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Say hello to Ansible power_aix v2.0.0 here !

By Nitish Mishra posted Wed January 15, 2025 10:21 AM

  

We are here with our new release for the Ansible power_aix collection v2.0.0
We are thankful to everyone in our journey leading to end-to-end ansible automation on AIX platform. Here we come with some new additions in our recent release. Thanks to all the contributors who came forward and delivered outstanding contributions to the collection. It was overwhelming. Please go through all the description to know what we were able to achieve together. Followings are the additions in our release:

Version 2.0.0

Notes

   * New module: route (Manage routes on IBM AIX systems.)

   * New module: snap (snap command to gather diagnostic data)

   * New role: live_kernel_update

   * New playbook: demo_aix_lku_role, demo_route, demo_snap.

   * Enhancement in NIM ADM role to support concurrent migration.

   * Enhancement in tunables module to support -K flag

   * Removed modify state from user module.

   * Enhancement in NIM module to support new fileset installation.

   * Defects: https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/pull/580

   * Defects: https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/pull/582

   * Enhancement in group module to support -R flag for LDAP

   * Updated nim-flrtvc module in accordance with the flrtvc script

   * Defects: https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/193

   * Fixed idempotency issue in NIM module for allocation and deallocation.

   * Minimum required ansible version is 2.16.0 now.

 

Availability:

  Red hat:  https://cloud.redhat.com/ansible/automation-hub/ibm/power_aix

  Galaxy:  https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/ibm-power_aix-2.0.0.tar.gz

  Github:  https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/raw/dev-collection/builds/ibm-power_aix-2.0.0.tar.gz

Please give your input/suggestions in our git hub repository for further improvement and we will prioritize that.

Link: https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues

Thanks

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