[CentOS-devel] [Config Management SIG] delivering Ansible

David Moreau Simard

dms at redhat.com
Mon Nov 14 22:58:08 UTC 2016


I just learned that Ansible is already packaged in SIGs [1].

Can we straigthen that out so that there's not multiple individuals
working towards the same goals ?

[1]: http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=11347

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

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On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:12 PM, François Cami <fcami at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:02 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:37 AM, François Cami <fcami at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> Version-wise, I plan to deliver 1.9/2.0/2.1/2.2 in separate
>>> repositories managed by separate centos-release-ansible-{19,20,21,22}
>>> RPMs. Any issue during the build and test phases will be reported here
>>> or on IRC. Persistent issues will be posted to the wiki.
>>
>> Does upstream Ansible even support as far back as 1.9.x and 2.0.x ?
>
> The answer is quite probably "no".
>
>> Are you going to be shipping what are basically EOL and
>> unsupported/unmaintained versions ?
>
> Yes.
> There will be a note in the wiki making that clear.
> Tbh I have no other choice as ceph upstream repeatedly told me the
> ceph-ansible playbook is only validated against ansible-1.9 for now.
>
> One of the goals of the ansible effort is to test that particular
> playbook against different ansible versions and fix the bugs in the
> playbook.
> I'd rather start from a known-working environment than from a broken
> one to do so.
>
> François
>
>
>> Looking at releases [1], the last 2.0.x and 1.9.x versions were both
>> in April 2016 -- not /that/ old by any stretch but still old enough to
>> question upstream about their supportability.
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases
>>
>> David Moreau Simard
>> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>>
>> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
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