Ansible Collection: microsoft.ad

The microsoft.ad collection includes the plugins supported by Ansible to help the management of Microsoft Active Directory.

Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >=2.12.

Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

Collection Documentation

Browsing the latest collection documentation will show docs for the latest version released in the Ansible package not the latest version of the collection released on Galaxy.

Browsing the devel collection documentation shows docs for the latest version released on Galaxy.

We also separately publish latest commit collection documentation which shows docs for the latest commit in the main branch.

If you use the Ansible package and don't update collections independently, use latest, if you install or update this collection directly from Galaxy, use devel. If you are looking to contribute, use latest commit.

Release Policy

This collection follows semantic versioning (major.minor.patch) which in short means:

• A patch release can only contain bug fixes
• A minor release can contain bug fixes, features, and new deprecations
• A major release can contain bug fixes, features, new deprecations, removal of features, and other breaking changes

Deprecated features can be removed only 2 years after the deprecation warning was added. Once a deprecation warning has lasted for 2 years, they will be removed in the next major release.

Installation and Usage

Installing the Collection from Ansible Galaxy

Before using the Active Directory collection, you need to install it with the ansible-galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install microsoft.ad

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it via ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml using the format:

collections:
- name: microsoft.ad

Contributing to this collection

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the Ansible Active Directory collection repository. See Contributing to Ansible-maintained collections for details.

See Developing modules for Windows for specifics on Windows modules.

You can also join us on the #ansible-windows libera.chat IRC channel.

See the Ansible Community Guide for details on contributing to Ansible.

Code of Conduct

This collection follows the Ansible project's Code of Conduct. Please read and familiarize yourself with this document.

Testing with ansible-test

The tests directory contains configuration for running sanity and integration tests using ansible-test.

You can run the collection's test suites with the commands:

ansible-test sanity --docker
ansible-test windows-integration --docker

Publishing New Version

The current process for publishing new versions of the Microsoft AD Collection is done through a tagged release which triggers a Zuul run. Before the tag is set, the following steps must be done.

• Update galaxy.yml with the new version for the collection.
• Update the CHANGELOG:
  • Make sure you have antsibull-changelog installed pip install antsibull-changelog.
  • Make sure there are fragments for all known changes in changelogs/fragments.
  • Add a new release_summary fragment: echo "release_summary: Release summary for v..." > changelogs/fragments/release-summary.yml
  • Run antsibull-changelog release.
• Commit the changes and wait for CI to be green
• Create a release with the tag that matches the version number
  • The tag is the version number itself, and should not start with anything
  • This will trigger a build and publish the collection to AH and Galaxy
  • The Zuul job progress will be listed here

After the version is published, verify it exists on the Active Directory Galaxy page.

More Information

For more information about Ansible's Windows integration, join the #ansible-windows channel on libera.chat IRC, and browse the resources in the Windows Working Group Community wiki page.

• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Community code of conduct

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

See COPYING to see the full text.