Checkmk goes Ansible

:tada: Attention: This release is now finally available on galaxy.ansible.com :tada:

Thanks to the Galaxy developers for their support! :pray:


The holiday season hit, and it took some time to get the next release ready. :palm_tree: :beach_umbrella: :cocktail:

Also, the Ansible Galaxy Team released a new codebase to galaxy.ansible.com. This took some looking-into on our end as well. If you experience issues there, read on here for more information: New Ansible Galaxy codebase, URLs to collections on Galaxy change · Issue #59 · ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers · GitHub or head for the Ansible Forum.

Now on to the release: It is packed again with new features. :muscle:

  • @Max added a new module: The time period module. :clock1:
  • @lars.getwan added not one but four new lookup plugins for hosts and folders. :file_folder:
  • @lars.getwan also created a version lookup utility, that can be used in your module code, and was already implemented in the discovery module. :mag:
  • mueller-ma added firewall management support for the agent role. :fire:
  • Additionally it is now possible to manage sites without specifying an admin password. :lock: This can be useful for example, if you did not create the site with Ansible or you want to update a remote site and do not need the admin password. Be careful on site creation though, as without an admin_pw set during creation, a random password will be set. You can of course overwrite it later if you want.
  • We also fixed an issue, where agent registration on a remote site would fail, if the host was just created. :lady_beetle:

Those are the noteworthy changes. The rest is documentation improvement and the usual cleanups. :broom:

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