Ansible Changes By Release ========================== 0.4 "Unchained" ------- in progress, ETA May 2012 * custom facts provided by the setup module mean no dependency on Ruby, facter, or ohai * sudo improvements, now works much more smoothly * some support for reading some default settings from the ssh config file (key pairs, ports) * OS X support in progress for ansible on the host and clients (modules still TBA) * list of hosts in playbooks can be expressed as a YAML list in addition to ; delimited * tweaks to SELinux implementation for file module * first_available_file feature, see selective_file_sources.yml in examples/playbooks for info * fixes for yum module corner cases on EL5 * --extra-vars="a=2 b=3" etc, now available to inject parameters into playbooks from CLI * file module now correctly returns the mode in octal * modules can no longer include stderr output (paramiko limitation from sudo) * 'group_names' is now a variable made available to templates 0.3 "Baluchitherium" -- April 23, 2012 * Packaging for Debian, Gentoo, and Arch * Improvements to the apt and yum modules * A virt module * SELinux support for the file module * Ability to use facts from other systems in templates (aka exported resources like support) * Built in Ansible facts so you don't need ohai, facter, or Ruby * tempdir selections that work with noexec mounted /tmp * templates happen locally, not remotely, so no dependency on python-jinja2 for remote computers * advanced inventory format in YAML allows more control over variables per host and per group * variables in playbooks can be structured/nested versus just a flat namespace * manpage upgrades (docs) * various bugfixes * can specify a default --user for playbooks rather than specifying it in the playbook file * able to specify ansible port in ansible host file (see docs) * refactored Inventory API to make it easier to write scripts using Ansible * looping capability for playbooks (with_items) * support for using sudo with a password * module arguments can be unicode * A local connection type, --connection=local, for use with cron or in kickstarts * better module debugging with -D * fetch module for pulling in files from remote hosts * command task supports creates=foo for idempotent semantics, won't run if file foo already exists 0.0.2 and 0.0.1 * Initial stages of project