ANSIBLE 2.3: NEW MODULES

Soon after Ansible turned five, version 2.3 was released. There are a lot of new features in this version specifically related to networking. Like, Persistent connections framework, network_cli connection plugin and netconf connection plugin.

There are 280+ new modules available in Ansible 2.3. Below is the list of some exciting new modules which can help you to automate certain task and also decorate your playbooks.

• archive - Creates a compressed archive of one or more files or trees.

- archive:
    path: /path/to/foo
    dest: /path/to/foo.tgz
    format: gz

gz, bz2 & zip are supported formats

• openssl_privatekey - Generate OpenSSL private keys.

- openssl_privatekey:
    path: /etc/ssl/private/googlinux.com.pem
    Size: 2048
    type: DSA

• openssl_publickey - Generate an OpenSSL public key from its private key.

- openssl_publickey:
    path: /etc/ssl/public/googlinux.com.pem
    privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/googlinux.com.pem

• openssl_csr - Generate OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

- openssl_csr:
    path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.googlinux.com.csr
    privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/googlinux.com.pem
    commonname: www.googlinux.com

• pacemaker_cluster - Manage a pacemaker cluster

- name: Set cluster Online
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - name: get cluster state
      pacemaker_cluster: state=online

• parted - Configure block device partitions

- parted: device=/dev/sdb unit=MiB state=info
  register: sdb_info

- parted:
    device: /dev/sdb
    number: ""{{ item.num }}""
    state: absent
  with_items:
   - "{{ sdb_info.partitions }}"

• wait_for_connection Waits until remote system is reachable/usable. This is an better alternative for wait_for module.

- name: Wait 600 seconds for target connection to become reachable/usable
  wait_for_connection:

- name: Wait 300 seconds, but only start checking after 60 seconds
  wait_for_connection:
    delay: 60
    timeout: 300

ANSIBLE TOWER CAN ALSO BE MANAGED USING A PLAYBOOK :). BELOW ARE SOME MODULES FOR ANSIBLE TOWER

• tower_credential - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower credential.
• tower_group - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower group.
• tower_host - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower host.
• tower_inventory - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower inventory.
• tower_job_cancel - Cancel an Ansible Tower Job.
• tower_job_launch - Launch an Ansible Job.
• tower_job_list - List Ansible Tower jobs
• tower_job_template - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower job_template.
• tower_job_wait - Wait for Ansible Tower job to finish.
• tower_label - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower label.
• tower_organization - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower organizations
• tower_project - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower projects
• tower_role - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower role.
• tower_team - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower team.
• tower_user - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower user.

LOT OF NEW ADDITIONS FOR WINDOWS ^ ^ AS WELL :)

• win_disk_image - Manage ISO/VHD/VHDX mounts on Windows hosts
• win_dns_client - Configures DNS lookup on Windows hosts
• win_domain - Ensures the existence of a Windows domain.
• win_domain_controller - Manage domain controller/member server state for a Windows host
• win_domain_membership - Manage domain/workgroup membership for a Windows host
• win_find - return a list of files based on specific criteria
• win_msg - Sends a message to logged in users on Windows hosts.
• win_path - Manage Windows path environment variables
• win_psexec - Runs commands (remotely) as another (privileged) user
• win_reg_stat - returns information about a Windows registry key or property of a key
• win_region - Set the region and format settings
• win_say - Text to speech module for Windows to speak messages
• win_shortcut - Manage shortcuts on Windows
• win_tempfile - Creates temporary files and directories

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