Fedora 17 Update: ansible-0.4.1-1.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9445
2012-06-15 11:48:50
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Name        : ansible
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.4.1
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://ansible.github.com
Summary     : Minimal SSH command and control
Description :
Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management,
multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works
over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed
on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and
are transferred to managed machines automatically.

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Update Information:

0.4.1 

Allowing the template module to expand src=$foo

0.4 "Unchained"

Internals/Core

    * internal inventory API now more object oriented, parsers decoupled
    * async handling improvements
    * misc fixes for running ansible on OS X (overlord only)
    * sudo improvements, now works much more smoothly
    * sudo to a particular user with -U/--sudo-user, or using 'sudo_user: foo' in a playbook
    * --private-key CLI option to work with pem files

Inventory

    * can use -i host1,host2,host3:port to specify hosts not in inventory (replaces --override-hosts)
    * ansible INI style format can do groups of groups [groupname:children] and group vars [groupname:vars]
    * groups and users module takes an optional system=yes|no on creation (default no)
    * list of hosts in playbooks can be expressed as a YAML list in addition to ; delimited

Playbooks

    * variables can be replaced like ${foo.nested_hash_key.nested_subkey[array_index]}
    * unicode now ok in templates (assumes utf8)
    * able to pass host specifier or group name in to "hosts:" with --extra-vars
    * ansible-pull script and example playbook (extreme scaling, remediation)
    * inventory_hostname variable available that contains the value of the host as ansible knows it
    * variables in the 'all' section can be used to define other variables based on those values
    * 'group_names' is now a variable made available to templates
    * first_available_file feature, see selective_file_sources.yml in examples/playbooks for info
    * --extra-vars="a=2 b=3" etc, now available to inject parameters into playbooks from CLI

Incompatible Changes

    * jinja2 is only usable in templates, not playbooks, use $foo instead
    * --override-hosts removed, can use -i with comma notation (-i "ahost,bhost")
    * modules can no longer include stderr output (paramiko limitation from sudo)

Module Changes

    * tweaks to SELinux implementation for file module
    * fixes for yum module corner cases on EL5
    * file module now correctly returns the mode in octal
    * fix for symlink handling in the file module
    * service takes an enable=yes|no which works with chkconfig or updates-rc.d as appropriate
    * service module works better on Ubuntu
    * git module now does resets and such to work more smoothly on updates
    * modules all now log to syslog
    * enabled=yes|no on a service can be used to toggle chkconfig & updates-rc.d states
    * git module supports branch=
    * service fixes to better detect status using return codes of the service script
    * custom facts provided by the setup module mean no dependency on Ruby, facter, or ohai
    * service now has a state=reloaded
    * raw module for bootstrapping and talking to routers w/o Python, etc

Misc Bugfixes

    * fixes for variable parsing in only_if lines
    * misc fixes to key=value parsing
    * variables with mixed case now legal
    * fix to internals of hacking/test-module development script

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 12 2012 Tim Bielawa <tbielawa at redhat.com> - 0.4.1-1
- Release of 0.4.1 (bugfixes)
* Wed May 23 2012 Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan at gmail.com> - 0.4-0
- Release of 0.4
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