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@@ -59,39 +59,49 @@ Limitations
This is a proof of concept: issues below are exclusively due to code immaturity.
High Risk
~~~~~~~~~
* Connection establishment is single-threaded until more pressing issues are
solved. To evaluate performance, target only one host. Many hosts still work,
the first playbook step will simply run unnecessarily slowly.
* Only UNIX machines running Python 2.x are supported, Windows will come later.
* `Asynchronous Actions And Polling
<http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_async.html>`_ has received
minimal testing.
* Only the ``sudo`` become method is available, however adding new methods is
straightforward, and eventually at least ``su`` will be included.
* Transfer of large (i.e. GB-sized) files using certain Ansible-internal APIs,
such as triggered via the ``copy`` module, will cause corresponding temporary
memory and CPU spikes on both host and target machine, due to delivering the
file as a single large message. If many machines are targetted with a large
file, the host machine could easily exhaust available RAM. This will be fixed
soon as it's likely to be tickled by common playbook use cases.
* The only supported strategy is ``linear``, which is Ansible's default.
Medium Risk
~~~~~~~~~~~
* The remote interpreter is temporarily hard-wired to ``/usr/bin/python``,
matching Ansible's default. The ``ansible_python_interpreter`` variable is
ignored.
* In some cases ``remote_tmp`` may not be respected.
* Interaction with modules employing special action plugins is minimally
tested, except for the ``synchronize``, ``template`` and ``copy`` modules.
* For now only Python command modules work, however almost all modules shipped
with Ansible are Python-based.
* `Asynchronous Actions And Polling
<http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_async.html>`_ are not yet
supported.
* In some cases ``remote_tmp`` may not be respected.
Low Risk
~~~~~~~~
* Interaction with modules employing special action plugins is mostly untested,
except for the ``synchronize`` and ``template`` modules.
* Only UNIX machines running Python 2.x are supported, Windows will come later.
* Transfer of large (i.e. GB-sized) files using certain Ansible-internal APIs,
such as triggered via the ``copy`` module, will cause corresponding temporary
memory and CPU spikes on both host and target machine, due to delivering the
file as a single large message. If many machines are targetted with a large
file, the host machine could easily exhaust available RAM. This will be fixed
soon as it's likely to be tickled by common playbook use cases.
* Only the ``sudo`` become method is available, however adding new methods is
straightforward, and eventually at least ``su`` will be included.
* The only supported strategy is ``linear``, which is Ansible's default.
* Ansible defaults to requiring pseudo TTYs for most SSH invocations, in order
to allow it to handle ``sudo`` with ``requiretty`` enabled, however it
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@@ -127,6 +137,10 @@ Behavioural Differences
Configuration
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.. warning::
Don't test the prototype in a live environment until this notice is removed.
1. Ensure the host machine is using Python 2.x for Ansible by verifying the
output of ``ansible --version``. Ensure the ``python`` command starts a
Python 2.x interpreter. If not, substitute ``python`` for the correct
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