On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 3:23 PM Ramkumar A <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for the response and providing clarity. I understand the first step is > to upgrade RHEL 7.9 to 8.x version to start considering Ansible upgrade. > > If we upgrade the server to RHEL 8.4, Can you suggest which one would be the > appropriate Ansible version to upgrade from 2.9.7 ? > > And does this affects the existing playbooks developed in the current version > ? > > Thanks, > Ram.
I publish RPM building tools for the leading edge ansible and ansible-core at https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo/ if you want, until someone at Red Hat convinces their employees publishing ansible to actually publish an RPM for RHEL. They do publish RPMs for ansible-core. That said, let's distinguish between "ansible", which was the old name, and "ansible-core", which is the new name. The modern "ansible" package does not contain ansible. It is of no use whatsoever for most ansible administrators. It is a collection of more than 100 ansible_collections modules, and has a published *dependency* on ansible-core, which actually contains the ansible software. The new "ansible" is not your friend. If you need the up-to-date list of such modules for reference or for local use, the list for the latest ansible 7.0.0 release is published at: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/ansible-7.0.0.deps There is no published RPM from Red Hat for the now misnamed "ansible" package, only for "ansible-core". That much more useful package is fairly up-to-date, ansible-core 2.13, from the "appstream" yum channel for RHEL 8. ansible-core cannot be kept up-to-date on RHEL 7 unless you're willing to install your own personal version of python 3.9 or later. I'd definitely hop to RHEL 8 or RHEL 9 instead for my ansible server. And yes, the word "ansible" is now very confusing. Nico Kadel-Garcia > On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 1:21:46 AM UTC+5:30 Matt Martz wrote: >> >> There is no upgrade path if you plan to continue using RHEL 7.9 as the >> controller. >> >> Current supported versions are going to require a Python version (3.8 or >> 3.9+) newer than what is available on RHEL 7.9. >> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:43 PM Ramkumar A <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Ansible 2.9.7 is running on RHEL 7.9 server. >>> We are planning to upgrade the Ansible to latest version. >>> >>> As per documentation, there are many Ansible versions released after 2.9.7 >>> and latest one is Ansible 7 (ansible-core and ansible). >>> >>> Can you advise which version would be the appropriate one to upgrade from >>> 2.9.7 on the existing RHEL 7.9 server ? Does latest Ansible versions >>> support RHEL 7.9 ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ram. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a8f76277-a1be-44e7-8dde-724befaf5dc8n%40googlegroups.com. >> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Martz >> @sivel >> sivel.net > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/eccb8266-c7d3-4633-8e83-660384fef651n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAOCN9rxZLfn0ErH9SVbn9yN-wV_h2U3qD4wJtYfZX2FwUDjnFQ%40mail.gmail.com.
