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The Bullhorn, Issue 7

OUTLINE

Deadline for Content: Friday, July 24
Edit Day: Monday, July 27
Preview Day: Tuesday, July 28
Publication Date: Wednesday, July 29

• ALWAYS: Summary of recent IRC meetings (@gundalow)

• ALWAYS: Reminder of upcoming IRC meetings (@gundalow)

• ALWAYS: Releases

• Ansible-2.10.0 alpha3 released July 16 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-devel/NoYmrpQ3IkU

• Ansible-base 2.10.0rc1... sometime soon?

• ALWAYS: New Community Collections

• ALWAYS: Proposals

• ALWAYS: Reminder of upcoming meetups (@cybette)
  The following virtual meetups are being held in the Ansible community over the next month:

• Ansible New Zealand: building stateless self configuring Ansible Clusters
  Thu, Aug 13 · 12:00 PM GMT+12
  https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-New-Zealand/events/271707416/

• Ansible NOVA August Session
  Wed, Aug 12 · 4:00 PM EDT
  https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-NOVA/events/271964842/

• ALWAYS: AWX / molecule / ansible-lint update?

• MAYBE: Community content review (@cybette)

• Using Ansible Molecule to test roles in monorepos

• Pulp Squeezer - an Ansible collection to manage Pulp

• Building and Publishing Documentation for Ansible Collections

• MAYBE: Something about the Molecule project (@gundalow)

• MAYBE: an introduction to namespaces (@thaumos)

• MAYBE: Ansible Community Collection: Open for Business? Call to Action?

• MAYBE: Key metric by @GregSutcliffe

• LATER: Something about security automation

• LATER: An intro to Execution Environments

• LATER: Red Hat Summit Recap (only if there’s a direct link to good content)

[cybette]

Community content suggestion by @evgeni on June 15: using Ansible Molecule to test roles in monorepos

EDITOR: Accepted for issue 7, thanks!

[imjoseangel]

Ansible Collections build automation. I'm working on that in my repo. If you want I can work on writing something.

[cybette]

@imjoseangel sure, that will be great!

[imjoseangel]

Cool! I will prepare everything and I will get back to you when ready :)

[bmillemathias]

this is a more global subject, and I don't know if it could be interesting for the target audience, but I'd like an article on the different teams working on Ansible (core, network, doc, ...) and how they work together

[cybette]

this is a more global subject, and I don't know if it could be interesting for the target audience, but I'd like an article on the different teams working on Ansible (core, network, doc, ...) and how they work together

that could be of interest, indeed. @gregdek what do you think?

[melcorr]

The Pulp team have just announced Pulp Squeezer - an Ansible collection to manage Pulp. Read more at:

https://pulpproject.org/2020/07/16/pulp-squeezer-0.0.1-available/

EDITOR: accepted for issue 7, thanks!

[bmillemathias]

Seems a good information that worth to be spread but could it be nice to have some explanation about what is pulp (I never heard until yesterday) and what does ansible bring to it to provide in the news ? Do you have a blog post with some asciinema / video to demonstrate so we can put a link to ? Best

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On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 17:35, Melanie Corr ***@***.***> wrote: The Pulp team have just announced Pulp Squeezer - an Ansible collection to manage Pulp. Read more at: https://pulpproject.org/2020/07/16/pulp-squeezer-0.0.1-available/ — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#546 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAACDA2B5KQ3UBZZEDY3UBDR4BVTVANCNFSM4O2ZOYPQ> .

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[melcorr]

Seems a good information that worth to be spread but could it be nice to have some explanation about what is pulp (I never heard until yesterday) and what does ansible bring to it to provide in the news ? Do you have a blog post with some asciinema / video to demonstrate so we can put a link to ? Best
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Of course. That makes sense!

Pulp is a platform for managing repositories of software packages and making them available to a large number of consumers. Pulp can locally mirror all or part of a repository, host your own software packages in repositories, and manage many types of content from multiple sources in one place. If you’re an Ansible user who does not want to host your private content on Ansible Galaxy, you can add the Pulp Ansible plugin, mirror the public Ansible content that you require, and use Pulp as an on-premise platform to manage and distribute a scalable blend of public and private Ansible roles and collections across your organization. You can do this also for content types like Debian packages, RPMs, Containers, and Python content - to name but a few. With Pulp Squeezer, you can now manage your Pulp deployment with Ansible modules. For more information, see https://pulpproject.org/

Would this be OK?

Edit: I will try and also get an asciinema!

[felixfontein]

@melcorr out of curiosity, what's the relation to the pulp_repo module (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/pulp_repo_module.html)? (Or do they just happen to share a name?)

[melcorr]

@melcorr out of curiosity, what's the relation to the pulp_repo module (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/pulp_repo_module.html)? (Or do they just happen to share a name?)

Hey @felixfontein

From what I can tell, this is a community contribution for an earlier version of Pulp - Pulp 2. The latest release - Pulp 3 - has brought many changes: https://pulpproject.org/about-pulp-3/

So it is the same Pulp, but an earlier release :)

[evgeni]

I couldn't resist writing more ;)

Building and publishing documentation for Ansible Collections

EDITOR: Accepted for issue 7, thanks!