Windows Working Group agenda - 2018

[dagwieers]

This agenda has been migrated to a new location: #420

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The Windows Working Group is focused on improving Ansible's management of Windows hosts. The group meets every week on Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC (see ical)

More information related to the Windows Working Group is available at:
https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Windows

Feel free to add your questions to this ticket to be discussed during the upcoming meeting.

After being discussed, raised items are being updated, and after a month resolved items are being hidden from view (but remain accessible).

(Migrated from the previous agenda at #195)

[dagwieers]

New windows modules waiting for review/feedback:

• win_git: Add the win_git module ansible#49524
• win_credential_manager: win_credential: new module to manage credentials ansible#48840 new in v2.8
• win_psrepository: Add win_psrepository ansible#48828 new in v2.8
• win_hosts: Add new windows module: win_hosts ansible#46450
• win_partition: Add win_partition ansible#46292 new in v2.8
• win_iis_webhandler: Add win_iis_webhandler ansible#45998
• win_snmp: win_snmp: Initial commit ansible#45710 new in v2.8
• win_iis_logs: Add win iis logs ansible#45521
• win_chocolatey_pin: win_chocolatey_pin: pin a chocolatey package ansible#44766
• win_chocolatey_facts: win_chocolatey_facts: creates facts for chocolatey ansible#44765 Win chocolatey facts module ansible#46610 new in v2.7
• win_mssql_login_server_role: New module win_mssql_login_server_role: add or remove a server role to a sql login ansible#43943
• win_mssql_login: Adds new module win_mssql_login ansible#43866
• win_mssql_query: Add win_mssql_query module: Module for query MSSQL databases ansible#43774
• win_rds_cap: Add modules to manage Remote Desktop Services ansible#43406
• win_rds_rap: Add modules to manage Remote Desktop Services ansible#43406
• win_rds_settings: Add modules to manage Remote Desktop Services ansible#43406
• win_chocolatey_config: win_chocolatey_config: added module to manage Chocolatey config ansible#42915 new in v2.7
• win_chocolatey_feature: win_chocolatey_feature: new module ansible#42848 new in v2.7
• win_chocolatey_source: win_chocolatey_source: add new module to manage Chocolatey sources ansible#42790 new in v2.7
• win_wait_for_process: add win_wait_for_process ansible#40404 new in v2.7
• win_pester: Added module win_pester and relatives integration tests ansible#37343 new in v2.5
• psexec: psexec: new module to run commands on a remote Windows host without WinRM ansible#36723 new in v2.6
• win_dns_a: Adding module win_dns_a ansible#36493
• win_hostname: Add support for changing windows hostname ansible#36021 superseded by win_hostname: Add new win_hostname module ansible#40295 new in v2.6
• win_domain_computer: Adding module win_domain_computer ansible#35954 new in v2.6
• win_product_facts: win_product_facts: New module to get Windows product information ansible#35206 new in v2.5
• win_certificate_store: win_certificate_store: added new module ansible#33980 new in v2.5
• win_whoami: win_whoami: new module to emulate whoami executable ansible#33295 new in v2.5
• win_disk_facts: Added new module win_disk_facts ansible#32935 new in v2.5
• win_audit_policy_system: new windows module win_audit_policy_system ansible#31046 new in v2.5
• win_scheduled_task_stat: win_scheduled_task_stat: add new module to get stat on scheduled tasks ansible#30602 new in v2.5
• win_audit_rule: new windows module, win_audit_rule ansible#30473 new in v2.5
• win_disk_management: Adding new Windows module win_disk_management ansible#27634
• win_xml: win_xml module for manipulating XML files on Windows ansible#26404 new in v2.7
• win_certificate: New module 'win_certificate' ansible#25837

Please review these tickets on a weekly basis (if there was new progress, otherwise add instructions to the owner how to continue).

Once merged, please add to CHANGELOG.md !

[dagwieers]

Effort to have integration tests for all Windows modules. Please review and merge:

• win_iis_website -- @jborean93 -- win_iis_website: Add integration tests, check mode and better param support ansible#25902

Migrated from #195 (comment)

[dagwieers]

I would like to revisit ansible/ansible#29170 since the Unix python modules are doing this all over the place, without any framework.

[dagwieers]

We still have a backlog of known issues listed at our progress tacker and I was wondering what we wanted to do with this.

• Maybe first evaluate if the current list is still correct.
• Can we ask the original maintainer to fix some of these issues ?
• Should we somehow add information to the module documentation what the limitations are ?
  • E.g. This module is not idempotent, this module has not integration tests, this module is unmaintained ?
  • And actively ask for contributors to help fix known issues ?
• Can we do some effort to clean this up ourselves ?
  • Or create easy-fixes in the issue-tracker.

[dagwieers]

The current Windows community plan lists various ideas and functionality, some of which we have implemented (and even have removed since).

In order to prepare the new Ansible v2.8 Windows roadmap, it would be nice if we could collectively think about important issues we still have with Ansible/Windows integration. We've come a long way, and a lot of improvements are in the pipeline, but each of us know of issues that are still prevalent and require work/notes.

This could include modules/lookup-plugins/filters that would be of great value. So feel free to discuss on IRC and add them to the Wiki.

[jhawkesworth]

Of the 93 windows modules 33 have now been converted to Ansible.Basic. (AnsibleBasic is a new implementation of common functions/CmdLets available for use within Windows ansible modules)
Are we confident enough with it now to have a push at converting everything over?

Edit: discussed 4-Dec-2018. Downsides would be slight performance hit which is not yet mitigated by other planned changes. Would likely want to wait until we are confident the 2.8 codebase is being used before moving the likely most-frequently-used modules such as win_file, win_copy.

Consensus seemed to be that lesser used windows modules should be ok to move, provided they have tests. If modules don't have tests yet (and can be tested), then we should add tests first before attempting to move to AnsibleBasic.

[nitzmahone]

Working group meetings for Dec 18, Dec 25, Jan 1 are cancelled due to holidays

See everyone in the new year!

[dagwieers]

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This agenda has been migrated to a new location: #420

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