Chapter 4. Removed features
Removed features are those that were deprecated in earlier releases. They are now removed from the Ansible Automation Platform, and will no longer be supported.
The following table provides information about features that are removed in Ansible Automation Platform 2.5:
Component | Feature |
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Automation controller | Proxy support for the automation controller has been removed. Load balancers must now point to the platform gateway instead of the controller. |
ansible-lint |
Support for old Ansible |
Event-Driven Ansible controller | Tokens for the Event-Driven Ansible controller are deprecated. Their configuration has been removed from rulebook activations, and they have been replaced with the Ansible Automation Platform credential type. |
Ansible-core | Support for Windows Server versions 2012 and 2012 R2 is removed, as Microsoft’s supported end-of-life date is 10 October 2023. These versions of Windows Server are not tested in the Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 release. Red Hat does not guarantee that these features will continue to work as expected in this and future releases. |
Ansible-core |
In the Action plugin with an ActionBase class, the deprecated |
Ansible-core | The deprecated FileLock class is now removed. Add your own implementation or rely on third-party support. |
Ansible-core | Python 3.9 is now removed as a supported version of the automation controller. Use Python 3.10 or later. |
Ansible-core |
The |
Ansible-core |
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Ansible-core |
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Ansible-core |
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Ansible-core |
Removed Python versions 2.7 and 3.6 as supported remote versions. Use Python 3.7 or later for target execution. NOTE: This applies to Ansible version 2.17 only.
With the removal of Python 2 support, the |
Ansible-core |
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Ansible-core |
Removed the deprecated |
Ansible-core |
Removed the deprecated |
Ansible-core |
Removed the deprecated |
Execution environment |
The Python link is no longer available in the ubi9-based execution environments; only python3 is. Replace scripts that use |