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Author SHA1 Message Date
9dac51f25a Update special_variables.rst (#76360) 2021-12-14 10:32:20 -05:00
0df60f3b61 per marketing request - add note for AAP on Azure availability (#76512) 2021-12-08 14:17:50 -08:00
a1205d52ce update release and maintenance for Ansible 5 (#76301) 2021-11-30 06:40:44 -08:00
0afc0b8506 Add a link to the Ansible 5.x changelog (#76352)
The 5.x changelog is available, add a link to it.
2021-11-23 09:25:51 -08:00
d0c1e5a46d Update release/maint page for 2.12 release (#76205)
* make changelogs more visible and fix a broken link

* add 2.12 changelogs

* add eol column
2021-11-08 10:28:50 -05:00
000ae00cfd Docs: Clarify adding newlines in YAML folded block scalar (#75875)
* Removed translatable words from code blocks

##### SUMMARY
Removed translatable words from codeblocks as per #59449

##### ISSUE TYPE
- Docs Pull Request

+label: docsite_pr

* Maintaining intend as well as clearity

* Preserving "save_as" as the key

* showing equivalence and keeping same context
2021-10-05 04:13:49 -07:00
e021a65403 using FQCN also for ansible.builtin collection (#75644) 2021-09-24 14:34:20 -04:00
c2fa71c4e8 Fix various typos in documentation (#75662)
* docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/developing_modules_general_aci.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/no-get-exception.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing_units_modules.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/network/dev_guide/developing_resource_modules_network.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.0.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.10.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.4.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_3.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_4.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/glossary.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/scenario_guides/vmware_rest_scenarios/collect_information.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/scenario_guides/vmware_rest_scenarios/vm_tool_information.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/scenario_guides/vmware_scenarios/vmware_inventory_vm_attributes.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_debugger.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/windows_performance.rst: fix typos

* docs/docsite/rst/scenario_guides/vmware_scenarios/vmware_inventory_vm_attributes.rst: fix typos
2021-09-09 08:34:46 -07:00
3c3e30a610 Docs: Add Matrix as a chat option (#75406) 2021-08-12 11:47:02 -04:00
fa7482c63a Change interpreter discovery defaults to silently prefer Python 3 (#75049)
Push /usr/bin/python to almost the bottom of the barrel. This makes the strategy to prefer
specific versions of the "mystery meat" version.

* Change INTERPRETER_PYTHON default to 'auto'
    Change description to match change in behavior.
    Change deprecation message to a warning.

* Update docs
* Add porting guide entry
* Update unit tests
* Update integration test
* Allow INTERPRETER_PYTHON_FALLBACK to be configure using a variable
* Prefer platform-python above other Python 2 interpreters
* Add Python 3.10 to the list of interpreters
2021-08-04 14:17:32 -04:00
13c28664ae Docs: talk about AWX or the Platform, not Tower (#74952)
* updates Tower page to talk about RHAAP

* updates scenario guide Tower references

* updates Tower references to use AWX and/or RHAAP

* more scenario guides fixes

* fix CI failures

* Update docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.rst

* removes tower link

* for 2.8, still mention Tower along with AWX and RHAAP

* aws guides should be updated in the collection, where they now exist

Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
2021-07-21 13:08:46 -04:00
2eb9921b19 Prefer https:// links in the docs site (#75121)
This is a follow-up of previous years' 1a11cec and c8315bf. It deals
with links which at that point presumably either were not present or
did not support https://
2021-06-29 12:53:08 +05:30
29592aa3d4 Update YAMLSyntax.rst (#75113)
fix yaml-syntax example
2021-06-25 10:39:11 -05:00
ea0ba7bf30 update terminology based on recent IBM Style Guide word list (#75089) 2021-06-23 15:52:38 -05:00
5a5a1882d4 Added FAQ entry for complex validation needs (#74707)
* Added FAQ entry for complex validation needs

* updated validate docs

* fix

* longline

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com>
2021-06-16 13:43:01 -04:00
08fc43f3ea document keywords (#74046)
* document kewyords

  also minoir tweak to local action/connection

* made corrections
2021-06-16 12:46:21 -04:00
80e7e1a17c Due to the takeover of freenode we're moving to a different irc network. (#74775)
* Due to the takeover of freenode we're moving to a different irc network.

* Our channels updated to point at the same channel name on libera.chat
* Some links went to webchat.freenode.net.  At this time, libera.chat
  doesn't point you to an official webchat client so I changed these to
  https://libera.chat. (kiwi irc does work with libera.chat so that
  could be another option).
* In general, I used the name irc.libera.net for link names and
  https://libera.chat for link targets.  This is because the irc service
  is hosted on irc.libera.chat but the project web server is hosted on
  libera.chat.  (This appears to also be true for freenode but we were
  using http://irc.freenode.net which doesn't seem to work.  Oops).
* Removed http://irc.freenode.net from the linkcheck exceptions.
  linkcheck was actually correct to flag that as invalid (should have
  been http://frenode.net instead).

* Looks like hte important people in #yaml are now in libera.chat

* Link to where contributors should get help

Add a link target and then link to where contributors should get support
for developing groups of modules.

* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/developing_modules_in_groups.rst

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

Co-authored-by: John R Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
2021-06-01 08:48:09 +01:00
138dfa4549 add release note and mark 3 unmaintained (#74749) 2021-05-18 15:33:26 -05:00
d1e6ee7b21 update changelog links and release-maint page (#74431) 2021-04-27 09:33:21 -05:00
e6a5245d60 Using "~" instead of "+" for concatination (#74364)
Changed FAQ examples to conform with the Jinja documentation:
If both values on either side of a plus/+ are numbers, they will be added whereas using "~" will convert all operands into strings and then concatenate them. Closes #73799.
2021-04-23 12:44:09 -05:00
2cbfd1e350 Add porting guide and documentation for changes to argument spec validation (#74268)
* Add ArgumentSpecValidator to docs
* Improve docs for ArgumentSpecValidator
* Document removal of private methods

* Update module_utils documentation
    - Add docs for argument spec classes as well as validation and parameters files.
    - preserve the order in the source for errors.py
    - document DEFAULT_TYPE_VALIDATORS so it can be referenced elsewhere
    - fix automodule directive for validation.py

* Update docs in arg_spec and paremeters
    - This improves the generated documentation.

* Document breaking changes in porting guide.
* Update formatting in porting guide and add a Deprecated section
* Fine tune module_utils documentation


* Move instance docstring to the __init__ method
  Remove optional description since it fails the sanity test and I am not 100% it is valid anyway.

* Remoe incorrect parameter from docstring
  This was changed a while ago but wasn't removed from the docstring.

* Use attr rather than attribute
  The py:attribute: domain only exists in newer Sphinx >= 3.1.

* Improve documentation on exceptions
* Final pass
    - use args/kwargs instead of param
    - fix formatting errors that didn't display examples correctly
    - format TypeErrors so they are referenced as classes
    - specify complex types
2021-04-20 15:40:53 -04:00
b57444af14 Rebased pr73824 (#73934)
Co-authored-by: Eugene <k.evgen61@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
2021-03-17 16:07:38 -04:00
474f46ea56 Docs: Updates the release and maintenance page to reflect new cadences (#73781)
Co-authored-by: Andrew Klychkov <aaklychkov@mail.ru>
Co-authored-by: John R Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Klychkov <aaklychkov@mail.ru>
Co-authored-by: John R Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com>
2021-03-11 14:25:18 -05:00
c22bc46cb9 Mention ansible-core @ "Release and maintenance" (#73612) 2021-02-22 19:07:25 -06:00
fa05af8321 Fixing ad-hoc commands #73636 (#73646) 2021-02-18 16:48:22 -06:00
dec443e3a5 why no mfa? (#73324)
Co-authored-by: Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Rick Elrod <rick@elrod.me>
2021-01-22 14:58:35 -05:00
d500e6ec45 doc: fix ansible_play_hosts description about failure (#73190)
The variable ansible_play_hosts actually does _not_ includes failed or unreachable hosts.

