reason: The link is showing verbatim in the docs, where it should only
show "knowledge base article".
Also, generating the docs shows a lot of:
docs/docsite/rst/win_acl_module.rst:424: WARNING: Unknown target name: "know ledge base article<https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-top-support-policies>".
* Improve and link Network Proxy docs
It is possible for proxy issues to cause "unable to open shell", so
detail there.
Having the "how-to" in the debug page makes more sense than on the
porting page, so move it.
Fixed a few formatting issues at the same time.
* Edits
* typo
It's almost always preferable to clone by way of https:// rather than
using the bare git:// protocol. Not only does https:// provide
stronger guarantees it also plays nicer with corporate proxies, etc.
* Update playbooks_blocks.rst
The rescue section documentation should be clear that successful completion of a rescue section will override other error handling behavior.
* more precise rescue docs
explains in detail the consequences of successful rescue
* updated docs
- for devs:
- added inventory/vars section
- made some updates to general section and other plugin types
- for users:
- added 'user' plugin section to start describing the plugins
- docs on types, what they are and how to use
- removed ref to deleted AUTHORS file
- corrected several typos/headers
- added descriptions to config.rst template
- ignore generated files for cli/plugins and config
- remove new generated files on `make clean`
- moved details from devguid and intro doc to plugin specific pages
- pretied up lookup notes
- changed precedence ref to not conflict config
- removed duplicate config data, as config is autogenerated and up to date
- put new plugins under playbooks
- added `pass` cause rst/python dislikes fractions
- removed dupe in .gitignore, alpha sorted to avoid moar dupes
- added try cause rst/python freaks out
* generate plugins into their own dir
only do plugins that support docs
use toctree from main plugins page
As discussed before we selected win_environment to the documentation,
and point to win_uri for a more advanced module.
If we want to make this the reference module, we have to get this one
absolutely right in every possible way.
This PR cleans up both win_environment and win_uri, and makes the
required changes to the windows module development section.
As outlined in https://docs.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#integers,
sys.maxint doesn't exist anymore in Python 3.x because there is no maximum
value for integers in Python 3.x. sys.maxsize is present in all
versions of Python that are currently supported by Ansible, so use that
instead as an arbitrarily large index value.
Fixes the following build error when building with Python 3.x:
make -j1 docs
mkdir -p ./docs/man/man1/ ; \
PYTHONPATH=./lib docs/bin/generate_man.py --template-file=docs/templates/man.j2 --output-dir=docs/man/man1/ --output-format man lib/ansible/cli/*.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "docs/bin/generate_man.py", line 253, in <module>
allvars[cli_name] = opts_docs(cli_class_name, cli_name)
File "docs/bin/generate_man.py", line 119, in opts_docs
'long_desc': trim_docstring(cli.__doc__),
File "docs/bin/generate_man.py", line 34, in trim_docstring
indent = sys.maxint
AttributeError: module 'sys' has no attribute 'maxint'
make: *** [Makefile:347: generate_asciidoc] Error 1
Generate rst docs for plugins
Based on rst generated for modules. But generated plugin
docs go into docs/docsite/rst/plugins/$PLUGIN_TYPE/plugin_name.rst
( docs/docsite/rst/plugins/connection/ssh.py for ex)
* move plugins docs to rst/*_plugins/ subdirs for namespace
* Only gen support pages for modules for now.
* Add generated plugin docs to gitignore* add list_*_plugins templates
* support MODULES/PLUGINS filters for make htmldocs
Add a 'PLUGINS=ssh' filter env var like MODULES to filter plugins to build docs for.
* fixup 'historical' version_added, skip plugins/loader.py
* Fix plugins_by_support ref link to new plugins/*/ location
* use :ref: for common_return_values, allow empty version_added
* warnings on missing doc info
* add a prefix to _random_choice
It was colliding with the target for random_choice plugin
Addtions to porting_guide_2.4
* deprecated notice for win_package return values
* Added vars plugins, config api, inventory plugins. These were mostly backwards compatible.
Added notes for users and devs to check out new features once i write the 'feature docs' I'll
come back and link to them from here
* Porting Guides for Ansible Versions
Improve the user facing documentation.
Tell people what changes they need to make
* More porting guides
* Link porting guides from TOC
* Link porting guides from CHANGELOG.md
* typo in link
* Review feedback
* Better CHANGELOG links
* Better links
* code blocks
* Minor changes
* Correct links, comment out network section in 2.4
* Typos
* Revert non 2.4 changes
* Add placeholders for other items
* multiple inventory
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* Update porting_guide_2.4.rst
* add win_command/win_shell escaping notes
* Added some windows porting info
* Edit for grammar
* Correct links, delete Net Platform Agnostic
* 2.5 link
* Network changes in 2.4
* facts_namespacing was pushed back to 2.5
Due to lack of time we pushed this back to 2.5 so that the facts in the namespace could be shortened.
* Python version
* Remove FIXMEs - move to seperate PR
* Consistency and document treatment of default bool values
* Document that default bool values can be any Ansible recognized bool.
choose the one that reads better in context
* For fragments used by the copy module, make bool types use type=bool and not choices
* Edit for clarity
* Fix refs for local_facts and various cli :option:
* Fix dev_guide/testing_pep8 refs
* remove ref to non-existing 'developing_test_pr'
* Fix ref to ansible-vault encrypt_string
* Removed hard-to-localize colloquialism.
