Network: CY22 Q1 Q2 Roadmap

Status: PLANNED

This is an uncommitted roadmap for 2022 Q1-Q2 (some things might get dropped or added over the period).

Feedback welcome in #ansible-network on IRC Libera.chat or on Slack.

Ansible Network Working Group:

Network Group

Follow our progress:

GitHub Project Board

Network Platform Collections:

EOS, NXOS, IOS, IOS-XR, JUNOS, VYOS.

New network resource modules:

• eos_snmp_server
• eos_hostname
• eos_banner_global
• ios_snmp_server
• ios_hostname
• ios_banner_global
• nxos_snmp_server
• nxos_hostname
• nxos_banner_global
• junos_snmp_server
• junos_hostname
• junos_banner_global
• iosxr_snmp_server
• iosxr_hostname
• iosxr_banner_global
• vyos_snmp_server
• vyos_hostname
• vyos_banner_global

Network resource module enhancements:

• Modify fact gathering logic into resource module code path - Gather facts ends up as an action plugin, Derive argspec from doc string

ansible.netcommon collection:

NETCOMMON

• Move Base terminal/cliconf plugin to netcommon from core
• Make libssh default connection plugin
• Enable “import modules” default
• GRPC connection plugin work
• Opt-in sensitive value masking feature to replace AnsibleModule’s no_log
• GRPC connection plugin work
• log_messages enhancement to get messages to the controller faster (related https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76430)

ansible.utils collection:

UTILS

• validate config action plugin
• ip filter test plugins
• Recursive plugins
• fact_diff as filter/lookup plugin

ansible-pylibssh:

PYLIBSSH

• Make libssh default connection plugin

ansible_plugin_builder collection:

ansible_plugin_builder

community.yang collection:

yang

• Create and release ansible.yang collection
• Improve unit test/integration test coverages
• Plugin to list yang modules dependency for a given yang module
• RESTCONF plugin support