hardlinks vs softlinks
* fixes to apt module purging option behavior
* fixes for device facts with multiple PCI domains
* added "with_inventory_hostnames" lookup plugin, which can take a pattern and loop over hostnames matching the pattern and is great for use with delegate_to and so on
* ec2 module supports adding to multiple security groups
* cloudformation module includes fixes for the error path, and the 'wait_for' parameter was removed
* added --only-if-changed to ansible-pull, which runs only if the repo has changes (not default)
* added 'mandatory', a Jinja2 filter that checks if a variable is defined: {{ foo|mandatory }}
* added support for multiple size formats to the lvol module
* timing reporting on wait_for module now includes the delay time
* IRC module can now send a server password
* "~" now expanded on each component of configured plugin paths
* fix for easy_install module when dealing with virtualenv
* rackspace module now explicitly indicates rackspace vs vanilla openstack
* add_host module does not report changed=True any longer
* explanatory error message when using fireball with sudo has been improved
* git module now automatically pulls down git submodules
* negated patterns do not require "all:!foo", you can just say "!foo" now to select all not foos
* fix for Debian services always reporting changed when toggling enablement bit
* roles files now tolerate files named 'main.yaml' and 'main' in addition to main.yml
* some help cleanup to command line flags on scripts
* force option reinstated for file module so it can create symlinks to non-existent files, etc.
* added termination support to ec2 module
* --ask-sudo-pass or --sudo-user does not enable all options to use sudo in ansible-playbook
* include/role conditionals are added ahead of task conditionals so they can short circuit properly
* added pipes.quote in various places so paths with spaces are better tolerated
* error handling while executing Jinja2 filters has been improved
* upgrades to atomic replacement logic when copying files across partitions/etc
* mysql user module can try to login before requiring explicit password
* various additional options added to supervisorctl module
* only add non unique parameter on group creation when required
* allow rabbitmq_plugin to specify a non-standard RabbitMQ path
* authentication fixes to keystone_user module
* added IAM role support to EC2 module
* fixes for OpenBSD package module to avoid shell expansion
* git module upgrades to allow --depth and --version to be used together
* new lookup plugin, "with_flattened"
* extra vars (-e) variables can be used in playbook include paths
* improved reporting for invalid sudo passwords
* improved reporting for inability to find a suitable tmp location
* require libselinux-python to perform file operations if SELinux is operational
* ZFS module fixes for byte display constants and handling paths with spaces
* setup module more tolerant of gathering facts against things it does not have permission to read
* can specify name=* state=latest to update all yum modules
* major speedups to the yum module for default cases
* ec2_facts module will now run in check mode
* sleep option on service module for sleeping between stop/restart
* fix for IPv6 facts on BSD
* added Jinja2 filters: skipped, whether a result was skipped
* added Jinja2 filters: quote, quotes a string if it needs to be quoted
* allow force=yes to affect apt upgrades
* fix for saving conditionals in variable names
* support for multiple host ranges in INI inventory, e.g., db[01:10:3]node-[01:10]
* fixes/improvements to cron module
* add user_install=no option to gem module to install gems system wide
* added raw=yes to allow copying without python on remote machines
* added with_indexed_items lookup plugin
* Linode inventory plugin now significantly faster
* added recurse=yes parameter to pacman module for package removal
* apt_key module can now target specific keyrings (keyring=filename)
* ec2 module change reporting improved
* hg module now expands user paths (~)
* SSH connection type known host checking now can process hashed known_host files
* lvg module now checks for executables in more correct locations
* copy module now works correctly with sudo_user
* region parameter added to ec2_elb module
* better default XMPP module message types
* fixed conditional tests against raw booleans
* mysql module grant removal is now smarter
* apt-remove is now forced to be non-interactive
* support ; comments in INI file module
* fixes to callbacks WRT async output (fire and forget tasks now trigger callbacks!)
* folder support for s3 module
* added new example inventory plugin for Red Hat OpenShift
* and other misc. bugfixes
1.2.3 "Hear About It Later" (reprise) -- Aug 21, 2013
* Local security fixes for predictable file locations for ControlPersist and retry file paths on shared machines
on operating systems without kernel symlink/hardlink protections.