* Rename '_ansible-pull' in playbooks_intro.
It was conflicting with rst/ansible-pull.rst. Nothing
seems to reference it.
* Add explicit targets for and update refs
Replace some ':doc:' use with ':ref:'.
Replace some :ref: to section names with explicit targets
(:doc:`Dynamic vs. Static` -> :ref:`dynamic_vs_static` etc)
* The 'YAML+Jinja' syntax lex fails here, so just use yaml
Since the yaml+jinja highlight fails, code wasnt highlighted
at all, but 'yaml' works more or less.
* just use no lexer for the < python2.6 examples
py3 will fail highlighting them, and 'python2' throws
a lexer warning, and nothing actually highlights it, so
just disable.
Fixes#29060
Allow delegate_to if transport is either nxapi or eapi.
Persistent connection uses `cli` transport and create
a local socket on control node. Hence delegate_to is not allowed
for `cli` transport.
However as `nxapi` and `eapi` transport does not use persistent connection
it is possible to use delegate_to in this case.
from __future__ unicode_literals leads to developer confusion as
developers no longer can tell whether a bare literal string is a byte
string or a unicode string. Explicit marking as u"" or b"" is the way
to solve the same problem in the Ansbile codebase.
* Use a rst glossary for playbooks_keywords docs
* Add a 'Task' and 'Tasks' to glossary.
* Update keywords desciptions,
* use :term: rst ref, some quoting
* Make it more obvious that 'retries' and 'until' need to be used in combination.
* let generate_man also gen rst pages for cli tools
* make template-file, output-dir, output format cli options for generate_man
* update main Makefile to use generate_man.py for docs (man pages and rst)
* update vault docs that use :option:
* Edits based on
6e34ea6242 and
a3afc78535
* add a optparse 'desc' to lib/ansible/cli/config.py
The man page needs a short desc for the 'NAME' field
which it gets from the option parse 'desc' value.
Fixes building ansible-config man page.
* add trim_docstring from pep257 to generate_man
use pep258 docstring trim function to fix up any indention
weirdness inherit to doc strings (ie, lines other than
first line being indented.
* Add refs to cli command actions
To reference ansible-vaults --vault-id option, use:
:option:`The link text here <ansible-vault --vault-id>`
or:
:option:`--vault-id <ansible-vault --vault-id>`
To reference ansible-vault's 'encrypt' action, use:
:ref:`The link text here <ansible_vault_encrypt>`
or most of the time:
:ref:`ansible-vault encrypt <ansible_vault_encrypt>`
Since json_query treats backticks as delimiters for literals,
some of the examples in the json_query docs can be made a little
simpler. Rather than replacing such examples, demonstrate the
alternative
The variable was pointing to a file with a `.cer` extension but the curl command downloads a `.pem` file which makes executions of the bash script fail
* start rst docs for ansible-vault encrypt_string
* wip, vault format docs
(sorta markdown ish atm)
* wip - formatting
* wip, vault docs
* Fix refs to other docs for now
fixing default_role in conf.py will remove need
for this
* add 'ref' to cli names
* more vault docs
* wip, misc fixes
* add some encrypt_string examples
* Fix up rstcheck warnings
The code blocks in question included the output that would
be echo'ed from running the command, which isnt valid bash.
* fix formatting and rstcheck warnings about code-block
* Add envvar ref for ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE
* fix doc title
* Fixed title underline
* Edit pass for relocated community documentation.
* Updated info on Ansibullbot
Fixed improper link syntax
Change links to point to new documents
Changed Ansibot to Ansibullbot
Clarified workflow
Change formatting on commans and tags
* Update communication.rst
Add Contents
Use correct headings
* Update communication.rst
* Topics, remove whitespace, codeofconduct
* Formatting
* Correct heading
* Update maintainers.rst
* Minor edits and a request for more info
* Removed some hard-to-localize wording.
* Removed incomplete sentence
* Minor edits per review
* wip, gen docs from config/base.yml
* wip
* dont change conf.py here
* cleanup, add dump_config --template-file cli opt
* some desc are string, some are lists...
TODO: fix base.yml so it is consistent
* Filter out TODO and empty descriptions
* Can be set via env, credential profile, or module arg
* Valid values defined by Azure Python SDK, currently `AzureCloud`,`AzureChinaCloud`,`AzureUSGovernment`,`AzureGermanCloud` or any Azure Stack metadata discovery URL.
* Revise and link inline to the lists of modules
* Fix jinja2 objects.inv fallback path
* Fix bolding of deprecation marker
* Change module_support to link to lists via :doc:
That links to the top of the page instead of a section.
* Add a short text for each list of maintained modules
* Change maintenance info to only display on core and network modules
* Fix 'the the' typos, fix 'pahting' filename typo
* Change 'the the' typos to a single 'the'.
* Change `playbook_pahting.rst` to `playbook_pathing.rst`.
* Delete trailing space in ec2_vol example
Delete the trailing space in `instance: "{{ item.id }} "`, which makes the
example fail when run because it looks for instance "i-xxxx ".
