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What’s New in the Ansible Content Collection for Kubernetes – 2.0

As the adoption of containers and Kubernetes increases to drive application modernization, IT organizations must find ways to easily deploy and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across regions, both residing in the public cloud and/or on-premises, and all the way to the edge. As such, we continue to expand on the capabilities of our Certified Ansible Content Collection for kubernetes.core.

In this blog post, we’ll highlight some of the exciting new changes in the 2.0 release of this Collection.

 

A New Name

Development on the kubernetes.core Collection had historically taken place in the community.kubernetes GitHub repository, which was built off community contributions before Red Hat supported it. That code base served as the source for both Collections. With this release, we have shifted all development to the kubernetes.core GitHub repository. Moving forward, the community.kubernetes namespace will simply redirect to the kubernetes.core Collection. If you are currently using the community.kubernetes namespace in your playbooks, we encourage you to begin switching over to kubernetes.core. This change better reflects that this codebase is a Red Hat supported Collection.

 

Forward-looking Changes

One of the main objectives of our 2.0 release was to Continue reading

What’s New in the Ansible Content Collection for Kubernetes – 1.2

Businesses continue to have a high demand for automation. This is not limited to infrastructure components, but stretches across the entire IT, including the platforms supporting application deployments. Here often Kubernetes is the way to go - and why in November we released the first Certified Content Collection for deploying and managing Kubernetes applications and services. Since then, the development and work in this area has only increased. That is why we recently released kubernetes.core 1.2.

In this blog post, we’ll go over what’s new and what’s changed in this release of our Kubernetes Collection.

 

New Modules

We continue to build on our existing support for Helm 3, the Kubernetes package manager: we added the new helm_template module, which opens up access to Helm’s template command.

 

Scenario: Examine a chart's content for further processing

There are times when you may need to take an existing chart and do something with its content. For example, there might be existing objects that you would like to bring under Helm's control and you need to compare what's deployed with what's in the chart. The newly added helm_template module gives you access to the rendered YAML of a chart. Continue reading