Ansible 2.6 ¶

Topics

Ansible 2.6

Release Schedule ¶

Actual ¶

2018-05-17 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-05-21 Alpha Release 1

Expected ¶

2018-05-24 Alpha Release 2
2018-05-25 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-05-25 Branch stable-2.6
2018-05-31 Release Candidate 1
2018-06-07 Release Candidate 2
2018-06-14 Release Candidate 3
2018-06-28 Final Release

Engine improvements ¶

Version 2.6 is largely going to be a stabilization release for Core code.
Some of the items covered in this release, but are not limited to are the following:
- ansible-inventory
- import_*
- include_*
- Test coverage
- Performance Testing

Core Modules ¶

Adopt-a-module Campaign
- Review current status of all Core Modules
- Reduce backlog of open issues against these modules

Cloud Modules ¶

Network ¶

Connection work ¶

New connection plugin: eAPI proposal#102
New connection plugin: NX-API
Support for configurable options for network_cli & netconf

Modules ¶

New net_get - platform agnostic module for pulling configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli
New net_put - platform agnostic module for pushing configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli
New netconf_get - Netconf module to fetch configuration and state data proposal#104

Other Features ¶

Stretch & tech preview: Configuration caching for network_cli. Opt-in feature to avoid show running performance hit

Windows ¶