Ansible 2.7 has been released

Ansible 2.7

As announced, Ansible 2.7 is out. The changed look good, I’m testing my bootstrap role against it.

In 2.7 (actually since 2.3) all package modules don’t need with_items: or loop: anymore. This make for simpler code.

- name: customize machine
  hosts: all

  vars:
    packages:
      - bash
      - screen
      - lsof

  tasks:
    - name: install packages
      package:
        name: "{{ packages }}"
        state: present

Wow, that’s simpler so better.

A reboot module has been introduced. Rebooting in Ansible is not easy, so this could make life much simpler.