1.2.2 "Hear About It Later" (reprise) -- July 4, 2013
* Added a configuration file option [paramiko_connection] record_host_keys which allows the code that paramiko uses
* networking: ec2_elb: add and remove machines from ec2 elastic load balancers
* notification: hipchat: send notification events to hipchat
* notification: flowdock: send messages to flowdock during playbook runs
* notification: campfire: send messages to campfire during playbook runs
* notification: mqtt: send messages to the Mosquitto message bus
* notification: irc: send messages to IRC channels
* notification: filesystem - a wrapper around mkfs
* notification: jabber: send jabber chat messages
* notification: osx_say: make OS X say things out loud
* openstack: keystone_user
* openstack: glance_image
* openstack: nova_compute
* openstack: nova_keypair
* openstack: quantum_floating_ip
* openstack: quantum_floating_ip_associate
* openstack: quantum_network
* openstack: quantum_router
* openstack: quantum_router_gateway
* openstack: quantum_router_interface
* openstack: quantum_subnet
* monitoring: newrelic_deployment: notifies newrelic of new deployments
* monitoring: airbrake_deployment - notify airbrake of new deployments
* monitoring: pingdom
* monitoring: pagerduty
* monitoring: monit
* utility: set_fact: sets a variable, which can be the result of a template evaluation
Modules removed
* vagrant -- can't be compatible with both versions at once, just run things though the vagrant provisioner in vagrant core
Bugfixes and Misc Changes:
* service module happier if only enabled=yes|no specified and no state
* mysql_db: use --password= instead of -p in dump/import so it doesn't go interactive if no pass set
* when using -c ssh and the ansible user is the current user, don't pass a -o to allow SSH config to be
* overwrite parameter added to the s3 module
* private_ip parameter added to the ec2 module
* $FILE and $PIPE now tolerate unicode
* various plugin loading operations have been made more efficient
* hostname now uses platform.node versus socket.gethostname to be more consistant with Unix 'hostname'
* fix for SELinux operations on Unicode path names
* inventory directory locations now ignore files with .ini extensions, making hybrid inventory easier
* copy module in check-mode now reports back correct changed status when used with force=no
* added avail. zone to ec2 module
* fixes to the hash variable merging logic if so enabled in the main settings file (default is to replace, not merge hashes)
* group_vars and host_vars files can now end in a .yaml or .yml extension, (previously required no extension, still favored)
* ec2vol module improvements
* if the user module is told to generate the ssh key, the key generated is now returned in the results
* misc fixes to the Riak module
* make template module slightly more efficient
* base64encode / decode filters are now available to templates
* libvirt module can now work with multiple different libvirt connecton URIs
* fix for postgresql password escaping
* unicode fix for shlex.split in some cases
* apt module upgrade logic improved
* URI module now can follow redirects
* yum module can now install off http URLs
* sudo password now defaults to ssh password if you ask for both and just hit enter on the second prompt
* validate feature on copy and template module, for example, running visudo prior to copying the file over
* network facts upgraded to return advanced configs (bonding, etc)
* region support added to ec2 module
* riak module gets a wait for ring option
* improved check mode support in the file module
* exception handling added to handle scenario when attempt to log to systemd journal fails
* fix for upstart handling when toggling the enablement and running bits at the same time
* when registering a task with a conditional attached, and the task is skipped by the conditional,
the variable is still registered for the host, with the attribute skipped: True.
* delegate_to tasks can look up ansible_ssh_private_key_file variable from inventory correctly now
* s3 module takes a 'dest' parameter to change the destination for uploads
* apt module gets a cache_valid_time option to avoid redundant cache updates
* ec2 module better understands security groups
* fix for postgresql codec usage
* setup module now tolerant of OpenVZ interfaces
* check mode reporting improved for files and directories
* doc system now reports on module requirements
* group_by module can now also make use of globally scoped variables
* localhost and 127.0.0.1 are now fuzzy matched in inventory (are now more or less interchangeable)
* AIX improvements/fixes for users, groups, facts
* lineinfile now does atomic file replacements
* fix to not pass PasswordAuthentication=no in the config file unneccessarily for SSH connection type
* for for authorized_key on Debian Squeeze
* fixes for apt_repository module reporting changed incorrectly on certain repository types
* allow the virtualenv argument to the pip module to be a pathname
* service pattern argument now correctly read for BSD services
* fetch location can now be controlled more directly via the 'flat' parameter.
