[ansible-devel] Would love to disable lsblk when gathering facts

2016-08-09 Thread Brian Beach
Hi, I posted a comment to https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10779, but it's been closed, and the advice was to post to the group. So... At Backblaze, we use Ansible to manage our storage pods. Each storage pod has 45 or 60 data drives, each mounted as an ext4 file system. Running

[ansible-devel] Time frame for end of support for Python-2.4 and Python-2.5 on managed machines

2016-08-09 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
All things must come to an end. In the case of Ansible's support for managing hosts whose Python version is 2.4 or 2.5, that ending is within sight. Our plan is for the next 2.x release of Ansible after March of 2017 to require Python-2.6 or greater on the managed machines; dropping support for

Re: [ansible-devel] Re: Setup custom facts under Windows Help?

2016-08-09 Thread N. Bailey
Well, we know from this thread that at least one person cares enough about the full version string to grab it as a custom fact :) I've never needed Ansible to be aware of the full version so far, but it does seem like it could be useful. There's a couple of new cmdlets in 5.1, for example, so