Ansible-base 2.11 Porting Guide

This section discusses the behavioral changes between Ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible-base 2.11.

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-base.

We suggest you read this page along with the Ansible-base Changelog for 2.11 to understand what updates you may need to make.

Ansible-base is mainly of interest for developers and users who only want to use a small, controlled subset of the available collections. Regular users should install ansible.

The complete list of porting guides can be found at porting guides.

Contents

• Ansible-base 2.11 Porting Guide
  • Playbook
  • Command Line
  • Deprecated
  • Modules
    • Modules removed
    • Deprecation notices
    • Noteworthy module changes
  • Plugins
  • Porting custom scripts

Playbook

• The jinja2_native setting now does not affect the template module which implicitly returns strings. For the template lookup there is a new argument jinja2_native (off by default) to control that functionality. The rest of the Jinja2 expressions still operate based on the jinja2_native setting.

Command Line

• The ansible-galaxy login command has been removed, as the underlying API it used for GitHub auth is being shut down. Publishing roles or collections to Galaxy via ansible-galaxy now requires that a Galaxy API token be passed to the CLI via a token file (default location ~/.ansible/galaxy_token) or (insecurely) via the --token argument to ansible-galaxy.

Deprecated

No notable changes

Modules

• The apt_key module has explicitly defined file as mutually exclusive with data, keyserver and url. They cannot be used together anymore.
• The meta module now supports tags for user-defined tasks. Set the task’s tags to ‘always’ to maintain the previous behavior. Internal meta tasks continue to always run.

Modules removed

The following modules no longer exist:

• No notable changes

Deprecation notices

No notable changes

Noteworthy module changes

• facts - On NetBSD, ansible_virtualization_type now tries to report a more accurate result than xen when virtualized and not running on Xen.
• facts - Virtualization facts now include virtualization_tech_guest and virtualization_tech_host keys. These are lists of virtualization technologies that a guest is a part of, or that a host provides, respectively. As an example, a host may be set up to provide both KVM and VirtualBox, and these will be included in virtualization_tech_host, and a podman container running on a VM powered by KVM will have a virtualization_tech_guest of ["kvm", "podman", "container"].
• The parameter filter type is changed from string to list in the setup module in order to use more than one filter. Previous behaviour (using a string) still remains and works as a single filter.

Plugins

• inventory plugins - CachePluginAdjudicator.flush() now calls the underlying cache plugin’s flush() instead of only deleting keys that it knows about. Inventory plugins should use delete() to remove any specific keys. As a user, this means that when an inventory plugin calls its clear_cache() method, facts could also be flushed from the cache. To work around this, users can configure inventory plugins to use a cache backend that is independent of the facts cache.
• callback plugins - meta task execution is now sent to v2_playbook_on_task_start like any other task. By default, only explicit meta tasks are sent there. Callback plugins can opt-in to receiving internal, implicitly created tasks to act on those as well, as noted in the plugin development documentation.

Porting custom scripts

No notable changes