The IBM Power Systems AIX collection provides modules that can be used to manage configurations and deployments of Power AIX systems. The collection content helps to include workloads on Power platforms as part of an enterprise automation strategy through the Ansible ecosystem.
The IBM Power Systems AIX collection is included as an upstream collection under the Ansible Content for IBM Power Systems umbrella of community content.
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This repository contains some example best practices for open source repositories:
- LICENSE
- README.md
- CONTRIBUTING.md
- MAINTAINERS.md
- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for more details you should read this.
- travis.yml - Look https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/tutorial/ for more details.
- AIX 7.3 will require additional software only for the flrtvc, nim_flrtvc and nim_vios_hc AIX Ansible Collection's modules.
Additional open-source software is installed by configuring [DNF] first. YUM only supports Python2.
- Modules flrtvc and nim_flrtvc requires wget. See demo playbooks examples.
- Module nim_vios_hc software requirements will be automatically installed using power_aix_vioshc role. See demo playbook examples.
- AIX 7.1
- AIX 7.2
- AIX 7.3
- Requires Ansible 2.9 or newer
- For help installing Ansible, refer to the Installing Ansible section of the Ansible Documentation
- For help installing the ibm.power_aix collection, refer to the install page of this project
- Requires Python 3.8 or newer
- To install (or upgrade) Python on AIX 7.1 and 7.2, you must first configure YUM. As part of YUM installation, Python2 will be installed by default.
- After setting up and installing YUM, you may update all the packages to the latest level using the yum update command.
- AIX 7.3 will come with Python3 pre-installed. Ansible will work with AIX 7.3 with no need for additional software.
Documentation of modules is generated on GitHub Pages.
If you have any questions or issues you can create a new issue here.
Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Ideally create a topic branch for every separate change you make. For example:
- Fork the repo
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Added some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
If you would like to see the detailed LICENSE click here.
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Authors:
- Paul B. Finley pfinley@us.ibm.com
- Vianney Robin vrobin@us.ibm.com
- Damien Bergamini dbergami@us.ibm.com
- Alain Poncet aponcet@us.ibm.com
- Kavana Bhat kavana.bhat@in.ibm.com
- Nitish Mishra nitismis@in.ibm.com
- Patrice Jacquin pjacquin@us.ibm.com
- Pascal Oliva poliva@us.ibm.com
- Julia Rebello julia.rebello@ibm.com
- Joseph de Joya joseph.de.joya@ibm.com
- Rae Yang raeyang@us.ibm.com
- Gomathi Mohan gommohan@in.ibm.com
- Pedro V. Torres pvtorres@us.ibm.com
- Shreyansh Chamola shreyansh.chamola@ibm.com