Hi all, we're very happy to announce that Ansible 2.1 has been released! On the networking front, we’ve included managing networking infrastructure as first-order feature set in Ansible--no separate download required. We previously released the Networking tech preview in February at AnsibleFest in London, and now it is fully integrated into Ansible as part of 2.1 Ansible’s agentless model works particularly well in the network management space, and with a lot of help and support from the vendors, we are very pleased to have our first major release with support for these features. Networking now includes support for:
- Cisco - HP Enterprise - Juniper - Arista Networks - Cumulus Networks In the Microsoft world, we significantly upped our game for both Windows and Azure Cloud. We’re happy to take the beta tag off of our Windows support, and make it a fully supported part of the Ansible automation platform. As part of this effort, we’ve engaged more deeply with the pywinrm project team and others to add support for NTLM and Kerberos delegation. NTLM makes managing domain resources much easier, since domain users can authenticate with just a username and password, which is enabled by default in WinRM. Kerberos delegation allows for easy domain-based multi-hop management (eg, accessing file shares and SQL Server databases with domain credentials). For Azure, we’ve added a full suite of modules, as well as an inventory script that targets the new Azure Resource Manager API. The new modules allow first-class management of most basic resource types (eg, virtual networks, storage accounts, NICs, virtual machines), as well as deployment of Azure Resource Manager templates. We’ve also built a shared framework for supporting new Azure resource types, so it’s much easier for the Ansible community to keep up with changes to the Azure platform, and to wrap custom resources in Ansible modules. On the containers front, our focus for this release is to further mature our Docker support, with a large effort in making it simple to manage and scale Docker infrastructure--especially as it relates to your overall infrastructure. We really focused on our core mission of “radically simple automation,” and I think we’ve done well. Here are some basics about what’s new in container-world: - docker_service: Allows users to consumer Docker Compose and manage and scale multiple services in a standalone environment or Docker Swarm. In addition to all of these new features, many improvements have been made to fix backwards compatibility issues with 1.9, so the transition to 2.1 should be a bit smoother for many users. As always, this update is available via PyPi and releases.ansible.com now, and packages for distros will be available as soon as possible. James Cammarata Ansible Lead/Sr. Principal Software Engineer Ansible by Red Hat twitter: @thejimic, github: jimi-c -- 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/CAMFyvFhDLHDLeVj98XSDgHjz52rysSc%2B8jP_rTxJJ7Ba1vi6HA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
