Some changes:
* Many new modules, sorted in the following subdirs:
cloud commands database files internal inventory messaging
monitoring net_infrastructure network notification packaging
source_control system utilities web_infrastructure
* accelerated mode: An enhanced fireball mode that requires zero
bootstrapping and fewer requirements plus adds capabilities like
sudo commands
* Connection default is now "smart", which discovers if the system
openssh can support ControlPersist, and uses it if so, if not
falls back to paramiko
* external inventory scripts may now return host variables in one
pass, which allows them to be much more efficient for large numbers
of hosts (AWS!)
* "~" now expanded on each component of configured plugin paths
* Countless feature enhancements and bugfixes
For a full list, see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md
1.1 "Mean Street" -- 4/2/2013
Core Features
* added --check option for "dry run" mode
* added --diff option to show how templates or copied files change, or
might change
* --list-tasks for the playbook will list the tasks without running them
* able to set the environment by setting "environment:" as a dictionary
on any task (go proxy support!)
* added ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass for per-host/group username
and password
* jinja2 extensions can now be loaded from the config file
* support for complex arguments to modules (within reason)
* can specify ansible_connection=X to define the connection type in
inventory variables
* a new chroot connection type
* module common code now has basic type checking (and casting) capability
* module common now supports a 'no_log' attribute to mark a field as
not to be syslogged
* inventory can now point to a directory containing multiple
scripts/hosts files, if using this, put group_vars/host_vars
directories inside this directory
* added configurable crypt scheme for 'vars_prompt'
* password generating lookup plugin -- $PASSWORD(path/to/save/data/in)
* added --step option to ansible-playbook, works just like Linux
interactive startup!
Modules Added:
* bzr (bazaar version control)
* cloudformation
* django-manage
* gem (ruby gems)
* homebrew
* lvg (logical volume groups)
* lvol (LVM logical volumes)
* macports
* mongodb_user
* netscaler
* okg
* openbsd_pkg
* rabbit_mq_plugin
* rabbit_mq_user
* rabbit_mq_vhost
* rabbit_mq_parameter
* rhn_channel
* s3 -- allows putting file contents in buckets for sharing over s3
* uri module -- can get/put/post/etc
* vagrant -- launching VMs with vagrant, this is different from existing
vagrant plugin
* zfs
Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management,
multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works
over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed
on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and
are transferred to managed machines automatically.