This change fixes two issues with the generated return table:
1. When specifying a list of strings in the 'description' field of a
return value, it shows them in Python list syntax on the resulting
web page, e.g. `['a', 'b', 'c']`.
2. When specifying more than one line for the 'sample' field, the
result table gets damaged in the HTML output.
In addition, this change re-arranges the HTML tags produced in the
generated RST file such that they line up nicely and can better be
checked by humans for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Maier <andreas.r.maier@gmx.de>
* Use a template to generate the category lists
* Refactor so that we first extract all of the data that we need to
build the docs and then give that data to the templates to build with
* Add docs page listing modules ordered by support level
* Add network value to support_by field.
* New support_by value, certified
* Deprecate curated in favor of certified
* Add conversion from 1.0 to 1.1 to metadata-tool
* Add supported by Red Hat field to ansible-doc output
* Added cyberarkpassword lookup plugin
Added cyberarkpassword lookup plugin: It allows to retrieve credentials
(password, sshkey) from CyberArk Digital Vault
In case we build docs offline, we want to have a cached copy of the
documentation refs that are in the intersphinx docs we reference.
Update those to the lattest versions from their respective upstreams
1. Copied over content from existing rst/community.rst page (which will be refactored once all these pages are in.)
2. For features, pointed to the Proposals section, which we should probably leave in ansible/proposals, where it is actively used.
* Adapt azure_rm_resource_group to azure 2.0.0 + azure Cli support
* Fix exceptions in Azure ARM plugins
* update azure_rm_networkinterface documention to reflect required params
* change state param to not required for docs in azure_rm_subnet
* fix import to reflect azure==2.0.0 changes
* add aliases and fix docs for azure_rm_storageblob
* add resource_group_name alias to azure_rm_storageaccount_facts
* fix import bug due to change in azure==2.0.0
* fix args bug and enum modules issue
* update docs to reflect azure==2.0.0
* pin management clients to a specific api_version
* update docs to reflect the new azure-ansible-base python package
* add fallback for older api resource group listing
* rework azure dependencies installation
* refactor path joining to a cross-plat solution
Unfortunately, the Github interface does no longer allow me to edit a file in the GUI and then branch it in my personal clone for making a PR. It now only offers to make a PR using a branch on the ansible repository :-(
So committing this directly instead against my will, but per the guidelines this appears to be safe. Fingers crossed...
We are reserving the _ identifier for i18n work. Code should use the
identifier dummy for dummy variables instead.
This test is currently skipped as someone needs to generate the list of
files which are currently out of compliance before this can be turned
on.
* Implement ability to limit module documentation building:
- Added new option to plugin_formatter.py to support passing-in a list of
modules for which the documentation should be built.
- Updated docuemtnation Makefile to allow specifying list of modules via
environment variables (defaulting to all modules).
- Update instructions for building documentation and module development to
include commands and description of limiting module documentation builds.
* Updated implementation for limiting module documentation building:
- Pass list of modules (or None) to list_modules function instead of string.
- Move conversion of module list to argument parsing code.
- No special keywords. Default ("") means build all modules. For no modules just
specify non-existing module name.
- Updated documentation to reflect the changes.
* Updated implementation for limiting module documentation building:
- Use better default value, and don't treat "" as special case.
- Conditionally invoke different variants of command in Makefile instead of
using special value "".
* Minor edits
Wording tweak
* Create get_exception and wildcard import code-smell tests
* Add more detail to boilerplate and no-basestring descriptions
* Remove the no-list-cmp test as the pylint undefined-variable test covers it
* ManageIQ: manageiq_user module, module utils and doc_fragment
ManageIQ is an open source management platform for Hybrid IT.
This change is adding:
- manageiq_user module, responsible for user management in ManageIQ
- manageiq utils
- manageiq doc_fragment
* Handle import error
* Use formatting options
* group parameter is required
* changed doesn't need to be an attribute
* resource dictionary should contain values which isn't None
* move from monitoring to remote-management
* Use ManageIQ nameing convention
* Do not set defauts in arguments
* Use idempotent state parameter instead of action
* Check import error in the manageiq util class
* Update the miq documentation
* rename the connection configuration from miq to manageiq_connection
* All messeges start with non cap, fix typos, add examples, rename vars
* more typos fixes
* Make sure we insert only strings to logs by using % formating
* use suboptions keyword for the manageiq connection
* do not log the managiq connection struct (it include sensitive information like username and password)
* add missing from __future__
* ahh, wrong no-log line
* Use sub options
* Added placeholder topics for community info
* Setup community section index.
* Initial move of triage process docs.
* Typo/test
* Removed triage topic from index.
This allows a single template to be evaluated with different values in
the same task. For example, with a template like 'x:{{a}}', one could do
something like this:
- foo:
a: "{{ lookup('template', 'x.j2', template_vars=dict(a=foo[item])) }}"
b: "{{ lookup('template', 'x.j2', template_vars=dict(a=bar[item])) }}"
with_items:
- x
- y
…and "a" and "b" would expand to different strings based on what we
passed in to the template lookup.
* Add command_timeout timer that defines the amount
of time to wait for a command or RPC call before
timing out.
* Remove connect_retries and connect_interval configuration
varaible and replace it with connect_retry_timeout to control
the timeout value of connection to local scoket.
* Make required changes to netowrk action plugins and relevant
network files in module_utils.
