Announcing the release of ARA 1.5.0

ARA 1.5.0 as well as 1.5.1 (due to a release issue with PyPi) have been released ! For the full list of changes, see the changelog on GitHub as well as the list of commits since 1.4.3. The changelogs and release notes for every version are now included in the documentation as well. Check out the refreshed getting started guide to try it out. Here you can find some of the highlights for this new release....

September 23, 2020 · 6 min · David Moreau Simard

Announcing the upcoming release of ARA 1.4.0

1.4 is a significant milestone for the project and adds a number of new features, bugfixes and improvements. The first release candidate, 1.4.0rc1, is available for testing from PyPi with pip install --pre ara[server]. Here you can find some of the highlights for this upcoming release. For the full list of changes, see the changelog or the list of commits since 1.3.2. The ara_api Ansible role now supports EL8 The ara_api Ansible role can be used to deploy and configure a production-ready ARA API server and, in fact, this is the role used to deploy the live demo on api....

April 15, 2020 · 6 min · David Moreau Simard

ARA 0.16.7 and end of life for 0.x

0.16.7 is a maintenance release for ARA 0.x. Changes since 0.16.6: Fix typo in ara.setup.env for ANSIBLE_ACTION_PLUGINS (pull request) Pin pyfakefs to <4 in order to avoid breaking python2 usage (issue) Pin junit-xml to <=1.8 in order to avoid deprecation warnings in unit tests ARA 0.x end of life The code base for ARA 0.x has not been actively maintained and developed since 2018 and will officially reach end of life June 4th, 2019, one year after the release of ARA 1....

April 14, 2020 · 1 min · David Moreau Simard

2019 in restrospective for ARA Records Ansible

ARA has come a long way since I created it as a side project back in 2016. The end of 2019 is here and I thought this was a good opportunity to look back at the progress of the project over the past year. The journey to finally release 1.0 ARA 0.x has been successful at recording Ansible playbook runs and providing reporting capabitilies. However, it lacked – amongst other things – an API to make it easier to integrate with other systems....

December 31, 2019 · 5 min · David Moreau Simard

Announcing the release of ARA Records Ansible 1.3

ARA 1.3.0 has been released ! You can refer to GitHub repository for the changelog as well as the full list of changes since 1.2. Here are some of the highlights in this new version: Required python version Before ARA 1.3, it was required to run the API server under at least python 3.6 and above. We’ve removed the requirement on python 3.6 by replacing a few instances of python f-strings by a compatible string format....

December 3, 2019 · 2 min · David Moreau Simard

ARA is now packaged for Fedora !

We are happy to announce that ARA has successfully been included in Fedora ! The latest version (1.2.0) is available for Fedora 30, Fedora 31 as well as Rawhide (Fedora 32). You can find the source for the packaging files on src.fedoraproject.org and the builds on koji.fedoraproject.org. Contributions to improve the packaging are welcome ! How to get started If you are using Ansible from Fedora packages, you can start recording playbooks with ARA easily:...

November 22, 2019 · 1 min · David Moreau Simard

ARA 0.16 maintenance release and eventual end of life

ARA 0.16.6 is a maintenance release for users that are not yet using ARA 1.x. Changes since 0.16.5: Fixed web application crash due to encoding/decoding of binary non-ascii content in task results The sqlite middleware was adapted to support running under gunicorn as well as mod_wsgi python -m ara.setup.env now returns commands that use bash expansion to take into account existing environment variables Eventual end of life for ARA 0....

November 18, 2019 · 2 min · David Moreau Simard

Announcing the release of ARA Records Ansible 1.2

ARA 1.2.0 has been released ! You can refer to GitHub repository for the changelog as well as the full list of changes. Here are some of the highlights in this new version: A simple built-in interface Back by popular demand, ARA 1.2.0 re-introduces a built-in web interface included by default with the API server. This new lightweight and simple interface is designed to work without any additional dependencies. It is still very much a work in progress but we would love to hear about what you think about it !...

November 6, 2019 · 2 min · David Moreau Simard

Announcing the release of ARA Records Ansible 1.0

After more than three years since the creation of the project, we are excited to announce that the version 1.0 of ARA Records Ansible is now available. This new release marks the deprecation of ARA 0.x and while full feature parity has not yet been achieved, we are moving forward and we will iterate to add missing features in future releases. Main changes from ARA 0.x The backend has been re-written from Flask to Django/Django-rest-framework A new API as well as built-in API clients are available to record and query playbook results The project’s dependencies have been decoupled: the Ansible plugins, API backend and web interface can be installed independently from one another The web interface has been re-written as a standalone project: ara-web In summary, all the different components before 1....

June 4, 2019 · 3 min · David Moreau Simard

ARA 1.0 beta: help wanted

The first beta milestone for ARA 1.0 is out and ready for testing ! Main changes since 1.0.0a4 API: /api/v1/info has moved to / and / was improved with a link to the API index API: CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST now requires the scheme (http/https) as per django-cors-headers API: Playbook arguments are now provided when listing playbooks at /api/v1/playbooks Clients: API clients now support authenticating with specified credentials Ansible roles: The ara_api role now supports using postgresql for the server database Packaging The API server dependencies are now optional when installing ARA 1....

May 16, 2019 · 4 min · David Moreau Simard