* added basename and dirname as Jinja2 filters available to all templates
* pip works better when sudoing from unpriveledged users
* fix for user creation with groups specification reporting 'changed' incorrectly in some cases
* fix for some unicode encoding errors in outputing some data in verbose mode
* improved FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris facts
* debug module always outputs data without having to specify -v
* fix for sysctl module creating new keys (must specify checks=none)
* NetBSD and OpenBSD support for the user and groups modules
* Add encrypted password support to password lookup
1.1 "Mean Street" -- 4/2/2013
Core Features
* added --check option for "dry run" mode
* added --diff option to show how templates or copied files change, or might change
* --list-tasks for the playbook will list the tasks without running them
* able to set the environment by setting "environment:" as a dictionary on any task (go proxy support!)
* added ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass for per-host/group username and password
* jinja2 extensions can now be loaded from the config file
* support for complex arguments to modules (within reason)
* can specify ansible_connection=X to define the connection type in inventory variables
* a new chroot connection type
* module common code now has basic type checking (and casting) capability
* module common now supports a 'no_log' attribute to mark a field as not to be syslogged
* inventory can now point to a directory containing multiple scripts/hosts files, if using this, put group_vars/host_vars directories inside this directory
* added configurable crypt scheme for 'vars_prompt'
* (internals) template engine specifications to use template_ds everywhere
* better error message when your host file can not be found
* end of line comments now work in the inventory file
* directory destinations now work better with remote md5 code
* lookup plugin macros like $FILE and $ENV now work without returning arrays in variable definitions/playbooks
* uses yaml.safe_load everywhere
* able to add EXAMPLES to documentation via EXAMPLES docstring, rather than just in main documentation YAML
* can set ANSIBLE_COW_SELECTION to pick other cowsay types (including random)
* to_nice_yaml and to_nice_json available as Jinja2 filters that indent and sort
* cowsay able to run out of macports (very important!)
* improved logging for fireball mode
* nicer error message when talking to an older system that needs a JSON module installed
* 'magic' variable 'inventory_dir' now gives path to inventory file
* 'magic' variable 'vars' works like 'hostvars' but gives global scope variables, useful for debugging in templates mostly
* conditionals can be used on plugins like add_host
* developers: all callbacks now have access to a ".runner" and ".playbook", ".play", and ".task" object (use getattr, they may not always be set!)
Facts:
* block device facts for the setup module
* facts for AIX
* fact detection for OS type on Amazon Linux
* device fact gathering stability improvements
* ansible_os_family fact added
* user_id (remote user name)
* a whole series of current time information under the 'datetime' hash
* more OS X facts
* support for detecting Alpine Linux
* added facts for OpenBSD
Module Changes/Fixes:
* ansible module common code (and ONLY that) which is mixed in with modules, is now BSD licensed. App remains GPLv3.
* service code works better on platforms that mix upstart, systemd, and system-v
* service enablement idempotence fixes for systemd and upstart
* service status 4 is also 'not running'
* supervisorctl restart fix
* increased error handling for ec2 module
* can recursively set permissions on directories
* ec2: change to the way AMI tags are handled
* cron module can now also manipulate cron.d files
* virtualenv module can now inherit system site packages (or not)
* lineinfile module now has an insertbefore option
* NetBSD service module support
* fixes to sysctl module where item has multiple values
* AIX support for the user and group modules
* able to specify a different hg repo to pull from than the original set
* add_host module can set ports and other inventory variables
* add_host module can add modules to multiple groups (groups=a,b,c), groups now alias for groupname
* subnet ID can be set on EC2 module
* MySQL module password handling improvements
* added new virtualenv flags to pip and easy_install modules
* various improvements to lineinfile module, now accepts common arguments from file
* force= now replaces thirsty where used before, thirsty remains an alias
* setup module can take a 'filter=<wildcard>' parameter to just return a few facts (not used by playbooks)
* cron module works even if no crontab is present (for cron.d)
* security group ID settable on EC2 module
* misc fixes to sysctl module
* fix to apt module so packages not in cache are still removable
* charset fix to mail module
* postresql db module now does not try to create the 'PUBLIC' user
* SVN module now works correctly with self signed certs
* apt module now has an upgrade parameter (values=yes, no, or 'dist')
* nagios module gets new silence/unsilence commands
* ability to disable proxy usage in get_url (use_proxy=no)
* more OS X facts
* added a 'fail_on_missing' (default no) option to fetch
* added timeout to the uri module (default 30 seconds, adjustable)
* ec2 now has a 'wait' parameter to wait for the instance to be active, eliminates need for separate wait_for call.