* Required documentation changes.
* Added initial developing module doc for Windows
* Added to dev index, made formatting changes and moved obsolete docs
* changes based on PR feedback
* some typos and extra information
* Minor updates
* minor wording clarifications
* remove references to "remote" Windows hosts
* update template/text to remove legacy `#WANT_JSON`/`#POWERSHELL_COMMON`
* use per-execution envvars for ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES instead of stateful
* fix up minor sanity check issue
* Revert "Update conventions in azure modules"
This reverts commit 30a688d8d3.
* Revert "Allow specific __future__ imports in modules"
This reverts commit 3a2670e0fd.
* Revert "Fix wildcard import in galaxy/token.py"
This reverts commit 6456891053.
* Revert "Fix one name in module error due to rewritten VariableManager"
This reverts commit 87a192fe66.
* Revert "Disable pylint check for names existing in modules for test data"
This reverts commit 6ac683ca19.
* Revert "Allow ini plugin to load file using other encoding than utf8."
This reverts commit 6a57ad34c0.
We do want to allow certain from __future__ imports in modules that make
it easier to code compatible python2 and python3. Note that
unicode_literals is specifically left out and should never be allowed.
Now that python-3.4+ allows u"" there's no good reason to use
unicode_literals.
Also switch tables in the validate_modules documentation to simple table format
- New option for ini plugins: encoding
- Add a new option encoding to _get_file_contents
- Use replace option in test/runner/lib/util.py when calling decode on stdout/err
output when diff have non-utf8 sequences
* use git+https:// in the example url because not everyone will have ssh
keys registered on github
* Remove the link to the github tarballs as they do not work. users can
use releases.ansible.com instead.
This commit:
- Adds a table highlighting the status of each version and provides
a link to each major release's changelog
- Re-inforces how stable versions are maintained and for how long
- Moves this documentation out of the developer tree (this is
interesting for users too!) while keeping a link there.
* Add local_action example in case of multiple arguments
Add an example to show how local_action can be used in case of multiple arguments.
* Update playbooks_delegation.rst
* #27045 fix installation guide via apt (ubuntu)
* Update intro_installation.rst
Re-added apt-get update as it is needed to get the latest package index from ppa:ansible/ansible
* Adding ciscowlc_command module and unit tests.
* Adding __init__.py for unit test.
* Fixing PEP8 W503.
* Renaming module from ciscowlc_command to aire_command.
* Renaming aire_command to aireos_command.
* Add note on module development about the copyrights
This matches what's in CODING_GUIDELINES.md as of July 2017
* Add recommendation for standardizing on `Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project`
* s/with/should have/
* Fix more unicode
* Adding aruba_command module along with unit tests.
* Fixing PEP8 E303 too many blank lines.
* Adding default for timeout.
* Removing unused arguments. Moving default for timeout argument. Fixing cliconf to find hostname.
* Fixing PEP8 E302.
* All integration commands support --continue-on-error
* The network-integration command supports --inventory
* Add landing page for compile test docs.
* Add bot documentation links.
* WIP: Initial bulk move of quick start content into rst docs. Needs rewrite.
* Swapping out old quick start for new material (thanks @tstringer!). Still work in progress.
* Fixed formatting; removed extraneous file.
* Fixed some formatting errors.
* Once more, with feeling.
* Fixed formatting error
* Restructure roadmap so that we can link to sub-parts
So we want to point to specific subsections in the roadmap from the Working Group pages.
This requires the use of subtitles rather than a long list of items and sub-items.
* RST syntax is hard...
* Fixes as requested
* Another fix
* Converted all ROADMAPs to new format
* filetree: Add documentation for lookup plugin
This is the missing documentation for the filetree lookup plugin.
* Fix typo
* Edits for grammar and clarity
* Tell people to look for an existing module PR
There are a number of different ways to find existing PRs that add new
modules. Tell people about them to potentially avoid duplicates.
* Light edits
The note only had one colon instead of two, which allowed it to pass rstcheck but failed to actually generate the note in the HTML.
Also remove an unnecessary trailing colon.
* Initial commit for Pure Storage Ansible module
* Initial commit for Pure Storage Ansible module
* Initial commit for Pure Storage Ansible module
* Fix import issues as required by post-2.2
* Move last import to top
* Follow suggestions and only implement one module per PR
Fix documentation changes requested
* Documentation and formatting changes
* netscaler_service initial implementation
* Changes as requested by reviewers
* Skip some tests if under python2.6 and importing requests library
* Change option "operation" to "state"
* Remove print statements from netscaler module utils
* Catch all exceptions during login
* Fix fail message
* Add common option save_config
* Allow template files to be vaulted
* Make sure to import exceptions we need
* get_real_file can't take bytes, since it looks specifically for string_types
* Now that we aren't using open() we don't need b_source
* Expand playbooks_vault docs to include modules that support vaulted src files
* Add vaulted template test
Initial commit to split includes into static imports/dynamic includes
This implements the new include/import syntax for Ansible 2.4:
* include_{tasks,role,variables} = dynamic
* import_{playbook,tasks,role} = static
The old bare `include` will be considered deprecated, as will any use of the `static: {yes|no}` option.
This also adds docs for import/include and reorganizing the "Playbook Reuse" section of the documentation.
* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample
- split classes, moved out of init
- extra debug statements
- allow mulitple invenotry files
- dont add hosts more than once
- simplified host vars
- since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
- ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
- centralized localhost handling
- added plugin docs
- leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
- moved noop vars plugin
- added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
- fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
- grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
- playbook_dir allways full path
- use bytes for file operations
- better handling of empty/null sources
- added test target that skips networking modules
- now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
- centralized play setup repeat code
- updated changelog with inv features
- asperioribus verbis spatium album
- fixed dataloader to new sig
- made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
- nicer error msgs
- fixed undeclared group detection
- fixed 'ungrouping'
- docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
- made behaviour of var merge a toggle
- made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
- updated add_host/group from strategy
- made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
- added advanced_host_list as example variation
- refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
- optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
- removed unused code and tests
- added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
- added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
- vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
- require yaml extension for yaml
- fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
- fix py3 issues
- added --inventory as clearer option
- return name when stringifying host objects
- ajdust checks to code moving
* reworked vars and vars precedence
- vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
- precedence for host vars is now configurable
- vars_plugins been reworked
- removed unused vars cache
- removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
- cleaned up tests
- fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
- removed version added notation to please rst check
- inventory in config relative to config
- ensures full paths on passed inventories
* implicit localhost connection local
* Add operation and read timeout variables to docs
Since WinRM is not the most reliable protocol, it may be necessary to increase its timeout values to get a better experience.
* Update intro_windows.rst
Great idea to add this.
I changed 'experienced' -> 'experience' (present continuous rather than past tense). Added some . to be consistent with other lines.
* aws integration tests - provide an IAM policy that can be used for running them
* move documentation of aws policies into main integration testing documentation + some updates there
* Update testing_integration.rst
Edits
CVE-2017-7481
Lookup returns wrap the result in unsafe, however when used through the
standard templar engine, this does not result in the jinja2 environment being
marked as unsafe as a whole. This means the lookup result looses the unsafe
protection and may become simple unicode strings, which can result in bad
things being re-templated.
This also adds a global lookup param and cfg options for lookups to allow
unsafe returns, so users can force the previous (insecure) behavior.
The makefile in docs/api/ had a top level check for the
'sphinx-build' tool, but the check was getting triggered
on 'make clean' when it is not needed and causing 'make rpm'
and similar builds to fail.
So this commit removes the check.
Fixes#24163
* Added test for 'RETURN' field in validate-modules
* print the field being tested.
Useful when the RETURN structure is complex.
* Fixed schema after CI traceback fail
* Fixed list_string_types
* Fixed line in 319 code for RETURN
* Big testing doc refactor
* Combine all the testing documentation in to one place to make it easier to find
* Convert everything to RST
* Create testing_network guide
* Create testing landing page
* For each section detail "how to run" and "how to extend testing"
* More examples
* Lots more detail
* Document deprecation of fetch module validate_md5 and update --tags merging deprecation
Update the default of --tags merging config option to merge by default
* Update CHANGELOG.md
Minor edit
This setting allows us to reference jinja2 and python stdlib docs
via docutils refs instead of hardcoding urls.
Fixes#18039
Remove extraneous sphinx config
* Add example task succeeding when RC is non-zero
I added an example on how to use the return code to decide yourself
what is considered a failure.
This might have helped for #23679.
* Use diff as example command, instead of robocopy
* Windows: Add Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation
As discussed during the Windows Working Group meeting we do want
documentation on running Ansible on Windows as it may help grow
the Windows/Ansible community and does work out-of-the-box.
However we do take care to emphasize that WSL is not fit for
production use.
* Update intro_windows.rst
Edits for mechanics and clarity.
The Python3 dev doc is more general than just modules
* Rename it to make that obvious.
* Move generally applicable Python3 information to the Controller section
* Add a Py3/Py2 section on formatting strings
* Fix code-blocks to highlight as python
* Enhance python3 support page
* Add Python3/Python2 compat note
Due to the number of "real world" caveats in the current runas become method, it was agreed that we'd warn that it's experimental on use. A potential future version based on LogonUser/CreateProcessAsUser will have very different requirements and limitations.
* fix 'sequence' lookup shortcut syntax and documentation
* Update playbooks_loops.rst
Minor edits for grammar and clarity.
* Update playbooks_loops.rst
Another tweak for clarity.
* Updated 2.4 roadmap for final publish
* Update ROADMAP_2_4.rst
* Remove "code refactor and unit tests"
This is just technical debt work, and not note-worthy for the roadmap
* Update ROADMAP_2_4.rst
* Update ROADMAP_2_4.rst
* Update module_utils.six to latest
We've been held back on the version of six we could use on the module
side to 1.4.x because of python-2.4 compatibility. Now that our minimum
is Python-2.6, we can update to the latest version of six in
module_utils and get rid of the second copy in lib/ansible/compat.
