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#Ansible has gotten better at telling you where things are failing.This new exception gets picked up by ara, maybe we could do something...

#Ansible has gotten better at telling you where things are failing.

This new exception gets picked up by ara, maybe we could do something 🤔

I don't know who needs to hear this, but...I have lost count of the number of people who go something along the lines of: "I have...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but...

I have lost count of the number of people who go something along the lines of: "I have been meaning to try ara for a long time but our teams have been so busy that we haven't had the chance"...

Stop. Take 10 minutes and stop. Try it.

Most users are pleasantly surprised and cannot believe they did not take the time before.

Now these teams save time troubleshooting their #ansible playbooks and have more time for other things.

ara_label will probably land in the repository soon!The way it works is pretty nice!It'll allow users to set up dynamically templated...

ara_label will probably land in the repository soon!

The way it works is pretty nice!

It'll allow users to set up dynamically templated labels based on inventory or host vars.

Coming in the next version of ara: an #ansible module to manage playbook labels.Playbook labels are a simple way to put tags on your...

Coming in the next version of ara: an #ansible module to manage playbook labels.

Playbook labels are a simple way to put tags on your recorded playbooks to group them or provide the ability to search for them.

Previously these could only be set via an environment/configuration/ansible variable.

If you'd like to learn more about labels, check the docs: https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ansible-plugins-and-use-cases.html#playbook-names-and-labels

@cfgmgmtcamp The slides and recording of the presentation are available: https://kksat.github.io/talks/2025/ara-ansible/or on the Forum:...

@cfgmgmtcamp The slides and recording of the presentation are available: https://kksat.github.io/talks/2025/ara-ansible/

or on the Forum: https://forum.ansible.com/t/most-useful-development-tool-for-ansible-content-that-is-rarely-used-is-even-better-for-the-teams/40155

It is pretty humbling for ara to be downloaded over 100 000 times a month, even if a portion of that includes people using ara in CI/CD...

It is pretty humbling for ara to be downloaded over 100 000 times a month, even if a portion of that includes people using ara in CI/CD pipelines: https://pypistats.org/packages/ara

Thanks :)

It's been a while since we were able to revisit this but it would still be interesting to merge sometime.There is still work to do but...

It's been a while since we were able to revisit this but it would still be interesting to merge sometime.

There is still work to do but here's the latest iteration.

A new feature coming in 1.7.3 to auto refresh ara, another requested acronym at least as far back as 2021.Look forward to the auto refresh...

A new feature coming in 1.7.3 to auto refresh ara, another requested acronym at least as far back as 2021.

Look forward to the auto refresh arrow at the top right to enable automatic page refreshes allowing new results to be displayed automatically.

It will even turn green and spin when an auto refresh is imminent :D

@fosdem @cfgmgmtcamp Thanks for the presentation, Kirill Satarin!

@fosdem @cfgmgmtcamp Thanks for the presentation, Kirill Satarin!

The #Ansible contributor summit is Wednesday February 5th:...

The #Ansible contributor summit is Wednesday February 5th: https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-contributor-summit-at-cfgmgmtcamp-2025/9658

@rfc2549 will be doing a short session about Ansible performance at 12:10 Belgium time, 06:10 local time!

Let's find out together if Ansible and Python performance has improved over time !

The container images for running the ara server are overdue for an update from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41.The version of ara will remain the...

The container images for running the ara server are overdue for an update from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41.

The version of ara will remain the same but packages around it will be more up to date.

Expect this update to happen tomorrow, monday.

There has been requests to add some form of auto refresh in ara to see results as they come in.The UI is very simple: it doesn't have a...

There has been requests to add some form of auto refresh in ara to see results as they come in.

The UI is very simple: it doesn't have a lot of fancy javascript and asynchronous refresh stuff but how would something like this look ?

If you will be in Belgium for @fosdem and making the trip to Ghent for @cfgmgmtcamp, make sure not to miss this presentation about ara in...

If you will be in Belgium for @fosdem and making the trip to Ghent for @cfgmgmtcamp, make sure not to miss this presentation about ara in the #Ansible track: https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/S9ZRBD/

I cannot make it this year but may have made arrangements for stickers to make it in my absence :)

Updated container images have been built and pushed out to both quay.io and Docker Hub:- https://quay.io/repository/recordsansible/ara-api-...

Updated container images have been built and pushed out to both quay.io and Docker Hub:

- https://quay.io/repository/recordsansible/ara-api
- https://hub.docker.com/r/recordsansible/ara-api

It turns out 1.7.2 had not shipped as intended and we took the opportunity to bump the base images to Fedora 40.

They'll be updated to Fedora 41 eventually.

Enjoy !

There's blog posts that benchmark #ansible and ara in a variety of versions and database backends like these: -...

There's blog posts that benchmark #ansible and ara in a variety of versions and database backends like these:

- https://ara.recordsansible.org/blog/2023/02/26/benchmarking-ara-with-different-databases-and-python3.11-for-fun-and-science/
- https://ara.recordsansible.org/blog/2021/01/30/benchmarking-ansible-and-python-versions-for-fun-and-science/
- https://ara.recordsansible.org/blog/2020/11/01/benchmarking-ansible-and-ara-for-fun-and-science/

We were considering whether the container image settings should be tweaked and found out the numbers are much better with recent versions of ansible and python.

We last looked at #python 3.11 and ansible-core 2.14. We might be due for a benchmark update with python 3.12 & 3.13 with ansible-core 2.17 :)

An issue that's been opened for years boils down to making the ansible host facts that ara records more readable.Right now we just...

An issue that's been opened for years boils down to making the ansible host facts that ara records more readable.

Right now we just pretty print everything but we can do better.

I don't know where this is going yet but I took some time to sketch things out in a first iteration: https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/pull/569

ara 1.7.2 was built, tested and released for #Fedora 40, 41 and rawhide: coming to a mirror near you soon !

ara 1.7.2 was built, tested and released for #Fedora 40, 41 and rawhide: coming to a mirror near you soon !

ARA Records #Ansible 1.7.2 has been released and is available on:- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ara- Docker Hub:...

ARA Records #Ansible 1.7.2 has been released and is available on:

- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ara
- Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/recordsansible/ara-api
- Quay.io: https://quay.io/repository/recordsansible/ara-api

An updated package for Fedora will be available soon.

Release notes for 1.7.2 and all prior releases are available in the documentation: https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog-release-notes.html

Enjoy !

A second release candidate was tagged and released: 1.7.2rc2.It includes a bugfix to allow for UTF-8 encoded usernames and passwords.Unless...

A second release candidate was tagged and released: 1.7.2rc2.

It includes a bugfix to allow for UTF-8 encoded usernames and passwords.

Unless there are issues it will be released early next week.

ara 1.7.2rc1 has been tagged and released to PyPI as well as Docker Hub and Quay.io:- https://pypi.org/project/ara-...

ara 1.7.2rc1 has been tagged and released to PyPI as well as Docker Hub and Quay.io:
- https://pypi.org/project/ara
- https://hub.docker.com/r/recordsansible/ara-api
- https://quay.io/repository/recordsansible/ara-api

1.7.2 will be released sometime soon if there are no issues.

The full changelog is available in the git tag: https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/releases/tag/1.7.2rc1