Network Working Group Meeting Agenda 5

[Qalthos]

New meeting time, and a new issue is long overdue. Previous agenda is here.

Please leave a comment regarding any agenda item you wish to discuss. If you don't show up for the meeting, your item will be skipped.

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See https://github.com/ansible/community/tree/master/group-network for the schedule

Network Working Group: https://github.com/ansible/community/tree/master/group-network

https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com OR #ansible-network on Libera IRC

[ashwini-mhatre]

2023-05-25

Core Updates

• May collection releases are scheduled early next week.
• The next major collection releases are scheduled for June
  • These will include the removal of deprecated modules
• Volunteer for linting maintenance on community.network collection

Minutes (text):

https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-05-25/ansible_network_working_group.2023-05-25-13.00.txt

Log:

https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-05-25/ansible_network_working_group.2023-05-25-13.00.log.html

[Qalthos]

2023-06-08

Core Updates

• Since our last meeting, the following collections have been released:
  • ansible.utils v2.10.3 has been released with bugfixes (changelog)
  • cisco.ios v4.6.0 has been released with new features (changelog)
  • cisco.iosxr 5.0.3 has been released with bugfixes (changelog)
  • cisco.nxos 4.4.0 has been released with new features (changelog)
  • vyos.vyos 4.1.0 has been released with new features (changelog)
• We're preparing for our next major release this month, which will include the removal of some more long-deprecated modules
• AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit happened on May 23-25

Logs

Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-06-08/ansible_network_working_group.2023-06-08-13.00.html Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-06-08/ansible_network_working_group.2023-06-08-13.00.txt Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-06-08/ansible_network_working_group.2023-06-08-13.00.log.html

[KB-perByte]

2023-06-22

Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/696

• https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network is where the latest agenda can always be found

Core Team Updates

• We are planning major release for cisco.ios, cisco.nxos, cisco.iosxr
• mostly the older logging and bgp module is going away, in favour of newer resource modules in place i.e logging_global, bgp_global/address_family
• we have major releases for network.base attribute action is added as operations and actions as operations
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.base/pull/54
• we would soon have tag in the ansible.scm collections, adding the PR here for reviews
• https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.scm/pull/219
• we are enabling GitHub action based releases for the network collections
• https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/pull/548

Logs

Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-06-22/ansible_network_working_group.2023-06-22-13.00.html Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-06-22/ansible_network_working_group.2023-06-22-13.00.txt Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-06-22/ansible_network_working_group.2023-06-22-13.00.log.html

[rohitthakur2590]

2023-07-06

Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/696

• https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network is where the latest agenda can always be found

Core Updates

• https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/tree/v5.1.2|ansible.netcommon has been released with bugfixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst|changelog)
• junipernetworks.junos collection has been released with bugfixes and features
• https://github.com/ansible-collections/junipernetworks.junos/blob/v5.2.0/CHANGELOG.rst
• cisco.ios collection has been released with features
• https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.ios/blob/v5.0.0/CHANGELOG.rst
• We have tagged https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.interfaces/tree/3.0.0|network.interfaces with updates like changing operations key to operation (https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.interfaces/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst|changelog).
• network.interfaces validated content released with actions getting renamed as operation
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.interfaces/pull/11
• work on updating the version in changelog and galaxy.yaml
• https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-changelog/pull/127

Logs

Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-07-06/ansible_network_working_group.2023-07-06-13.03.html Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-07-06/ansible_network_working_group.2023-07-06-13.03.txt Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-07-06/ansible_network_working_group.2023-07-06-13.03.log.html

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2023-08-03

Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/696

• https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network is where the latest agenda can always be found

Core Team Updates

• We did a few major releases for a few Ansible content
• Significant change with the major releases are that the action & actions attribute is updated with operation & operations
• network.base at 4.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.base
• network.bgp at 4.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.bgp
• network.ospf at 3.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.ospf
• network.vpn at 2.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.vpn
• network.interfaces at 3.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.interfaces
• Fresh Ansible Content
• network.telemetry at 1.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.telemetry
• network.acls at 1.0.0
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.acls
• New Ansible content up for review, yet to be released
• https://github.com/ansible-network/network.backup

Logs

Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-08-03/ansible_network_working_group.2023-08-03-13.01.html Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-08-03/ansible_network_working_group.2023-08-03-13.01.txt Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2023-08-03/ansible_network_working_group.2023-08-03-13.01.log.html

[KB-perByte]

2023-08-17

Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/696

• https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network is where the latest agenda can always be found

Core Team Updates

• The filter plugins present in netcommon is segregated into individual filter plugins, no changes are expected from a end user perspective. Each now have seperate documentation.
• https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/pull/578
• New release for network.acls 1.0.1
• https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.acls

Logs

NA

[ashwini-mhatre]

2023-10-12

Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/696

network is where the latest agenda can always be found

Core Team Updates

• Since our last meeting, the following collections have been released:
  • cisco.ios 5.1.0 has been released with new features(changelog)
  • cisco.nxos 5.2.1 has been released with bug fixes(changelog)

Minutes (text):

https://forum.ansible.com/t/meeting-log-ansible-network-2023-10-12-1331/1678

Log:

https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/Al63NSQarhwsrKi78crRwDAN3cP.txt

[ashwini-mhatre]

2023-10-26

Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/696

network is where the latest agenda can always be found

Core Updates

• We are doing enhancement work for *_config module for all the platforms.
• We have released ansible.netcommon 5.3.0.
• We have planned this months 's networking content collection release early next week.

Minutes (text):

https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/6gabxeVEl51U3v7iGzqTPQ5zry3.txt

Log:

https://forum.ansible.com/t/meeting-log-ansible-network-2023-10-26-1319/1977

[NilashishC]

2023-11-09

Meeting Logs: https://forum.ansible.com/t/meeting-log-ansible-network-2023-11-09-1324/2266

[NilashishC]

2023-11-23

Meeting Logs: https://forum.ansible.com/t/meeting-log-ansible-network-2023-11-23-1355/2542

[samccann]

As a reminder, we will archive this repository and close out all open issues on January 5, 2024. See https://forum.ansible.com/t/network-automation-working-group-agenda/2539 for the new agenda location and https://forum.ansible.com/g/network-wg/members for the Network Working Group in general.