This week in Ansible Community
Issue #188, 2025-06-09 (Past Issues)
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The Ansible team is hiring! 
Engineering Manager
gundalow shared
The Automation Hub team - people behind galaxy.ansible.com - are seeking a new Engineering Manager
The Automation Hub team, the team behind galaxy.ansible.com, Automation Hub on console.redhat.com and Private Automation Hub is seeking a new Engineering Manager.
Join us to lead this team and make Automation Hub and its various services even more impactful to the Ansible Community!See the full job spec
Major new releases 
Ansible-Core 
The ansible-core package contains the base engine and a small subset of modules and plugins. To see what’s planned for the next release, look at the ansible-core roadmaps.
core-2.19
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b5
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-docs is out
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-docs 2.17.0 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at 2.17.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) is out with a bugfix and a new feature for the docsite build.
Project updates 
andebox - a new tool
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
Announcing andebox, a tool for Ansible developers/maintainers
As I helped in maintaining community.general, I developed this tool called “andebox” to help with some boilerplate tasks, specially for running tests. The project has been given some additional attention by yours truly as of late, and it feels like the time is right to bring to the broader community. Therefore, I present you:The tool has been announced in the forum, and it is, of course, available at PyPI. At the time of writing the latest version is 1.1.2, but that has been moving relatively fast as of late, so watch that space.
This is a tool for Ansible collection developers/maintainers, it helps with testing (setup-less test for collections; using tox to test against multiple Ansible versions; using vagrant to test locally with VMs), reformating YAML documentation blocks, generating a collection docsite locally, amongst other features.
Though the tool is not complicated to learn and use, a more extensive documentation is in the works and should be made available in the next days/weeks.
Contributions are more than welcome!!! Hope you like it!!
Ansible Community Package
The Ansible package includes ansible-core and is a batteries-included package that provides a curated set of Ansible collections. See the Ansible roadmaps for future release plans.
ansible 12.0.0a5
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 12.0.0a5 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a5 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a5 --user
Check Release Notes
and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!
Collection updates 
community.proxmox - first stable release
thulium-drake contributed
GitHub - ansible-collections/community.proxmox has made it’s first stable release after migrating away from community. general!
infra.ee_utilities
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.ee_utilities 4.0.3 has been released.
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and converting from python environments to execution environments.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/ee_utilities: This ansible collection includes a number of roles and tools which can be useful for managing Ansible Execution Environments. For more information and updates.
community.hrobot
Felix Fontein said
community.hrobot 2.4.0 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix and three new modules. The set of new modules completes the functionality for managing all aspects of Hetzner’s Storage Boxes. Thanks to all contributors who helped getting this done!
amazon.aws
Bianca Henderson shared
: amazon.aws 10.1.0 has been released with support for
Route53as a hostname. Refer to the changelog for details!
community.proxmox
Felix Fontein shared
The Proxmox content has been moved from community.general to the new community.proxmox collection (Ansible Galaxy). community.proxmox 1.x.y will be part of Ansible 11 (from version 11.7.0 on) and Ansible 12, and the Proxmox content will no longer be part of community.general 11.0.0. Instead, community.general 11 and later versions will redirect the Proxmox content to community.proxmox.
kubernetes.core
Bianca Henderson shared
: kubernetes.core 6.0.0 has been released! This latest major version removes the deprecated
k8sinventory plugin and also removesansible-core<2.16support. Check out the changelog for more details.
infra.aap_configuration
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.aap_configuration 3.4.1 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Controller server via Ansible roles using the AWX/Controller collection modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.
cloud.common
gomathiselvi said
cloud.common 4.2.0 has been released. Check out the changelog for more details.
Certified collections
redhat.openshift_virtualization:2.2.3
trilio.trilio_kubernetes:1.4.2
Community events and meetups 
Ansible London Meetup - June 5th
gundalow said
The Ansible London Meetup slides from 5th June 2025 are online.
The talks were:
- Ansible 101 - Getting Started on your Ansible Journey
- Tame the Chain- Smart VM Dependency Management with Ansible
DevConf.CZ 2025
Oranod shared
See you soon in Brno at DevConf.CZ 2025!
DevConf.CZ is a community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The event starts on Thursday, June 12 and has an exciting schedule with several great Ansible sessions, including:
- Securing Secrets at Scale: Integrating Ansible Automation with Conjur
- Ansible code Bot - The ultimate Artificially Intelligent bot for your git repo
- Beyond Buzzword: Network Automation (Taming Complexities with Ansible)
- Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman
We’re also planning an Ansible meetup at DevConf.CZ. It’s going to be a fun time with some excellent speakers from Red Hat and the community. Be sure to join us if you’re planning to be at DevConf. We’ll also have our Ansible booth set up so stop by, pick up some Ansible swag, and say hi!
DevConf is a free event but requires registration. So head over to the DevConf.CZ 2025 calendar event to find all the details you need.
Safe travels!
Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London
gundalow shared
Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London
Mark your calendars, the next Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London will be on Thursday 9th October 2025.
Agenda and RSVP will be available later in the year.Please express your interest via this forum post.
Other events and releases
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Join the Ansible community
Looking for ways to get involved? See how can I help for some ideas!
You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.
That’s all for now!
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