Ansible 2.3 to be reviewed

Hi all, we're very happy to announce that Ansible 2.3.0 has been released!

This release includes many new features and improvements:

• Shared code for modules can now be placed in "module_utils" directories local to your playbook and/or roles to make it easier to share code across locally developed modules.
• Allow async tasks to work when an action plugin is used.
• Added a new "dense" callback to produce a more condensed output.
• ~140 new modules, including:
  • A new group of modules to aid in automating your Ansible Tower instances.
  • A new group of modules for managing oVirt.
  • A few new modules for AWS, including support for KMS and ECS/ECR.

In the network space:

• We’ve introduced new performance upgrades and additional vendor support. For more information about what’s new with Ansible Networking, take a look at our blog post (https://www.ansible.com/blog/networking-features-in-ansible-2-3), and check out the expanded list of Network Modules now available here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html.
• This release brings the total number of networking modules up to 267.

For Windows:

• Pipelining support for faster module execution (~20-50% performance boost for many modules).
• Support for the "runas" become method to execute as a different user and allow for transparent second-hop authentication in many cases.
• Many other improvements for existing WIndows modules such as check mode, and other fixes for the winrm connection type.
• Fourteen new modules, including:
  • win_domain
  • win_domain_controller
  • win_domain_membership
  • win_path
  • win_region
  • win_shortcut

Here is the official announcement on our website:

https://www.ansible.com/press/advanced-network-automation-with-2-3

As always, this update is available via PyPi and releases.ansible.com now, and packages for distros will be available as soon as possible.

Thanks and enjoy!

James Cammarata