* allow regex backreferences in lineinfile
* id attribute on ec2 module can be used to set idempotent-do-not-recreate launches
* icinga support for nagios module
* fix default logins when no my.conf for MySQL module
* option to create users with non-unique UIDs (user module)
* macports module can enable/disable packages
* quotes in my.cnf are stripped by the MySQL modules
* Solaris Service management added
* service module will attempt to auto-add unmanaged chkconfig services when needed
* service module supports systemd service unit files
Plugins:
* added 'with_random_choice' filter plugin
* fixed ~ expansion for fileglob
* with_nested allows for nested loops (see examples in examples/playbooks)
1.0 "Eruption" -- Feb 1 2013
New modules:
* new sysctl module
* new pacman module (Arch linux)
* new apt_key module
* hg module now in core
* new ec2_facts module
* added pkgin module for Joyent SmartOS
New config settings:
* sudo_exe parameter can be set in config to use sudo alternatives
* sudo_flags parameter can alter the flags used with sudo
New playbook/language features:
* added when_failed and when_changed
* task includes can now be of infinite depth
* when_set and when_unset can take more than one var (when_set: $a and $b and $c)
* added the with_sequence lookup plugin
* can override "connection:" on an indvidual task
* parameterized playbook includes can now define complex variables (not just all on one line)
* making inventory variables available for use in vars_files paths
* messages when skipping plays are now more clear
* --extra-vars now has maximum precedence (as intended)
Module fixes and new flags:
* ability to use raw module without python on remote system
* fix for service status checking on Ubuntu
* service module now responds to additional exit code for SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
* fix for raw module with '-c local'
* various fixes to git module
* ec2 module now reports the public DNS name
* can pass executable= to the raw module to specify alternative shells
* fix for postgres module when user contains a "-"
* added additional template variables -- $template_fullpath and $template_run_date
* raise errors on invalid arguments used with a task include statement
* shell/command module takes a executable= parameter to specify a different shell than /bin/sh
* added return code and error output to the raw module
* added support for @reboot to the cron module
* misc fixes to the pip module
* nagios module can schedule downtime for all services on the host
* various subversion module improvements
* various mail module improvements
* SELinux fix for files created by authorized_key module
* "template override" ??
* get_url module can now send user/password authorization
* ec2 module can now deploy multiple simultaneous instances
* fix for apt_key modules stalling in some situations
* fix to enable Jinja2 {% include %} to work again in template
* ec2 module is now powered by Boto
* setup module can now detect if package manager is using pacman
* fix for yum module with enablerepo in use on EL 6
Core fixes and new behaviors:
* various fixes for variable resolution in playbooks
* fixes for handling of "~" in some paths
* various fixes to DWIM'ing of relative paths
* /bin/ansible now takes a --list-hosts just like ansible-playbook did
* various patterns can now take a regex vs a glob if they start with "~" (need docs on which!) - also /usr/bin/ansible
* allow intersecting host patterns by using "&" ("webservers:!debian:&datacenter1")
* handle tilde shell character for --private-key
* hash merging policy is now selectable in the config file, can choose to override or merge
* environment variables now available for setting all plugin paths (ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS, etc)
* added packaging file for macports (not upstreamed yet)
* hacking/test-module script now uses /usr/bin/env properly
* fixed error formatting for certain classes of playbook syntax errors
* fix for processing returns with large volumes of output
Inventory files/scripts:
* hostname patterns in the inventory file can now use alphabetic ranges
* whitespace is now allowed around group variables in the inventory file
* inventory scripts can now define groups of groups and group vars (need example for docs?)