* cloudstack: fix connection by ENV vars and configs overloading
* cloudstack: pep8 cloudstack module_utils
* cloudstack: allow api_url to be set in ini config
* docsite: explain ENV vars support as written in python-cs for ansible
Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
Raise the bar for module `DOCUMENTAION`
This validator update was used to find the issues in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22297/files
**Validation**
* Updated Validation and docs to enforce more (items fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22297/files)
* Use `suboptions` to document complex options
* Validate module name
* Validate deprecated modules have correct ANSIBLE_METADATA
**Module Documentation Generation**
* Document `suboptions:` Example https://gist.github.com/gundalow/4bdc3669d696268328ccc18528cc6718
* Tidy up HTML generation (valid HTML, no empty lists, etc)
**Documentation**
* Clarify the steps for deprecating a module
* Use correct RST headings
* Document `suboptions:` (options)
* Document `contains:` (returns)
**Details**
The aim is to get this (and corresponding module updates) complete by the time `devel` becomes `2.4`, as this allows us to raise the bar for new modules
Example `suboptions` https://gist.github.com/gundalow/4bdc3669d696268328ccc18528cc6718
The aim is to get this PR integrated into `devel` *before* we branch `stable-2.3`, this will allows us to:
* Raise the bar for new modules in 2.4
* Ensure the generated module documentation for 2.3 and higher is improved, important as we will be doing versioned docs moving forward.
The existing examples in the "Gotchas" section were rather simple. Expanded upon those to add some additional clarity around how the quoting in YAML works.
* Added example of referring to AWS-credentials
.. when they're stored in variables. Spent few hours trying to figure out why credentials from vault/variables were not used.
* Update guide_aws.rst
Edited for grammar.
* inventory: test 'all' & 'ungrouped' groups created by default
* Mention default groups 'all' & 'ungrouped'
* Update intro_inventory.rst
Minor grammatical edit.
This commit also adds a new test script (ansible-var-precedence-check.py in code-smell/)
to provide us with another line of defense against precedence bugs going forward.
The precedence docs state that the INI vars have a lower precedence than group/host
vars files for inventory and playbooks, however that has not been the case since 2.0
was released. This change fixes that in one way, though not exactly as the docs say.
The rules are:
1) INI/script < inventory dir < playbook dir
2) "all" group vars < other group_vars < host_vars
So the new order will be (from the test script mentioned above):
8. pb_host_vars_file - var in playbook/host_vars/host
9. ini_host_vars_file - var in inventory/host_vars/host
10. ini_host - host var inside the ini
11. pb_group_vars_file_child - var in playbook/group_vars/child
12. ini_group_vars_file_child - var in inventory/group_vars/child
13. pb_group_vars_file_parent - var in playbook/group_vars/parent
14. ini_group_vars_file_parent - var in inventory/group_vars/parent
15. pb_group_vars_file_all - var in playbook/group_vars/all
16. ini_group_vars_file_all - var in inventory/group_vars/all
17. ini_child - child group var inside the ini
18. ini_parent - parent group var inside the ini
19. ini_all - all group var inside the ini
Fixes#21845
* Add role skeleton support
The default role skeleton used by ansible-galaxy is good, but it doesn't
allow organizations to customize it to suit their needs. This patch
addresses that by adding the option to point ansible-galaxy at a
role skeleton directory. The contents of this directory are then
copied (or rendered) into the output role directory. Appropriate
command line options and configuration entries are added to allow for
further customization from the role skeleton.
* Remove dependency on platforms list from test
Platforms are no longer provided to the template by galaxy init.
Removing the code in our test meta/main.yml template that relied on it.
* Fix whitespace issue
* Fixes passlib example in FAQ to reduce the number of rounds to 5000
As stated in issue #15326, the default number for glibc is 5000, where
the default for passlib is 656000.
I actually found out when I spend few hours trying to understand why
ansible was taking almost x3 the time to run a playbook when using a
user with sudo and password (comparared to sudo with NOPASSWD set).
Well, it was because the user was created using ansible and the passlib
example found in the docs' FAQ.
Reducing the numbers of rounds to 5000 will ensure a better experience
with ansible for newcomers when using sudo with a password.
* Fixes passlib example in FAQ to reflect the API changes in passlib 1.7
Method encrypt() was deprecated in 1.7 and renamed to hash(), which
happened almost a year ago.
https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lib/passlib.ifc.html#passlib.ifc.PasswordHash.encrypt
* Remove assemble from list of windows modules, but advise you can delegate appropriate modules to localhost. Try to fix list of usable on windows modules to appear as a list instead of on one line.
* Update intro_windows.rst
Minor edit
I have from time to time a need of random password without
wanting to write them down (one example is mailman list creation,
that requires a password to be given to be sent to the list owner).
But using /dev/null do not return null, but the empty string, which
doesn't generate a password at all and so do not achieve my use case.
Move to using a requirements.txt to install the python packages.
This makes it easy to keep the documentation and actual package
dependencies in sync.
Fixes#18453
* WIP Partners guide for adding multiple modules
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* WIP
* HACK
* Revert hack
* Brian's feedback
* Remove squash notes
* Minor tidyups
* Unit & Integration tests (& minor tweaks)
* Details about Unit tests
* As we are about to feature freeze on Ansible 2.3 remove the notes about Ansible 2.4 and py2.4.
* Module names should be in the singular
* Scot & Dylan's feedback
* 5 PRs at once. Remove FIXMEs
* Formatting
* How to use Git & GitHub
* directories are in category & topic
* Expectations of Module authors
* Better wording for module author's responsibilities
* How to document your module
* Remove blank lines
* note:: Versions should be strings
* requirements on the host that executes the module.
