Add Ability to Change Commit Labels on IOSXR_CONFIG module

[mfisher30]

Proposal: Add Ability to Change Commit Labels on IOSXR_CONFIG module

Author: Michael Fisher <@mfisher30>

Date: 2018/05/22

• Status: New
• Proposal type: IOSXR_CONFIG module
• Targeted Release: 2.6

Motivation

Currently, the IOSXR_CONFIG module allows for the addition of commit comments, but does not give the ability to add a commit label. Commit labels in many enterprise environments allow quick reference to various commits to allow for quicker rollbacks and less confusion when a rollback is needed.

Problems

When IOSXR_CONFIG makes a commit, it does not apply a commit label, leaving no tags for quick rollback. Rollbacks on IOS-XR devices are reference using a machine generated CommitID, but the ability to add a commit label allows the user to set a reference to the commit.

Solution proposal

Add an additional parameter to the IOSXR_CONFIG module that allows the addition of a commit label when the module commits a change.

On an IOS-XR device, a commit label is added using the following configuration command

!
conf t
! 
commit label <word>
!

    - iosxr_config
         commands:
         comment: This is the existing parameter that allows the addition of a commit comment
         label: This is the proposed parameter that would allow the addition of a commit label

This will solve the inability to add a label to a commit

[gundalow]

Hi, thanks for this, though the proposals are for large impact changes to Ansible.

Could you please close this and fill out the template found at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new?template=feature_request.md

Thanks in advance