A few of us on the core team have been discussing that- the biggest issue with "officially" supporting it is that we don't have easy access to AIX to test against. Ideally, we'd have it in a virtualized environment where we could be running tests constantly against PRs and merges, but the couple of cloud AIX providers we've found were prohibitively expensive. We're also trying to avoid the "buy an old box on eBay and throw it in a closet somewhere" option (as we don't really want to be maintaining hardware, keeping the OS up to date, etc). We're playing with different options there for things like OSX as well, so if you've got any ideas, we're all ears.
Matt Davis Ansible Core Engineering On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 2:09:23 PM UTC-7, Adam Morris wrote: > > The old Linux Toolbox version didn't work (it was too old) but the new > version should work. > > I haven't tried it yet to be honest. Given that we are using NIM for AIX > install we haven't spent too much time on it here. I need to get back to > that, particularly once I have finished rebuilding out Linux builds again. > > The other issue that you will face is that fewer people use Ansible with > AIX so some modules just don't work. Cron was one I came across (now > fixed). I know that there is no pinstall package management. Be prepared > to do some troubleshooting and patching. > > Having said that, I would like to see better AIX support and when (if) I > get back to working on it I will be submitting more updates as I need them. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ea932d7a-1a89-4091-aacd-1bcb79ea4ef7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
