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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_5.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_5.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..34d376ce --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_5.rst @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +=========== +Ansible 2.5 +=========== +**Core Engine Freeze and Module Freeze: 22 January 2018** + +**Core and Curated Module Freeze: 22 January 2018** + +**Community Module Freeze: 7 February 2018** + +**Release Candidate 1 will be 21 February, 2018** + +**Target: March 2018** + +**Service Release schedule: every 2-3 weeks** + +.. contents:: Topics + +Release Manager +--------------- +Matt Davis (IRC/GitHub: @nitzmahone) + + +Engine improvements +------------------- +- Assemble module improvements + - assemble just skips when in check mode, it should be able to test if there is a difference and changed=true/false. + - The same with diff, it should work as template modules does +- Handle Password reset prompts cleaner +- Tasks stats for rescues and ignores +- Normalize temp dir usage across all subsystems +- Add option to set playbook dir for adhoc, inventory and console to allow for 'relative path loading' + + +Ansible-Config +-------------- +- Extend config to more plugin types and update plugins to support the new config + +Inventory +--------- +- ansible-inventory option to output group variable assignment and data (--export) +- Create inventory plugins for: + - aws + +Facts +----- +- Namespacing fact variables (via a config option) implemented in ansible/ansible PR `#18445 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/18445>`_. + Proposal found in ansible/proposals issue `#17 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/17>`_. +- Make fact collectors and gather_subset specs finer grained +- Eliminate unneeded deps between fact collectors +- Allow fact collectors to indicate if they need information from another fact collector to be gathered first. + +Static Loop Keyword +------------------- + +- A simpler altenative to ``with_``, ``loop:`` only takes a list +- Remove complexity from loops, lookups are still available to users +- Less confusing having a static directive vs a one that is dynamic depending on plugins loaded. + +Vault +----- +- Vault secrets client inc new 'keyring' client + +Runtime Check on Modules for Blacklisting +----------------------------------------- +- Filter on things like "supported_by" in module metadata +- Provide users with an option of "warning, error or allow/ignore" +- Configurable via ansible.cfg and environment variable + +Windows +------- +- Implement gather_subset on Windows facts +- Fix Windows async + become to allow them to work together +- Implement Windows become flags for controlling various modes **(done)** + - logontype + - elevation behavior +- Convert win_updates to action plugin for auto reboot and extra features **(done)** +- Spike out changing the connection over to PSRP instead of WSMV **(done- it's possible)** +- Module updates + + - win_updates **(done)** + + - Fix win_updates to detect (or request) become + - Add whitelist/blacklist features to win_updates + - win_dsc further improvements **(done)** + +General Cloud +------------- +- Make multi-cloud provisioning easier +- Diff mode will output provisioning task results of ansible-playbook runs +- Terraform module + +AWS +--- +- Focus on pull requests for various modules +- Triage existing merges for modules +- Module work + + - ec2_instance + - ec2_vpc: Allow the addition of secondary IPv4 CIDRS to existing VPCs. + - AWS Network Load Balancer support (NLB module, ASG support, and so on) + - rds_instance + +Azure +----- +- Azure CLI auth **(done)** +- Fix Azure module results to have "high-level" output instead of raw REST API dictionary **(partial, more to come in 2.6)** +- Deprecate Azure automatic storage accounts in azure_rm_virtualmachine **(breaks on Azure Stack, punted until AS supports managed disks)** + +Network Roadmap +--------------- +- Refactor common network shared code into package **(done)** +- Convert various nxos modules to leverage declarative intent **(done)** +- Refactor various modules to leverage the cliconf plugin **(done)** +- Add various missing declarative modules for supported platforms and functions **(done)** +- Implement a feature that handles platform differences and feature unavailability **(done)** +- netconf-config.py should provide control for deployment strategy +- Create netconf connection plugin **(done)** +- Create netconf fact module +- Turn network_cli into a usable connection type **(done)** +- Implements jsonrpc message passing for ansible-connection **(done)** +- Improve logging for ansible-connection **(done)** +- Improve stdout output for failures whilst using persistent connection **(done)** +- Create IOS-XR NetConf Plugin and refactor iosxr modules to leverage netconf plugin **(done)** +- Refactor junos modules to use netconf plugin **(done)** +- Filters: Add a filter to convert XML response from a network device to JSON object **(done)** + +Documentation +------------- +- Extend documentation to more plugins +- Document vault-password-client scripts. +- Network Documentation + + - New landing page (to replace intro_networking) **(done)** + - Platform specific guides **(done)** + - Walk through: Getting Started **(done)** + - Networking and ``become`` **(done)** + - Best practice **(done)** + +Contributor Quality of Life +--------------------------- +- Finish PSScriptAnalyer integration with ansible-test (for enforcing Powershell style) **(done)** +- Resolve issues requiring skipping of some integration tests on Python 3. |