Network:Core roadmap 2.6

Status: DRAFT

This is an uncommitted roadmap for 2.6

Feedback welcome in #ansible-network on IRC

For work that is happening outside of the ansible/ansible repo please see Network:Core-roadmap-Future

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Connection plugins: eapi & nxapi [EAPI_NXAPI_PLUG]

For more information see https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/103

Refactor persistent connections to handle using config manager and options instead of play_context [PER_CONN]

Refactor persistent connections to handle options by using config manager instead of pulling from play_context.

File fetch and put modules for network: network_get, network_put [FILE_FETCH]

Generic module to copy configuration files between network device and ansible controller node using scp/sftp over network_cli connection. Config file can be kept at ansible searchable path and can have ansible vars as per jinja2 template.

Netconf get module to fetch configuration and state information [NET_CONF]

For more information see https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104

Configuration caching [CONF_CACHE]

Documentation [DOCS]