* option names & option values
* Feedback
* formatting
* Scott's final feedback
The list of ignored by default extensions is outdated in doc for dynamic
inventories, and this option is completely missing from configuration
file overview.
* Initial version of aos_ip_pool module
* Add examples for IP Pool
* Break down ip_pool into smaller function
* Refactor do_load_resource
* Add get_display_name_from_file
* Add ‘src’ as an option to load ip pool from JSON file
* Rename directory network/apstra to network/aos
* Remove exception handling temporary
* Remove all ‘Exception as XX’ to be python 2.4 compatible
* Replace ‘== False’ with ‘is False’ for PEP8 Test
* Update documentation to be Yaml compatible
* Lisg all method imported from module_utils.aos
* Refactor to align with collection.find() changes
* Update examples by @gundalow’s recommendations
* Update Documentation per @gundalow’s recommendations
* Change the license per @gundalow recommendation
* Add exception handling for get_aos_session
* Change Auth format and add check_aos_version() to check minimum version
* Add a check for minimum version
* Refactor ‘src’ into ‘content’ to allow more options
Remove get_display_name_from_file in aos.py
Add content_to_dict in aos.py
* Fix variable name in do_load_resource
* Add mention of aos.py in module_utilities doc
* Add try/except for import yaml
* Add try/Except around main block of code and function
* Refactor to auto detect content_format, update doc accordingly
* Change create_new_ip_pool inputs
* Remove unused import
* Remove in_use as it’s never used
* Fix doc format
* Add version number in requirement doc
* added docs for vault and made trigger shorter: !vault
* added single var valuting
* Update playbooks_vault.rst
Edit pass for spelling and grammar. Ship it!
* Update playbooks_vault.rst
Typo fixes.
* Make the module_utils path configurable
* Add a config value to define the path site module_utils files
* Handle module_utils that do not have source as an error
* Make an integration test for module_utils envvar working
* Add documentation for the ANSIBLE_MODULE_UTILS config option/envvar
* Add it to the sample ansible.cfg
* Add it to intro_configuration.
* Also modify intro_configuration to place envvars on equal footing with
the config options (will need to document the envvar names in the
future)
* Also add the ANSIBLE_LIBRARY use case from
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/15432 so we can close out
that bug.
* Revamping module development docs - work in progress
* Refurb of developing modules content continues.
* Developing modules refurb work continues
* Continued refurb of developing modules content. Work-in-progress.
* Ibid
* Dev guide content refurb continues - WIP
* Ibid.
* Removed reference to old extras module repo
* Tweaks
* Removed some non-intro material; added link to github module PRs.
* Incorporated review feedback from @gundalow and @tkuratomi; fixed some links; renamed '*contributing' to '*checklist'
* build-site.py is no longer used, remove
Replacement is using the standard sphinx-build script.
Makefiles already use that, but standalone use of
build-site.py is no longer needed.
* build.sh no longer used in docs build
* Deprecate ec2_vpc module
The deprecation of ec2_vpc module has been discussed for
2 years and is causing duplication of effort as changes
are implemented for ec2_vpc rather than for the newer
alternatives
* Improve module deprecation documentation
Update the developing modules documentation with the latest
instructions on how to deprecate a module.
* cleanup to reflect current builds
* consolidate templating docs and minor rewording
* new templating intro page
* fixed warnings as per feedback
* Update playbooks_filters.rst
Edited for clarity.
* Update playbooks_templating.rst
Light edits
Replace docs build-site.py with default-ish sphinx build
This seems to speed up docsite build _alot_.
The Makefile.sphinx is the sphinx-quickstart generated makefile with a few changes.
The CPUS env var or 'nproc' output is used for the number of cpus passed to 'sphinx-build -j'
Because we add the names of all filters to the callable whitelist used
by safe_eval, adding a filter named type makes it so code calling "type()"
gets eval'd. We can't think of a way to exploit this but it's
sufficiently sketchy that we're renaming it in case someone smarter than
us can think of a problem.
Instead of asking the user to type something prior to running the script, why not allow -Verbose on the command line directly.
Also log important events to EventLog, so that it can be traced e.g. when running via RunOnce mechanism.
The documentation is updated as well.
* developing_modules.rst is now in dev_guide, sync changes and delete the old version
* Cleaner RST & formatted code
* Tidyup roadmaps
* Link to repomerge
* Pull in abadger's fixes From https://github.com/ansible/ansible/compare/docs-code-block-fixes?expand=1
* Clean docsite/rst (apart from ROADMAP
The asciidoc.in sources had an attribute like:
:doctype:manpage
That attribute was not being correctly rendered in a2x
resulting in the 'doctype:manpage' showing up in a spurious
additional AUTHOR section at the end of the generated man pages like:
AUTHOR
:doctype:manpage
Fix with correct formatting of 'doctype' attribute.
Now we have the following ways to set additional arguments:
1. [ssh_connection]ssh_args in ansible.cfg: global setting, prepended to
every command line for ssh/scp/sftp. Overrides default ControlPersist
settings.
2. ansible_ssh_common_args inventory variable. Appended to every command
line for ssh/scp/sftp. Used in addition to ssh_args, if set above, or
the default settings.
