avoids some repetitive loading
- read config file only once
- now cache the ini parser per file
- optimize shell plugin loading
tried to 'optimize' vars_plugins loading but it creates issues with precedence,
probalby due to iterator not being reset, will look into it in subsequent fix/PR
(cherry picked from commit 42912e1ac8)
* ignore version when deciding callback loading
The code already defaulted to load the callback if the properties are not present
there was no need for us to also check the version
fixes#38270
* fix error msg on set optoins to use correct name
(cherry picked from commit 1850bb752f)
Updated GitHub Repos section to better explain what ansible-network@redhat.com is for (not an email list, but adding to the network-automation github repo.
(cherry picked from commit 9773157da6)
Under a non-utf-8 locale (for instance, LC_ALL=C), passing a non-ascii
filename to many APIs will traceback. Fix that by explicitly converting
to byte strings before passing to external APIs.
May fix#27262
(cherry picked from commit 2976b653ce)
Add a changelog for filename encoding in template action fix
(cherry picked from commit d90c36e320)
* [cloud] ec2_vpc_route_table: ignore routes without DestinationCidrBlock
Add module warnings rather than silently skipping
* Permit warnings for routes tables containing vpc endpoints to be turned off
* Add tests to ensure a VPC endpoint associated with a route table does not result in a traceback
(cherry picked from commit da3f7a8db1)
* should not need <>, but fails without
* adds anchor to keywords page, uses it on plugins pages
* fixes envvar link errors
* harmonize file name and ref name as python_3
(cherry picked from commit c8a9b411bc)
Don't round the parameter 12.04 in the explanatory paragraph unless `version()` rounds the parameter
(cherry picked from commit 5cf544e03e5f833e1614fa940849976550d55448)
(cherry picked from commit 56967497d5)
In the particular case of executin "chkconfig --list NAME", ansible
checks the stderr looking for a particular english message.
This message is different in other languages, Spanish for example
(although it have been corrected in the latests versions)
Fixes#29818
(cherry picked from commit e7db3c0eba)
* win_file: Handle [] in paths, fix touch in check mode (#37901)
* win_file: Handle [] in paths, fix touch in check mode
* Fixed typo for p/invoke command
(cherry picked from commit 4b57fa91d0)
* Added changelog fragment for win_file special char fix
(cherry picked from commit 61bcf4740f)
* ovirt_disks: Fix fail condition for LUN disk
Fixes: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38661
* ovirt_host_networks: Fix removing of network attachments
* ovirt: Support removing unmanaged networks
* ovirt: FCP storage domains don't have to have target
Exceptions need to use native strings. We need to make sure we're
combining native strings with native strings.
(cherry picked from commit 0b643009db)
Add changelog entry for winrm encoding fix
(cherry picked from commit a5e33969b1)
Node port field is not populated on K8S pods, and it's certainely the most useful port to use in pod when we need to interact with ansible outside of the cluster
* Ansible.ModuleUtils.FileUtil - Add ability to test non file system provider paths (#39200)
(cherry picked from commit b6afe6946d)
* Added changelog fragment
* fixes links on plugins pages
* fixes links in community pages
* fixes links in user guide
* adds anchors on playbooks pages
(cherry picked from commit 408e29cbd2)
Fixes#38732
Make matching leading newline for cli prompt
optional as there are cases when returned repsonse
for ios/iosx remote host doesn't have newline before
cli prompt.
(cherry picked from commit eebfa66c2b)
