Ansible Weekly, Issue 51

added the ability to set "instance filters" in the ec2.ini to limit results from the inventory plugin.
added a new "follow" parameter to the file and copy modules, which allows actions to be taken on the target of a symlink rather than the symlink itself.

1.7.2 "Summer Nights" - Sep 24, 2014

Bug fixes:

bug fix in accelerate mode which caused a traceback when trying to use that connection method.
bug fix in vault where the password file option was not being used correctly internally.
improved multi-line parsing when using YAML literal blocks (using > or |).
bug fix for the file module and the creation of relative symlinks.
bug fix for checkmode not being honored during the templating of files.
other various bug fixes.

Bug fixes:

1.7.1 "Summer Nights" - Aug 14, 2014

security fix to disallow specifying 'args:' as a string, which could allow the insertion of extra module parameters through variables.
performance enhancements related to previous security fixes, which could cause slowness when modules returned very large JSON results. This specifically impacted the unarchive module frequently, which returns the details of all unarchived files in the result.
Docker module bug fixes:
fixed support for specifying rw/ro bind modes for volumes
fixed support for allowing the tag in the image parameter
other various bug fixes

For more details, see the CHANGELOG.

Events

Ansible, Inc.

October 14, San Francisco, CA > AnsibleFest 2014 San Francisco

North America

October 1, Arlington, NE > Ansible

October 7, Los Angeles, CA > Breaking up with your datacenter (and moving to AWS)

October 11, Corvallis, OR > DevOps DayCamp

October 13, Fort Collins, CO > Throwdown: Ansible vs. Salt

October 15, Los Angeles, CA > Kickoff meeting

November 22–23, Toronto, Canada > Scaling EventMobi: From Monolithic PHP to Distributed Python Microservice Architecture

Europe

September 29, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible and Drupal

October 4-5, Zagreb, Croatia > WebCamp Zagreb 2014: Ansible, just orchestrate it

October 17, Bordeaux, France > [CONF] RUN | PROVISION | DEPLOY - Your Workstation in Production

October 23, Helsinki, Finland > 3rd OpenStackFin User Group meetup

November 10–12, Mannheim, Germany > Continuous Lifecycle 2014: Automatisieren mit Ansible

November 20, Cardiff, United Kingdom > Unified Diff

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