Conversion to Collection - YAML roundtrip with ruamel

The System Roles team is working on making the roles available as a collection. One of the challenges is that we have to continue to support the old style roles for the foreseeable future due to customers using older versions of Ansible. So rather than just create a github repository for the collection and do a one-time conversion of all of the roles to collection format, we have decided to keep the existing github role structure, and instead use a script to build the collection for publishing in Galaxy.

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Release 2020-08-31

Linux System Roles 2020-08-31 has been released to Galaxy. This release has major enhancements to the existing storage and network roles, as well as the addition of the following roles:

  • logging (e.g. rsyslog)
  • metrics (e.g. pcp)
  • certificate (e.g. certmonger - manage auto cert issuance and renewal)
  • nbde_client, nbde_server (e.g. clevis, tang)
  • tlog (session recording)
  • kernel_settings (sysctl, sysfs)

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