v3.0

Welcome to pyinfra v3! This version is the biggest overhaul of pyinfra since it was created back in 2015. Most v2 deployment code should be automatically compatible, but as always be aware. Major changes:

Runtime operation execution

pyinfra now executes operations at runtime, rather than pre-generating commands. Although the change isn't noticeable this fixes an entire class of bugs and confusion. See the limitations section in the v2 docs. All of those issues are now a thing of the past.

This represents a huge overhaul of pyinfra's internals and should be a huge improvement for users.

Care has been taken to reduce the overhead of this change which still supports the same diffs and change proposal mechanism.

CLI flow & prompts

The pyinfra CLI will now prompt (instead of ignore, or immediately exit) when problems are encountered, allowing the user to choose to continue. Additionally an approval step is added before executing changes (this can be skipped with -y or setting the PYINFRA_YES environment variable).

Extendable connectors API, typing overhaul

v3 of pyinfra includes for the first time a (mostly) typed internal API with proper support for IDE linting. There's a whole new connectors API that provides a framework for building new connectors.

Breaking changes

• Rename _use_sudo_password argument to _sudo_password
• Remove winrm connector and windows* operations/facts, moving to pyinfra-windows
• The deploy decorator must now be called, ie used as @deploy(), and is now typed
• Remove broken Ansible inventory connector

Operations & Facts

• Add docker.container, docker.image, docker.volume, docker.network & docker.prune operations (@apecnascimento)
• Add runit.service operation and RunitStatus fact (@lemmi)
• Add TmpDir fact
• Add services argument to systemd facts for filtering
• Add type hints for all the operations (@stone-w4tch3r)
• Lowercase pip packages properly (PEP-0426)
• Rename postgresql -> postgres operations & facts (old ones still work)
• Improve IP/MAC parsing in NetworkDevices fact (@sudoBash418)
• Enable getting Home fact for other users (@matthijskooijman)
• Use users correct home directory in server.user_authorized_keys operation (@matthijskooijman)
• Fix destination/not_destination arguments in iptables.rule operation
• Fix remote dirs when executing from Windows in files.sync operation (@Renerick)
• Fix quoting of systemd unit names (@martenlienen)

Other Changes

• Add new _if global argument to control operation execution at runtime
• Add --debug-all flag to set debug logging for all packages
• Retry SSH connections on failure (configurable, see SSH connector) (@fwiesel)
• Documentation typo fixes (@szepeviktor, @sudoBash418)
• Fix handling of binary files in Docker connector (@matthijskooijman)
• Add will_change attribute and did_change context manager to OperationMeta
• Replace use of pkg_resources with importlib.metadata (@diazona)
• Fix identifying Python inventory files as modules (@martenlienen)
• Fix typed arguments order (@cdleonard)
• Check that fact commands don't take global arguments (@martenlienen)

v3.0.beta2

Welcome to pyinfra v3! This version is the biggest overhaul of pyinfra since it was created back in 2015. Most v2 deployment code should be automatically compatible, but as always be aware. Major changes:

Runtime operation execution

pyinfra now executes operations at runtime, rather than pre-generating commands. Although the change isn't noticeable this fixes an entire class of bugs and confusion. See the limitations section in the v2 docs. All of those issues are now a thing of the past.

This represents a huge overhaul of pyinfra's internals and should be a huge improvement for users.

Care has been taken to reduce the overhead of this change which still supports the same diffs and change proposal mechanism.

CLI flow & prompts

The pyinfra CLI will now prompt (instead of ignore, or immediately exit) when problems are encountered, allowing the user to choose to continue. Additionally an approval step is added before executing changes (skip with -y).

Extendable connectors API, typing overhaul

v3 of pyinfra includes for the first time a (mostly) typed internal API with proper support for IDE linting. There's a whole new connectors API that provides a framework for building new connectors.

