#ansible-network: Network Working Group

Meeting summary

1. 1. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/community/master/meetings/ical/network.ics (gundalow, 16:04:08)
   2. Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network (gundalow, 16:04:28)
   
   
2. nmap Dynamic inventory (gundalow, 16:05:27)
   1. nmap dynamic inventory https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32857 (gundalow, 16:05:50)
   2. Maybe of useful to some of you, reviews welcome (gundalow, 16:06:02)
   
   
3. Persistent Connection changes in 2.5 (gundalow, 16:07:17)
   1. Now that https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32825 is merged the Persistent Connection socket will be closed at the end of every play. Previously the socket would be left open for $TIMEOUT seconds after an ansible-playbook run (gundalow, 16:08:05)
   2. We are looking at including the PID of the main ansible process as part of the socket hash. (gundalow, 16:09:26)
   3. connection: network_cli is in devel, this is a big change, we welcome testing (gundalow, 16:09:51)
   4. We are putting together some draft developer docs on `connection: network_cli` (gundalow, 16:10:19)
   
   
4. Open Floor (gundalow, 16:21:53)
   1. Holiday in USA Thu & Friday, so limited response over the next two days (gundalow, 16:22:28)
   
   
5. Type manipulation #28446 (gundalow, 16:22:47)
   1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28446 (gundalow, 16:22:56)
   
   
6. Open Floor (gundalow, 16:28:39)
   
7. Legacy Facts (gundalow, 16:29:50)
   1. https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2017-11-01/network_working_group.2017-11-01-16.00.html (itdependsnetwork, 16:32:12)
   2. https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-network/2017-11-01/network_working_group.2017-11-01-16.00.log.html (itdependsnetwork, 16:38:16)
   3. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/751eab187f51cdc58a4c112abcb4265b7112ef1b#diff-83a6bf7294d0c5ac59ee458de130f795R355 (skg-net, 16:39:37)
   4. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/33121 (samerd_, 16:44:40)
   
   
8. Open Floor (gundalow, 16:45:08)
   1. There is an issue with VyOS 1.1.7 AWS image causing Shippable TEST=network issues to fail with a ssh key error. This is an AWS/VyOS bug. Fix is in flight (gundalow, 16:47:54)
   
   
9. 2.5 connection: network_cli (gundalow, 16:57:03)
   1. Right now in 2.5 you can do `connection: network_cli` for the Core maintained network modules (gundalow, 16:57:22)
   2. HTP(s) transports such as EAPI and NXAPI have not changed *yet*. It's likely that in 2.5 that they will not change, so you will still need `provider:\n transport: eapi` (gundalow, 16:58:57)
   3. The aim is in 2.6 to add support for `connection: network_eapi` `connection: network_nxapi` (gundalow, 16:59:35)
   4. when using `connection: network_cli` you must use `become:` & `become_method` (gundalow, 17:00:19)
   5. User facing docs for network_cli are in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31807 which also details `become` (gundalow, 17:03:37)
   
   
10. Legacy Role (gundalow, 17:10:07)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. gundalow (106)
2. itdependsnetwork (27)
3. jmcgill298 (11)
4. privateip (10)
5. zodbot (9)
6. samerd_ (7)
7. Anil (5)
8. caphrim007_ (4)
9. st8less (3)
10. jtanner (3)
11. rcarrillocruz (3)
12. skg-net (2)