0.9 "Dreams" -- Nov 30 2012
Highlighted core changes:
* various performance tweaks, ansible executes dramatically less SSH ops per unit of work
* close paramiko SFTP connections less often on copy/template operations (speed increase)
* change the way we use multiprocessing (speed/RAM usage improvements)
* able to set default for asking password & sudo password in config file
* ansible now installs nicely if running inside a virtualenv
* flag to allow SSH connection to move files by scp vs sftp (in config file)
* additional RPM subpackages for easily installing fireball mode deps (server and node)
* group_vars/host_vars now available to ansible, not just playbooks
* native ssh connection type (-c ssh) now supports passwords as well as keys
* ansible-doc program to show details
Other core changes:
* fix for template calls when last character is '$'
* if ansible_python_interpreter is set on a delegated host, it now works as intended
* --limit can now take "," as separator as well as ";" or ":"
* msg is now displaced with newlines when a task fails
* if any with_ plugin has no results in a list (empty list for with_items, etc), the task is now skipped
* various output formatting fixes/improvements
* fix for Xen dom0/domU detection in default facts
* 'ansible_domain' fact now available (ex value: example.com)
* configured remote temp file location is now always used even for root
* 'register'-ed variables are not recorded for skipped hosts (for example, using only_if/when)
* duplicate host records for the same host can no longer result when a host is listed in multiple groups
* ansible-pull now passes --limit to prevent running on multiple hosts when used with generic playbooks
* remote md5sum check fixes for Solaris 10
* ability to configure syslog facility used by remote module calls
* in templating, stray '$' characters are now handled more correctly
Playbook changes:
* relative paths now work for 'first_available_file'
* various templating engine fixes
* 'when' is an easier form of only if
* --list-hosts on the playbook command now supports multiple playbooks on the same command line
* playbook includes can now be parameterized
Module additions:
* (addhost) new module for adding a temporary host record (used for creating new guests)
* (group_by) module allows partitioning hosts based on group data
* (ec2) new module for creating ec2 hosts
* (script) added 'script' module for pushing and running self-deleting remote scripts
* (svr4pkg) solaris svr4pkg module
Module changes:
* (authorized key) module uses temp file now to prevent failure on full disk
* (fetch) now uses the 'slurp' internal code to work as you would expect under sudo'ed accounts
* (fetch) internal usage of md5 sums fixed for BSD
* (get_url) thirsty is no longer required for directory destinations
* (git) various git module improvements/tweaks
* (group) now subclassed for various platforms, includes SunOS support
* (lineinfile) create= option on lineinfile can create the file when it does not exist
* (mysql_db) module takes new grant options
* (postgresql_db) module now takes role_attr_flags
* (service) further upgrades to service module service status reporting
* (service) tweaks to get service module to play nice with BSD style service systems (rc.conf)
* (service) possible to pass additional arguments to services
* (shell) and command module now take an 'executable=' flag for specifying an alternate shell than /bin/sh
* (user) ability to create SSH keys for users when using user module to create users
* (user) atomic replacement of files preserves permissions of original file
* (user) module can create SSH keys
* (user) module now does Solaris and BSD
* (yum) module takes enablerepo= and disablerepo=
* (yum) misc yum module fixing for various corner cases
Plugin changes:
* EC2 inventory script now produces nicer failure message if AWS is down (or similar)
* plugin loading code now more streamlined
* lookup plugins for DNS text records, environment variables, and redis
* added a template lookup plugin $TEMPLATE('filename.j2')
* various tweaks to the EC2 inventory plugin
* jinja2 filters are now pluggable so it's easy to write your own (to_json/etc, are now impl. as such)
0.8 "Cathedral" -- Oct 19, 2012
Highlighted Core Changes:
* fireball mode -- ansible can bootstrap a ephemeral 0mq (zeromq) daemon that runs as a given user and expires after X period of time. It is very fast.
