AIX

AIX Working Group

The AIX Working Group collaborates on AIX and AIX-related technologies (incl. PowerHA and HACMP) in Ansible.

News

• AIX works out of the box with most of the standard Unix modules.
• We formed a Working Group to improve the AIX-specific support in Ansible.
• We have an AIX pinboard, subscribe to it to stay informed!
• There is no automated testing infrastructure for AIX yet, individual testing by contributors/users is critical. This is why we need integration tests for every AIX module.

Community

Name	GitHub (+ IRC)	Role	Affiliation	HW?
Kairo Araujo	kairoaraujo / kairo	Lead	Independent	yes
Anatoly Pugachev	mator	Reviewer	Independent	yes
Adam Morris	MorrisA	Reviewer		yes
Brian Coca	bcoca	Reviewer	Red Hat/Ansible	no
Christian Tremel	flynn1973	Reviewer
Gabriel Forster	gforster	Reviewer		yes
Joris Weijters	molekuul	Reviewer		yes
Jurica Zrna	marvin-sinister / zem	Reviewer		no
Ramoon Camacho	ramooncamacho	Reviewer		yes
Tyler Cross	wtcross	Reviewer	Red Hat/Ansible
Dag Wieers	dagwieers / dag	Supporting	Independent	no

Add yourself to this list as a Reviewer (help review PRs) or as a Member (discuss issues/roadmap).

Ideas

• Add modules from the IBM AIXOSS community
• Add See Also sections to AIX modules referring related modules and websites
• Add AIX documentation (cfr. intro_bsd) #16178
• Fixes to existing modules to add AIX support
  • Add support for AIX (and /etc/filesystems) to the mount module, see aix_mount
• Improvements to AIX-specific facts, see aix_facts

Action plan

v2.8 release

• New AIX modules:
  • aix_chsec -- @flynn1973 #49057
  • aix_devices -- @kairoaraujo #32290
  • aix_efix -- @molekuul #49058
  • aix_filesystem -- @kairoaraujo #30810
  • aix_ipsec -- @molekuul #49065
  • aix_lvg -- @kairoaraujo #30381
  • aix_nimclient -- @molekuul #50760
  • aix_update_all -- @molekuul #49068
  • installp -- @kairoaraujo #30238
• Add AIX group of subsystems support to service module -- @kairoaraujo #33043
• Add AIX support to reboot module -- @gfoster #50353
• Add support for vstatfs to facts -- @inxonic #46759
• Add ansible_pkg_mgr: installp to AIX facts gathering -- @dagwieers #51410
• Move AIX-specific packages into its own sub-directory
• Add missing integration tests to existing modules:
  • aix_devices
  • aix_filesystem
  • aix_inittab
  • aix_lvg
  • aix_lvol
  • installp
  • mksysb
• Review open pull-requests -- open PRs
• Review open issues -- open issues

future

• TBD

Links

• IBM AIXOSS playbooks
• AIX PowerVM automation with Ansible by @kairoaraujo
• Ansible on AIX by @adejoux
• Automate infrastructure updates in a NIM environment (PDF)
  • Installation on AIX and first cookbook (video)
  • Ansible SUMA playbook (video)
  • FLRTVC playbook (video)
• Automate VIOS update in a NIM environment (PDF)