Roadmap

Volant is in pre-alpha. This page lists what comes next, roughly in order. It describes intent, not dates, and the changelog records what actually shipped.

Next: the modules real roles use

• The remaining modules backed by an action plugin: uri, script and their relatives. copy, dnf, fetch, package, reboot, service, template and unarchive already run, and so do modules from installed collections.
• The Jinja2 filters, tests and lookups that popular Galaxy roles still miss.

The goal is to run well-known Galaxy roles end to end and produce the same recap as ansible-playbook. Four already do, as published: decision record 0007 has the runs.

Then: speed

• Native versions of the most common modules in the agent, falling back to the Python path when an argument needs it.
• Native fact gathering.
• A faster warm Python server.
• Fewer synchronization points, found by analyzing the playbook.
• Compression and a leaner wire format.

Then: ready for daily use

• Vault.
• --check and --diff.
• YAML inventories.
• A volant check command that tells you whether a project will run, and what blocks it.
• A Homebrew formula.
• A nightly run over a corpus of public roles, compared with ansible-core.
• Video walkthroughs of the main workflows.

Later

• Controller-side plugins from collections.
• Dynamic inventories.
• Windows hosts and network devices.

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