* playbooks with errors now return 2 on failure. 1 indicates a more fatal syntax error. Similar for /usr/bin/ansible
* server side action code (template, etc) are now fully pluggable
* ability to write lookup plugins, like the code powering "with_fileglob" (see below)
Other Core Changes:
* ansible config file can also go in 'ansible.cfg' in cwd in addition to ~/.ansible.cfg and /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
* fix for inventory hosts at API level when hosts spec is a list and not a colon delimited string
* ansible-pull example now sets up logrotate for the ansible-pull cron job log
* a module for adding entries to the main crontab (though you may still wish to just drop template files into cron.d)
* debug module can be used for outputing messages without using 'shell echo'
* a fail module is now available for causing errors, you might want to use it with only_if to fail in certain conditions
Other module Changes, Upgrades, and Fixes:
* removes= exists on command just like creates=
* postgresql modules now take an optional port= parameter
* /proc/cmdline info is now available in Linux facts
* public host key detection for OS X
* lineinfile module now uses 'search' not exact 'match' in regexes, making it much more intuitive and not needing regex syntax most of the time
* added force=yes|no (default no) option for file module, which allows transition between files to directories and so on
* additional facts for SunOS virtualization
* copy module is now atomic when used across volumes
* url_get module now returns 'dest' with the location of the file saved
* fix for yum module when using local RPMs vs downloading
* cleaner error messages with copy if destination directory does not exist
* setup module now still works if PATH is not set
* service module status now correct for services with 'subsys locked' status
* misc fixes/upgrades to the wait_for module
* git module now expands any "~" in provided destination paths
* ignore stop error code failure for service module with state=restarted, always try to start
* inline documentation for modules allows documentation source to built without pull requests to the ansible-docs project, among other things
* variable '$ansible_managed' is now great to include at the top of your templates and includes useful information and a warning that it will be replaced
* "~" now expanded in command module when using creates/removes
* mysql module can do dumps and imports
* selinux policy is only required if setting to not disabled
* various fixes for yum module when working with packages not in any present repo
0.7 "Panama" -- Sept 6 2012
Module changes:
* login_unix_socket option for mysql user and database modules (see PR #781 for doc notes)
* new modules -- pip, easy_install, apt_repository, supervisorctl
* error handling for setup module when SELinux is in a weird state
* misc yum module fixes
* better changed=True/False detection in user module on older Linux distros
* nicer errors from modules when arguments are not key=value
* backup option on copy (backup=yes), as well as template, assemble, and lineinfile
* file module will not recurse on directory properties
* yum module now workable without having repoquery installed, but doesn't support comparisons or list= if so
* setup module now detects interfaces with aliases
* better handling of VM guest type detection in setup module
* new module boilerplate code to check for mutually required arguments, arguments required together, exclusive args
* add pattern= as a paramter to the service module (for init scripts that don't do status, or do poor status)
* various fixes to mysql & postresql modules
* added a thirsty= option (boolean, default no) to the get_url module to decide to download the file every time or not
* added a wait_for module to poll for ports being open
* added a nagios module for controlling outage windows and alert statuses
* added a seboolean module for getsebool/setsebool type operations
* added a selinux module for controlling overall SELinux policy
* added a subversion module
* added lineinfile for adding and removing lines from basic files
* added facts for ARM-based CPUs
* support for systemd in the service module
* git moduleforce reset behavior is now controllable
* file module can now operate on special files (block devices, etc)
Core changes:
* ansible --version will now give branch/SHA information if running from git
* better sudo permissions when encountering different umasks
* when using paramiko and SFTP is not accessible, do not traceback, but return a nice human readable msg
* use -vvv for extreme debug levels. -v gives more playbook output as before
* -vv shows module arguments to all module calls (and maybe some other things later)
* don not pass "--" to sudo to work on older EL5
* make remote_md5 internal function work with non-bash shells
* allow user to be passed in via --extra-vars (regression)
* add --limit option, which can be used to further confine the pattern given in ansible-playbooks
* adds ranged patterns like dbservers[0-49] for usage with patterns or --limit