3. ansible_{sftp,scp,ssh}_extra_args inventory variables. Appended to
every command line for the relevant binary only. Used in addition to
#1 and #2, if set above, or the default settings.
3. Using the --ssh-common-args or --{sftp,scp,ssh}-extra-args command
line options (which are overriden by #2 and #3 above).
This preserves backwards compatibility (for ssh_args in ansible.cfg),
but also permits global settings (e.g. ProxyCommand via _common_args) or
ssh-specific options (e.g. -R via ssh_extra_args).
Fixes#12576
commit 9921bb9d2002e136c030ff337c14f8b7eab0fc72
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Mon Aug 10 20:19:44 2015 +0530
Document --ssh-extra-args command-line option
commit 8b25595e7b1cc3658803d0821fbf498c18ee608a
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Thu Aug 13 13:24:57 2015 +0530
Don't disable GSSAPI/Pubkey authentication when using --ask-pass
This commit is based on a bug report and PR by kolbyjack (#6846) which
was subsequently closed and rebased as #11690. The original problem was:
«The password on the delegated host is different from the one I
provided on the command line, so it had to use the pubkey, and the
main host doesn't have a pubkey on it yet, so it had to use the
password.»
(This commit is revised and included here because #11690 would conflict
with the changes in #11908 otherwise.)
Closes#11690
commit 119d0323892c65e8169ae57e42bbe8e3517551a3
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Thu Aug 13 11:16:42 2015 +0530
Be more explicit about why SSH arguments are added
This adds vvvvv log messages that spell out in detail where each SSH
command-line argument is obtained from.
Unfortunately, we can't be sure if, say, self._play_context.remote_user
is obtained from ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER in the environment, remote_user in
ansible.cfg, -u on the command line, or an ansible_ssh_user setting in
the inventory or on a task or play. In some cases, e.g. timeout, we
can't even be sure if it was set by the user or just a default.
Nevertheless, on the theory that at five v's you can use all the hints
available, I've mentioned the possible sources in the log messages.
Note that this caveat applies only to the arguments that ssh.py adds by
itself. In the case of ssh_args and ssh_extra_args, we know where they
are from, and say so, though we can't say WHERE in the inventory they
may be set (e.g. in host_vars or group_vars etc.).
commit b605c285baf505f75f0b7d73cb76b00d4723d02e
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Tue Aug 11 15:19:43 2015 +0530
Add a FAQ entry about ansible_ssh_extra_args
commit 49f8edd035cd28dd1cf8945f44ec3d55212910bd
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Mon Aug 10 20:48:50 2015 +0530
Allow ansible_ssh_args to be set as an inventory variable
Before this change, ssh_args could be set only in the [ssh_connection]
section of ansible.cfg, and was applied to all hosts. Now it's possible
to set ansible_ssh_args as an inventory variable (directly, or through
group_vars or host_vars) to selectively override the global setting.
Note that the default ControlPath settings are applied only if ssh_args
is not set, and this is true of ansible_ssh_args as well. So if you want
to override ssh_args but continue to set ControlPath, you'll need to
repeat the appropriate options when setting ansible_ssh_args.
(If you only need to add options to the default ssh_args, you may be
able to use the ansible_ssh_extra_args inventory variable instead.)
commit 37c1a5b6794cee29a7809ad056a86365a2c0f886
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Mon Aug 10 19:42:30 2015 +0530
Allow overriding ansible_ssh_extra_args on the command-line
This patch makes it possible to do:
ansible somehost -m setup \
--ssh-extra-args '-o ProxyCommand="ssh -W %h:%p -q user@bouncer.example.com"'
This overrides the inventory setting, if any, of ansible_ssh_extra_args.
Based on a patch originally by @Richard2ndQuadrant.
commit b023ace8a8a7ce6800e29129a27ebe8bf6bd38e0
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Mon Aug 10 19:06:19 2015 +0530
Add an ansible_ssh_extra_args inventory variable
This can be used to configure a per-host or per-group ProxyCommand to
connect to hosts through a jumphost, e.g.:
inventory:
[gatewayed]
foo ansible_ssh_host=192.0.2.1
group_vars/gatewayed.yml:
ansible_ssh_extra_args: '-o ProxyCommand="ssh -W %h:%p -q bounceuser@gateway.example.com"'
Note that this variable is used in addition to any ssh_args configured
in the [ssh_connection] section of ansible.cfg (so you don't need to
repeat the ControlPath settings in ansible_ssh_extra_args).
The --new-vault-password-file option works the same as
--vault-password-file but applies only to rekeying (when
--vault-password-file sets the old password). Also update the manpage
to document these options more fully.
Thi permit to simplify the command line to use by using
a sensible default, and so reduce the number of incorrect
possible choices and setup needed. Among potential
incorrect choices is using a fixed directory in /tmp, which
could be problematic with a setup whose access is not
properly restricted.
This flag will show playbook output from non-failing commands. -v is also added to /usr/bin/ansible, but not yet used.
I also gutted some internals code dealing with 'invocations' which allowed the callback to know what module invoked
it. This is not something 0.5 does or needed, so callbacks have been simplified.
the rpm or make install targets. Also modify the make install (only) to copy over files into the library
directory since the setup.py does not do this (due to a distutils bug, more or less).
