We are happy to announce the availability of our latest version for Ansible AIX collection - power_aix v1.9.0
The latest version builds upon our goal of Leveraging the power of Automation for making our user's day-to-day work life better, packed with new modules, feature enhancements and bug fixes, this version has a lot to offer.
Read the whole blog to know what all is introduced and how to access the collection.
What's new:
- New module: lku. (Live Kernel Update, PowerVC support)
- New module: password_rules_policies, allows the user to manage password rules and policies.
- New module: hdcrypt_facts, useful for displaying encryption/decryption related information.
- New module: hdcrypt_pks, which allows the user to add PKS authentication method and manage PKS keys.
- New playbook: install_all_updates
- New playbook: lvg
- New playbook: chsec
- New playbook: lku
- New playbook: password_rules_policies
- New playbook: hdcrypt_facts
- New playbook: hdcrypt_pks
- Updated demo playbook for backing up rootvg.
- Enhancement: Local patch server can be used to download the fixes though FLRTVC module.
- Enhancement: Empty attributes are now allowed in filesystem module.
- Defect: Fixed parsing of emgr -l output for AIX 7.3.
- Defect: Fixed indexing error for int data type in filesystem module.
- Defect: Fixed linting issues for latest ansible-lint version.
- Defect: Fixed pylint issues according to latest requirements.
- Defect: Fixed incorrect check of inetd services.
- Defect: Fixed idempotency issue in filesystem module.
- Defect: Fixed idempotency issue in EMGR module.
- Defect: Fixed FLRTVC module in accordance with the new version of the script.
- Defect: Fixed boolean value error in chsec module.
- Defect: Updated chsec module to show custom error messages.
- Defect: Updated mkfilt module to show custom messages.
- Defect: Updated MPIO module - erroneous cases are now dealt with.
- Defect: Modified Mktun module to show proper messages.
- Made minor documentation changes in most of the modules.
These additions were included after surveying AIX clients and getting direct input from the users on our GitHub repository. If you have any suggestions that you'd like us to cover, you can post them here or on our GitHub repository (link available below).
At the moment of writing this blog, we have more than 360,000 downloads of the power_aix collection on Ansible Galaxy.
Use these newly added features/enhancements and make your work-life easier, efficient and more productive. Happy Automation!
The new collection can be found at the following locations:
Red Hat Automation Hub: https://console.redhat.com/ansible/automation-hub/repo/published/ibm/power_aix/
Ansible Galaxy: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ibm/power_aix
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix