Hi all, our server automatisation reached ansible release 20.04 with small fixes to our servers and some big improvements to ansible operation great speedup in rollouts 5h > 1h Ansible now runs dockerized, allowing for flexible environment changes and tests Ansible update to 2.9 with Python3 and improved data inheritance handling The changes to server systems have been rolled out to GS servers today, I will continue with RZ1 Servers in the afternoon Kind Regards Gunnar Details: see https://git.app.infra.gs.xtrav.de/infra/ansible Release 20.04 (2020-10-21) Main topics: dockerize ansible, docker role <>Added roles/sshd: Implemented sshd config option for sshd servers which need to be compatible to very old ssh clients (php 5.4 monitor01.app.infra > data01.xres…) gitclient: started role development docker: implemented docker host setup with docker-compose from pip ansible, ansible-inventory, ansible-playbook alias scripts on ansible.cs server new: ansible-docker: wrapper for user-specific misc/bin/docker-launcher location new: misc/bin/docker-launcher handler for docker specific tasks (build, start, stop) and launcher for ansible commands <>Changes ansible: removed “concepts”, contents moved to roles and README files Mitogen strategy handler installed, replaces old “linear” which has been 5x slower Ansible update to v2.9, new: “combine” filter capability Ansible now runs from within docker, adapted configs and set up user interface (see misc/bin and misc/docker) SSH timeout has been raised to 30 seconds to allow working with slow GS servers -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Gunnar Mann - Systemadministration - ________________________________________________________ TraSo GmbH Nonnenstraße 42 D-04229 Leipzig Tel.: +49 341 355 740 76 Fax: +49 341 355 740 21 E-Mail: g.mann@traso.de <mailto:g.mann@traso.de> <https://www.traso.de/> <https://www.facebook.com/TraSoGmbH> <https://www.xing.com/companies/trasogmbh> ________________________________________________________ Geschäftsführer: Haiko Gerdes Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Leipzig, HRB 21850 <https://www.kununu.com/de/traso1> ________________________________________________________ Geschäftsführer: Haiko Gerdes Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Leipzig, HRB 21850 <https://www.kununu.com/de/traso1>