Ansible 2.6 Porting Guide

This section discusses the behavioral changes between Ansible 2.5 and Ansible 2.6.

It is intended to assist in updating your playbooks, plugins and other parts of your Ansible infrastructure so they will work with this version of Ansible.

We suggest you read this page along with Ansible Changelog for 2.6 to understand what updates you may need to make.

This document is part of a collection on porting. The complete list of porting guides can be found at porting guides.

• Playbook
• Deprecated

• Modules

  • Modules removed
  • Deprecation notices
  • Noteworthy module changes

• Plugins

  • Deprecation notices
  • Noteworthy plugin changes
• Porting custom scripts
• Networking
• Dynamic inventory scripts

Playbook

• The deprecated task option always_run has been removed, please use check_mode: no instead.

Deprecated

• In the nxos_igmp_interface module, oif_prefix and oif_source properties are deprecated. Use ois_ps parameter with a dictionary of prefix and source to values instead.

Modules

Major changes in popular modules are detailed here:

Modules removed

The following modules no longer exist:

Deprecation notices

The following modules will be removed in Ansible 2.10. Please update your playbooks accordingly.

• k8s_raw use k8s instead.
• openshift_raw use k8s instead.
• openshift_scale use k8s_scale instead.

Noteworthy module changes

• The upgrade module option for win_chocolatey has been removed; use state: latest instead.
• The reboot module option for win_feature has been removed; use the win_reboot action plugin instead.
• The win_iis_webapppool module no longer accepts a string for the attributes module option; use the free form dictionary value instead.
• The name module option for win_package has been removed; this is not used anywhere and should just be removed from your playbooks.
• The win_regedit module no longer automatically corrects the hive path HCCC to HKCC; use HKCC because this is the correct hive path.

• The file – Manage files and file properties now emits a deprecation warning when src is specified with a state other than hard or link as it is only supposed to be useful with those. This could have an effect on people who were depending on a buggy interaction between src and other state’s to place files into a subdirectory. For instance:

  $ ansible localhost -m file -a 'path=/var/lib src=/tmp/ state=directory'
  

  Would create a directory named /tmp/lib. Instead of the above, simply spell out the entire destination path like this:

  $ ansible localhost -m file -a 'path=/tmp/lib state=directory'
  

• The k8s_raw and openshift_raw modules have been aliased to the new k8s module.
• The k8s module supports all Kubernetes resources including those from Custom Resource Definitions and aggregated API servers. This includes all OpenShift resources.
• The k8s module will not accept resources where subkeys have been snake_cased. This was a workaround that was suggested with the k8s_raw and openshift_raw modules.
• The k8s module may not accept resources where the api_version has been changed to match the shortened version in the Kubernetes Python client. You should now specify the proper full Kubernetes api_version for a resource.
• The k8s module can now process multi-document YAML files if they are passed with the src parameter. It will process each document as a separate resource. Resources provided inline with the resource_definition parameter must still be a single document.
• The k8s module will not automatically change Project creation requests into ProjectRequest creation requests as the openshift_raw module did. You must now specify the ProjectRequest kind explicitly.
• The k8s module will not automatically remove secrets from the Ansible return values (and by extension the log). In order to prevent secret values in a task from being logged, specify the no_log parameter on the task block.
• The k8s_scale module now supports scalable OpenShift objects, such as DeploymentConfig.
• The lineinfile module was changed to show a warning when using an empty string as a regexp. Since an empty regexp matches every line in a file, it will replace the last line in a file rather than inserting. If this is the desired behavior, use '^' which will match every line and will not trigger the warning.
• Openstack modules are no longer using shade library. Instead openstacksdk is used. Since openstacksdk should be already present as a dependency to shade no additional actions are required.

Plugins

Deprecation notices

The following modules will be removed in Ansible 2.10. Please update your playbooks accordingly.

• openshift use k8s instead.

Noteworthy plugin changes

• The k8s lookup plugin now supports all Kubernetes resources including those from Custom Resource Definitions and aggregated API servers. This includes all OpenShift resources.
• The k8s lookup plugin may not accept resources where the api_version has been changed to match the shortened version in the Kubernetes Python client. You should now specify the proper full Kubernetes api_version for a resource.
• The k8s lookup plugin will no longer remove secrets from the Ansible return values (and by extension the log). In order to prevent secret values in a task from being logged, specify the no_log parameter on the task block.

Porting custom scripts

No notable changes.

Networking

No notable changes.

Dynamic inventory scripts

• contrib/inventory/openstack.py has been renamed to contrib/inventory/openstack_inventory.py. If you have used openstack.py as a name for your OpenStack dynamic inventory file, change it to openstack_inventory.py. Otherwise the file name will conflict with imports from openstacksdk.