More TBC...

v2.9.2

• Fix documentation generation for versioned releases

v2.9.1

• Add ability to retry SSH connections on failure (@fwiesel)
• Handle nested operation errors correctly like unnested operations
• Display list of valid Terraform keys when no match
• Fix tab aligned dpkg output parsing in deb.DebPackages fact (@martenlienen)
• Fix support page chat link
• Fix default argument checking when looking up arguments from host data
• Fix duplicate traceback printing in callback operations
• Fix use of removed --local-only flag in choco.ChocoPackages fact
• Fix sudo no user regex when calling facts
• Fix missing use of destination & not_destination args in iptables.rule operation

v3.0 beta0!

Welcome to pyinfra v3! This version is the biggest overhaul of pyinfra since it was created back in 2015. Most v2 deployment code should be automatically compatible, but as always be aware. Major changes:

Runtime operation execution

pyinfra now executes operations at runtime, rather than pre-generating commands. Although the change isn't noticeable this fixes an entire class of bugs and confusion. See the limitations section in the v2 docs. All of those issues are now a thing of the past.

This represents a huge overhaul of pyinfra's internals and should be a huge improvement for users.

Care has been taken to reduce the overhead of this change which still supports the same diffs and change proposal mechanism.

CLI flow & prompts

The pyinfra CLI will now prompt (instead of ignore, or immediately exit) when problems are encountered, allowing the user to choose to continue. Additionally an approval step is added before executing changes (skip with -y).

Extendable connectors API, typing overhaul

v3 of pyinfra includes for the first time a (mostly) typed internal API with proper support for IDE linting. There's a whole new connectors API that provides a framework for building new connectors.

More TBC...

v2.9

Long overdue! Happy New Year all :)

Added:

• Add server.security_limit operation & SecurityLimits fact (@maisim)
• Add password argument to server.user operation (@disser)
• Add url argument to brew.tap operation (@znd4)
• Add proxy argument to files.download operation (@themanifold)
• Add mtu, state, mac to NetworkDevices fact (@maisim)
• Enable/test paramiko v3 support (@pbsds)

Fixed:

• Fix Users fact when user description contains pipes (@julienlavergne)
• Fix multiple bugs in files.block operation (@stone-w4tch3r)
• Fix removal of sudo askpass file with server.reboot operation (@stone-w4tch3r)
• Disable home creation explicitly in server.user (@julienlavergne)
• Remove unused colorama dependency (@gdrosos)
• Automatically convert string/bytes IO objects to the correct mode

v2.8

Added:

• Add device and fs_type arguments to server.mount operation (@chriskingio)
• Add args argument to server.script_template operation (@chriskingio)

Fixed:

• Support FreeBSD in server.user & server.group operations (@wowi42)
• Add missing py.typed flag to package
• Fix lookup of systemd units containing . in the name (@cawo-odoo)
• Strip newlines off public keys read from disk (@sysadmin75)
• Properly escape database names in mysql.database operation (@tissieres)

v2.7

Been a while since a release, so there's a bunch of great stuff in thise one!

Added:

• Add experimental support for importing inventories from Python modules
• Add caro.packages operation (@wowi42)
• Add server.locale operation and server.Locales fact (@maisim)
• Add ensure_newline keyword argument to files.line (@yunzheng)
• Add args argument to server.script operation
• Add make put_file work with doas (@minusf)
• Handle adding git config key-values with multiple lines (@gchazot)

Fixed:

• Add Ubuntu latest (22.04) to CI tests (@gchazot)
• Fix codecov workflow (@ioO)
• Escape & character during sed replacement during line.replace (@sysadmin75)
• Fix last login time in server.users operation (@minusf)
• Fix fact hash for short facts where the backing fact takes arguments

v2.6.2

• Add support for classic confinment in snap.packages operation (@pabloxio)
• Support dictionaries for Terraform connector inventory
• Upgrade to distro>1.6 and remove patch hack
• Fix files.Md5File fact for BSD style output (@ScottKevill)
• Fix handling of protocol in iptables.rule operation (@sysadmin75)
• Fix a large number of documentation issues
• Add docstrings to Host methods
• Cleanup duplicate code (@minusf)
• Refactor has files facts (@ScottKevill)

v2.6.1

• Fix reuse of temporary file names in server.script operation (@link2xt)
• Fix retry handling on SFTP errors