* -u and user: defaults to current user, rather than root, override as before
* /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and ~/ansible.cfg now available to set default values and other things
* (developers) ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 can be used in debugging (envrionment variable)
* (developers) connection types are now plugins
* (developers) callbacks can now be extended via plugins
* added FreeBSD ports packaging scripts
* check for terminal properties prior to engaging color modes
* explicitly disable password auth with -c ssh, as it is not used anyway
Playbooks:
* YAML syntax errors detected and show where the problem is
* if you ctrl+c a playbook it will not traceback (usually)
* vars_prompt now has encryption options (see examples/playbooks/prompts.yml)
* allow variables in parameterized task include parameters (regression)
* add ability to store the result of any command in a register (see examples/playbooks/register_logic.yml)
* --list-hosts to show what hosts are included in each play of a playbook
* fix a variable ordering issue that could affect vars_files with selective file source lists
* adds 'delegate_to' for a task, which can be used to signal outage windows and load balancers on behalf of hosts
* adds 'serial' to playbook, allowing you to specify how many hosts can be processing a playbook at one time (default 0=all)
* adds 'local_action: <actionparameters>' as an alias to 'delegate_to: 127.0.0.1'
0.6 "Cabo" -- August 6, 2012
playbooks:
* support to tag tasks and includes and use --tags in playbook CLI
* playbooks can now include other playbooks (example/playbooks/nested_playbooks.yml)
* vars_files now usable with with_items, provided file paths don't contain host specific facts
* error reporting if with_items value is unbound
* with_items no longer creates lots of tasks, creates one task that makes multiple calls
* can use host_specific facts inside with_items (see above)
* at the top level of a playbook, set 'gather_facts: no' to skip fact gathering
* first_available_file and with_items used together will now raise an error
* to catch typos, like 'var' for 'vars', playbooks and tasks now yell on invalid parameters
* automatically load (directory_of_inventory_file)/group_vars/groupname and /host_vars/hostname in vars_files
* playbook is now colorized, set ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR=1 if you do not like this, does not colorize if not a TTY
* hostvars now preserved between plays (regression in 0.5 from 0.4), useful for sharing vars in multinode configs
* ignore_errors: yes on a task can be used to allow a task to fail and not stop the play
* with_items with the apt/yum module will install/remove/update everything in a single command
inventory:
* groups variable available as a hash to return the hosts in each group name
* in YAML inventory, hosts can list their groups in inverted order now also (see tests/yaml_hosts)
* YAML inventory is deprecated and will be removed in 0.7
* ec2 inventory script
* support ranges of hosts in the host file, like www[001-100].example.com (supports leading zeros and also not)
modules:
* fetch module now does not fail a system when requesting file paths (ex: logs) that don't exist
* apt module now takes an optional install-recommends=yes|no (default yes)
* fixes to the return codes of the copy module
* copy module takes a remote md5sum to avoid large file transfer
* various user and group module fixes (error handling, etc)
* apt module now takes an optional force parameter
* slightly better psychic service status handling for the service module
* fetch module fixes for SSH connection type
* modules now consistently all take yes/no for boolean parameters (and DWIM on true/false/1/0/y/n/etc)
* setup module no longer saves to disk, template module now only used in playbooks
* setup module no longer needs to run twice per playbook
* apt module now passes DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
* mount module (manages active mounts + fstab)
* setup module fixes if no ipv6 support
* internals: template in common module boilerplate, also causes less SSH operations when used
* git module fixes
* setup module overhaul, more modular
* minor caching logic added to inventory to reduce hammering of inventory scripts.
* MySQL and PostgreSQL modules for user and db management
* vars_prompt now supports private password entry (see examples/playbooks/prompts.yml)
* yum module modified to be more tolerant of plugins spewing random console messages (ex: RHN)
internals:
* when sudoing to root, still use /etc/ansible/setup as the metadata path, as if root
* paramiko is now only imported if needed when running from source checkout
* cowsay support on Ubuntu
* various ssh connection fixes for old Ubuntu clients
* ./hacking/test-module now supports options like ansible takes and has a debugger mode
* sudoing to a user other than root now works more seamlessly (uses /tmp, avoids umask issues)
0.5 "Amsterdam" ------- July 04, 2012
* Service module gets more accurate service states when running with upstart
