Ansible Inclusion

[equinix]

Ansible Inclusion

[felixfontein]

• CI currently does not run against the stable-2.11 branch of ansible-core, which is the basis of Ansible 4 (earlier comment on that).

[vielmetti]

Also noted https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_12.html the roadmap for stable-2.12 which is the basis for Ansible 5:

2021-08-30 Feature Freeze No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code
2021-09-13 Beta 1
2021-09-20 Beta 2 (if necessary)
2021-10-04 Release Candidate 1 (and stable-2.12 branching from devel)
2021-10-11 Release Candidate 2 (if necessary)
2021-10-25 Release

which suggests that future Ansible 5 work will have a short 3-week window in October to finish up and adjust the CI to be sure that we have the right tests in place.

[displague]

I believe the CI testing requirements are already in place via:

• https://github.com/equinix/ansible-collection-metal/tree/main/.github/workflows
• https://github.com/equinix/ansible-collection-metal/actions

Perhaps #21 is a blocker.

[vielmetti]

According to ansible-community/community-topics#10 there were some blockers for consideration for Ansible 4.

[vielmetti]

https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-community/2021-04-28/ansible_community_meeting.2021-04-28-18.00.log.html#l-343 is the discussion; the recommendation is to target Ansible 5, about 6 months out.

[vielmetti]

Noted at #34