Community Inventory Filtering Library Collection

This repository contains the community.library_inventory_filtering_v1 Ansible Collection. The collection includes helpers for use with other collections, that allow inventory plugins to offer common filtering functionality.

Code of Conduct

We follow Ansible Code of Conduct in all our interactions within this project.

If you encounter abusive behavior violating the Ansible Code of Conduct, please refer to the policy violations section of the Code of Conduct for information on how to raise a complaint.

Communication

• Join the Ansible forum:

  • Tag inventory-filter-dev: discuss the collection.
  • Collection Development: discuss development and testing of collections. Please add the inventory-filter-dev tag when starting new discussions involving this collection.
  • Social Spaces: gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
  • News & Announcements: track project-wide announcements including social events.

• The Ansible Bullhorn newsletter: used to announce releases and important changes.

For more information about communication, see the Ansible communication guide.

Tested with Ansible

Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, ansible-core 2.17, and ansible-core 2.18 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.

Included content

• inventory_filter docs fragment and plugin utils.

Using this collection

Usually this collection is installed as a dependency of another collection. You do not need to install it explicitly.

See Ansible Using collections for general instructions on how to use collections.

Collection Documentation

Browsing the latest collection documentation will show docs for the latest version released in the Ansible package, not the latest version of the collection released on Galaxy.

Browsing the devel collection documentation shows docs for the latest version released on Galaxy.

We also separately publish latest commit collection documentation which shows docs for the latest commit in the stable-1 branch.

If you use the Ansible package and do not update collections independently, use latest. If you install or update this collection directly from Galaxy, use devel. If you are looking to contribute, use latest commit.

Contributing to this collection

If you want to develop new content for this collection or improve what is already here, the easiest way to work on the collection is to clone it into one of the configured COLLECTIONS_PATH, and work on it there.

You can find more information in the developer guide for collections, and in the Ansible Community Guide.

Release notes

See the changelog.

Releasing, Versioning and Deprecation

This collection follows Semantic Versioning. More details on versioning can be found in the Ansible docs.

We plan to regularly release new minor or bugfix versions once new features or bugfixes have been implemented.

Releasing the major version X happens from the stable-X branch. The collection name depends on the major branch; the collections released from stable-1 have a _v1 suffix; the collections released from stable-2 have a _v2 suffix; and so on. The different suffix allows to install multiple major releases of the collection in parallel. This makes it possible to migrate some collections to major version 2 without forcing to upgrade all of them simultaneously.

Features might be backported to earlier stable branches. Bugfixes are backported as long as these stable branches are still maintained. Generally stable branches should still be maintained as long as they are still used by maintained branches of collections. Backporting bugfixes or creating more specialized bugfixes for stable branches might need to be done by the maintainers of the collections still using these branches.

Since multiple versions are maintained in parallel, there is no need to wait between deprecation and removal. Removal requires a new major release (and thus a new collection name due to a different version suffix).

More information

• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Collections Checklist
• Ansible Community code of conduct
• The Bullhorn (the Ansible Contributor newsletter)
• Changes impacting Contributors

Licensing

This collection is primarily licensed and distributed as a whole under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt for the full text.

All files have a machine readable SDPX-License-Identifier: comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying .license file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in .reuse/dep5. This conforms to the REUSE specification.