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