0.8.0

Thank you to all the contributors! You are awesome!

And special thanks to @kmehant, our Red Hat Open Source Contest 2019 student.

Features

• You can now pass extra arguments to buildah from call when bender creates
  new build container. This can be done from CLI using
  --extra-buildah-from-args option of build command or in the playbook:
  vars → ansible-bender → buildah_from_extra_args. Thanks to @jordemort #140
• One can print bender's version using -V/--version options.
• The final image build by bender can now be squashed — all layers merged into
  one. This can be done with the --squash option or in the playbook: vars → ansible-bender → squash. @jordemort #154
• Entrypoints now can be set! Aside from default container commands. Similar
  drill: --entrypoint or vars → ansible-bender → target_image → entrypoint,
  thanks you, @slopedog #155
• Build times in list-builds are now more readable, enjoy! Thanks to @kmehant
  #161
• Bender can now locate platform-python of RHEL 8 and CentOS 8, thanks to
  @hhenkel #171
• When running bender in debug mode (--debug), ansible stdout callback plugin
  is set to debug (ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=debug). @kmehant #175
• Ansible executes a playbook in the buildah container using buildah run
  command. Before bender gets to that point, it tries to create a no-op
  container (buildah from --name $container $base_image && buildah run $container true) first to verify that the container runtime is correctly set
  up. @kmehant #174
• We have two new subcommands:
  • init — create a template playbook in the current working directory so you
    can get on-board bender's train more easily. @kmehant #184
  • clean — clean images from database which are no longer present on disk
    @kmehant #180

Bug fixes

• Buildah 1.7.3 introduced a backwards-incompatible change to commit command
  which required changes in bender's code. Bender is now able to work with
  both: buildah < 1.7.3 and >= 1.7.3. CentOS 8.0 and RHEL 8.0 have buildah
  < 1.7.3.
• Bender is using file locking when using its database (~/.cache/ab/db.json),
  the locks are now atomic thanks to @kmehant #176
• When you set bender-specific variables in your playbook (vars → ansible-bender) and there is a typo in any of the variables or the variable
  is not recognized, bender exits and informs you about this problem — we have
  implemented this to prevent typos in the configuration so that you would not
  be able to build invalid images. @kmehant #189
• Bender no longer prints output from buildah pull as errors. @kmehant #195

Minor

• Contribution guide is now placed in the upstream repo.
• You can now invoke ansible-bender directly from the upstream git repo using
  the common python way:

  $ python3 -m ansible_bender --help
  

  @kmehant #160
• Bender is now using Packit project for continuous integration.