Awesome, I'd be happy to discuss. The modules I pointed to at the separate github spot came in to being only over the last year or so. I didn't have a place to put them publicly until the f5networks github account came about.
Hopefully, in time, they will find their way into the upstream product and I can remove this side-band repository we currently have. I'm more interested in being part of ansible's workflow than maintaining a separate one. I share your same concerns. To the best extent I can, the modules in that repo are idempotent. They do not have a corresponding check-mode, but I agree this is a needed addition. Finally, where I have been unsure about how to implement an interface, I have punted and looked at existing modules. That's why you see some of those parameters named the way they are. I've just used existing modules as references. For example, http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/user_module.html http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/mysql_user_module.html http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/postgresql_user_module.html Also I've tried to add REST and SOAP interfaces if similar functionality exists in each. It helps test those interfaces on my end and future-proofs these modules in the (unlikely) event that one of the interfaces gets deprecated. I'll send a PR to upstream for the bigip_command module. If there are any others you would like to see sooner rather than later, lemme know. My initial work has been around more of the bootstrapping portions of the process as apparently that's not an entirely clear process. I've been cycling through virtual editions like its going out of style too, so to start with bootstrapping just seemed to fit (if your standing them up and tearing them down all day...why not automate it...) Moving forward I'm honestly open to suggestion. If you think a specific set of functionality would best be encapsulated in a role or module, let's have that discussion and see what comes of it. Feel free to ping me off list, or reach out on DevCentral or on github. Thanks! -tim On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Matt Hite <li...@beatmixed.com> wrote: > This is fantastic... no idea F5 had an internal Ansible effort going! We > should discuss how best to reconcile the modules that have been shipping > with Ansible vs. the ones you've been working on @ F5. > > My only "concerns" would be that we: > > - maintain idempotent behavior when possible > - support check-mode > - consistent module API, ie. server, user, password parameters in one > module vs. login_host, login_user, etc. in another module is no bueno > > The bigip_command is cool, would love to see something like that > eventually end up in the Ansible repo. > > What's the vision of the tooling you've been working on? Looks very much > centered around bootstrapping devices rather than day to day operations. > > Thanks, > > -M > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Tim <caphrim...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> Thanks for the new PR. I was going to wait for 2.0 to be released to send >> these remaining PRs in for new F5 modules, but since I saw this thread, >> figured I'd speak up sooner rather than later. >> >> I maintain the f5network's modules here >> >> https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible/tree/master/library >> >> and would be interested in working together with you on this one if >> you're open to that. >> >> Lemme know. >> >> Thanks! >> tim >> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Matt Hite <li...@beatmixed.com> wrote: >> >>> Would love to get a few more eyes from F5 BIG-IP on a new module I just >>> submitted for managing users. >>> >>> Here's the pull request: >>> >>> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1370 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -M >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Development" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAB0Zv8hFrnL-nSjrVLN65SYmN5pJPe-LKwf2XDYcisDBL1iQ2w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