+label: docsite_pr
2021-01-18 15:24:29 -05:00
ad4ddd8211 document what the name of a play is (#72633)
##### SUMMARY

Make clear that `ansible_play_name` is the name attribute from the play and not the file name of the playbook.

improves #57361

##### ISSUE TYPE
- Docs Pull Request

+label: docsite_pr
2020-11-17 11:56:49 -05:00
eee13962e5 Minor typo in test_strategies.rst (#72060) 2020-10-01 14:34:23 -04:00
c5a161b2b0 Update faq.rst (#71982)
Added link to https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5295121 in third sentence
2020-09-28 11:07:03 -04:00
9a39452a31 update the definition of changed (#71865)
* add nuance to the definition of changed, add notes to modules that return "changed" without changing state
2020-09-24 14:33:22 -05:00
70e25dc158 clarify releases download for older releases only (#71892) 2020-09-24 09:57:16 -05:00
4aedd1b987 add new glossary terms for 2.10 (#71813)
* add new terms for 2.10
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <879121+acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-09-24 09:45:54 -05:00
b430f9b9aa Adds FAQ and other pointers for collections (#71606) 2020-09-09 13:16:26 -04:00
a34043c6be Changed all_modules references to list_of_collections in the documentation (#71656) 2020-09-09 11:43:40 -05:00
7bfeed3e24 Docsite: replace Latin phrases to English (#71588)
Replace Latin phrases like "e.g." and "i.e." and "etc." with English phrases. 

* Update docs/docsite/rst/community/committer_guidelines.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/developing_modules_documenting.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/developing_program_flow_modules.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/module_lifecycle.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_loops.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_reuse.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/platforms/aws_guidelines.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing_integration.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.5.rst
* Update docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/faq.rst
2020-09-03 14:47:57 -05:00
553ccedcd3 Update release page for ansible and ansible-base (#71229)
* [docs] 2.7 is EOL, add 2.10 which is almost out
- Remove 2.7 support from the maintenance schedule
- Add 2.10 which is in RC and will be out soon enough.
Signed-off-by: Rick Elrod <rick@elrod.me>

* Update docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.rst, fix table and separate ansible-base from ansible, fix rstcheck errors, clean up sections, explain the two packages
Co-authored-by: Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Rick Elrod <rick@elrod.me>
2020-08-12 15:51:38 -05:00
e72e12aa27 docs: 'ansible_play_hosts' lists active hosts, not limited by serial (#71116)
ansible_play_batch lists the currently targeted host(s) in the serial/batch, while
ansible_play_hosts lists all the hosts which will be targeted by the play.
2020-08-10 09:42:45 -05:00
11a31e99e6 added note about fakeroot (#71018)
see #70895
2020-08-03 16:36:26 -04:00
864573a38d Document common return values with examples (#71046)
* adding return value examples
* shift to console code blocks
* cleaning up whitespace and shortening invocation example
* reordering diff section
2020-08-03 11:51:58 -05:00
14dc4de424 Update docs for --tags default, and add some tests (#70939)
Change:
- Clarify that not passing `--tags` will cause `ansible_run_tags` to
  default to `["all"]`.
- Add some extra coverage around `ansible_run_tags`

Test Plan:
- New integration and unit tests

Tickets:
- Fixes #69619

Signed-off-by: Rick Elrod <rick@elrod.me>
2020-07-29 17:16:57 -05:00
59513ae673 Fix incorrect statement to set a variable for a playbook (#70712)
Fixes #70638
2020-07-20 13:45:40 -05:00
92e16c2838 Few fixes for reference_appendices/faq.html (#70719)
* Format using `` instead of `, add line breaks for long lines, rephrase or remove useless text.
Move some text.

* Add clearer version of OpenSSh is affected by SCP bug

* Review some pages using ansible doc writing guide.
2020-07-20 13:43:39 -05:00
db354c0300 Docs: User guide overhaul, part 5 (#70307) 2020-07-14 17:00:44 -04:00
6fffb0607b WIP: Docs: User guide overhaul, part 4 (#69266)
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-05-15 16:18:07 -04:00
087be1da50 Allow tasks to notify a fqcn handler name (#68213)
* Allow tasks to notify a fqcn handler name

* Add tests. Fixes #68181

* Add changelog fragment

* Add test to ensure handlers are deduped properly with fqcn, role, and just handler names

* Add some docs about new special vars
2020-04-08 11:36:38 -05:00
8042d226e4 fix make webdocs warnings (#68411) 2020-03-25 13:13:56 -05:00
967e05bb23 DOC fix: typo in group addressing syntax (#67994) 2020-03-24 09:03:08 +01:00
4083514d3e Fix typo and styling FAQ docs (#68212) 2020-03-24 09:00:03 +01:00
ad8df69b58 docs/docsite/rst/: fix typos (#67645) 2020-02-21 10:57:07 +00:00