Network:2021 Till Dec Roadmap

Status: PLANNED

This is an uncommitted roadmap for 2021 Jun-Dec (some things might get dropped or added over the period).

Feedback welcome in #ansible-network on IRC Libera.chat or on Slack.

Ansible Network Working Group:

Network Group.

Follow our progress:

GitHub Project Board.

Network Platform Collections:

EOS, NXOS, IOS, IOS-XR, JUNOS, VYOS.

New network resource modules:

• eos_prefix_lists
• eos_logging_global
• eos_ntp
• eos_hostname
• eos_banner_global
• eos_snmp_servers
• nxos_prefix_lists
• nxos_logging_global
• nxos_ntp
• nxos_hostname
• nxos_banner_global
• nxos_snmp_servers
• ios_prefix_lists
• ios_logging_global
• ios_ntp
• ios_hostname
• ios_banner_global
• ios_snmp_servers
• junos_prefix_lists
• junos_logging_global
• junos_ntp
• junos_hostname
• junos_banner_global
• junos_snmp_servers
• vyos_prefix_lists
• vyos_logging_global
• vyos_ntp
• vyos_hostname
• vyos_banner_global
• vyos_snmp_servers
• iosxr_prefix_lists
• iosxr_logging_global
• iosxr_ntp
• iosxr_hostname
• iosxr_banner_global
• iosxr_snmp_servers

Network resource module enhancements:

• Modify fact gathering logic into resource module code path - Gather facts ends up as an action plugin, Derive argspec from doc string
• Refactor older resource modules that may not have used parsing engine.

ansible.network collection:

NETWORK.

• Platform agnostic role ansible.network.resource_manager to manage network resources - PROPOSAL.

ansible.netcommon collection:

NETCOMMON.

• Generic network_resource plugin to ease usage of resource module and provide a single entry point for higher-order roles - PR
• gRPC Connection plugin - PROPOSAL.
• gRPC generic modules (grpc_get/grpc_config) to use grpc connection plugin.
• gRPC subplugin for cisco.iosxr collection (ansible_network_os: cisco.iosxr.grpc)

ansible.utils collection:

UTILS.

• validate_config plugin for validating network configuration against a predefined set of rules - PROPOSAL

ansible-pylibssh:

PYLIBSSH.

• Improve unit testing/integration testing
• Add tests for GSSAPI based authentication support.
• Enhancements/Bugs

community.yang collection:

• Create and release ansible.yang collection
• Improve unit test/integration test coverages
• Plugin to list yang modules dependency for a given yang module
• RESTCONF plugin support