* Replace InventoryFileCacheModule with a better developer-interface
Use new interface for inventory plugins with backwards compatibility
Auto-update the backing cache-plugin if the cache has changed after parsing the inventory plugin
* Update CacheModules to use the config system and add a deprecation warning if they are being imported directly rather than using cache_loader
* Fix foreman inventory caching
* Add tests
* Add integration test to check that fact caching works normally with cache plugins using ansible.constants and inventory caching provides a helpful error for non-compatible cache plugins
* Add some developer documentation for inventory and cache plugins
* Add user documentation for inventory caching
* Add deprecation docs
* Apply suggestions from docs review
* Add changelog
* Add a new check to ensure that module arguments are valid python identifiers
* Move the check up higher, out of the if docs block
* Skip validate-modules on py2
* Remove errant alias
Based on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html
the default callback paths do not contain `_plugin`. Thus `~/.ansible/plugins/callback_plugins` and `/usr/share/ansible/plugins/plugin_type/action_plugins` are incorrect. Verified on 2.7.5 that by default `plugins/action` works and `plugins/action_plugins` does not.
* update the developing_inventory docs to show ungrouped as a dict with a "children" key; avoid
[WARNING]: Found both group and host with same name: ungrouped
* validate-modules: Documentation bool
This check allows to catch cases where type of argument is different than documentation does.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
* Wrong comparison for 'str'
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
* Add ignore.txt
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
* Fix logic and clean up ignore.txt
* standardize user/password connection vars
* docs: use ansible_user and ansible_password
* docs: var precedence for connection vars
* docs: ansible_become_pass -> ansible_become_password etc
* Changed 'Control Machine' to 'Control Node' in the documentation. Changing the term 'Control Machine' to 'Control Node', to be in line with the basic concepts here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/getting_started/basic_concepts.html
Also for both entities; Control/Managed using the same common denominator 'Node' brings consistency.
* Updated reference links to new term.
* promote doc_fragments into actual plugins
change tests hardcoded path to doc fragments
avoid sanity in fragments
avoid improper testing of doc_fragments
also change runner paths
fix botmeta
updated comment for fragments
updated docs
Add a section to the documentation describing precisely how Ansible
merges custom module_utils/* Python code into the "ansible.module_utils"
namespace.
* Docs: Add a separate "seealso" section to the module docs
to list related modules and/or related references. This clears up the notes
section for things that are actual notes.
So you can add a section in your module documentation and four types of
references are possible.
seealso:
# Reference by module name
- module: aci_tenant
# Reference by module name, including description
- module: aci_tenant
description: ACI module to create tenants on a Cisco ACI fabric.
# Reference by rST documentation anchor
- ref: aci_guide
description: Detailed information on how to manage your ACI infrastructure using Ansible.
# Reference by Internet resource
- name: APIC Management Information Model reference
description: Complete reference of the APIC object model.
link: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/apic-mim-ref/
This PR also includes:
- Implements ansible-doc support
- Implements schema support for the seealso options
- Updates to the development documentation
- Rename filter convert_symbols_to_format to rst_ify, cfr the existing html_ify and tty_ify filters
- This makes the existing template a lot easier to read and fixes the confusion I had myself rereading the template (again).
- We fixed the possible suboption types (which was limited to 'bool' only)
* Use latest stable instead of devel docs
* Added recommendation about module name
Added general guidelines for naming a module.
Fixes: #19665
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
The ansible-test shell command doesn't have a --python option; you
have to specify the tox environment directly to the --tox command
Partially fixes: #49349
* XenServer related modules - initial commit
- New module_util: xenserver. Contains common module arguments, functions
and classes useful for future XenServer related modules.
- New module_docs_fragment: xenserver. Describes common module arguments.
- New module: xenserver_guest. Supports VM deployment, reconfiguration,
removal, detection of changes, state management, fact gathering and
Ansible check mode. Module is fully documented.
- Updated: developing_module_utilities.rst.
- Module params, workflow and some functions are based on or taken from
vmware_guest module.
* Implemented support for configuring custom VM params in xenserver_guest module
* Compatibility fixes and documentation update
- xenserver module_util: implemented support for XenAPI.py version older
than 7.2.
- xenserver module_util: PEP8 fixes.
- xenserver module_util: Added missing imports.
- xenserver module_util: Copyright notice fixes.
- xenserver_guest module: updated module documentation with notes regarding
module requirements and compatibility.
- xenserver_guest module: bumped version_added to 2.7.
- xenserver_guest module: minor fixes.
* VM power state management refactoring, subargument specs in xenserver_guest module, other fixes
- VM power state management code moved from xenserver_guest module to xenserver
module_util (set_vm_power_state function).
- Code for waiting for VM IP address moved from xenserver_guest module to
xenserver module_util (wait_for_vm_ip_address function).
- xenserver module_util: implemented get_object_ref function to clean up
a lot of repeated code in xenserver_guest module.
- xenserver module_util: added additional aliases 'host' and 'pool' for
'hostname' common module argument. They are more in line with what
XenServer users are familiar with.
- xenserver module_util: minor fixes.
- xenserver_guest module: removed VM state management other than 'present',
'absent' and 'poweredon'. Other states are to be managed by separate module.
- xenserver_guest module: added subargument specs and cleaned up custom code
for subargument validation.
- xenserver_guest module: reorganized code for disk and network reconfiguation
to minimize code duplication.
- xenserver_guest module: renamed 'cdrom.iso' module argument to
'cdrom.iso_name', avoids cryptic error message when parameter is
missing.
- xenserver_guest module: documentation update.
- xenserver_guest module: changes in error messages.
- xenserver_guest module: minor fixes.
* Implemented guest OS network parameter configuration and other
- xenserver module_util: moved code for validating MAC addresses from
xenserver_guest module and implemented a range of functions for validating
IP addresses and related entities and converting prefixes to netmasks and
vice versa.
- xenserver module_util: updated fact gathering code to support guest OS
network parameters.
- xenserver module_util: added docstrings.
- xenserver module_util: minor changes.
- xenserver_guest module: implemented support for guest OS network parameter
configuration.
- xenserver_guest module: changed CD-ROM handling code.
- xenserver_guest module: changed so that user friendly version of changes
list is always returned in module result.
- xenserver_guest module: error message changes.
- xenserver_guest module: added docstrings.
- xenserver_guest module: documentation update.
- xenserver_guest module: minor changes and fixes.
* Various fixes and code cleanup
- xenserver module_util: implemented get_xenserver_version function.
- xenserver module_util: moved customization agent detection code to
gather_vm_params function. customization_agent variable is now part of
vm_params. An exception in customization agent detection code that prevented
deployment of new VMs is also fixed.
- xenserver module_util: added support for alternative VM state names with
dash and underscore in set_power_state function.
- xenserver_guest module: removed customization agent detection code
as it is now implemented in xenserver module_util.
- xenserver_guest module: fixed a bug in xenserver_data update code that
occured when "networks.mac" was not specified in module params and
other fixes.
- xenserver_guest module: some code cleanup.
- xenserver_guest module: bumped version_added to 2.8.
* Support skip of platforms by version in tests.
Previously a remote platform could be skipped completely using the alias:
`skip/{platform}` such as `skip/rhel`
Now a specific platform version can be skipped using the alias:
`skip/{platform}{version}` such as `skip/rhel7.6`
This feature is available for platforms specified with the `--remote` option.
* Add skip by version to the docs.
