News

2021-07-05
Rex-1.13.4

The Rex-1.13.4 release is now available on CPAN. It contains documentation updates, and a fix for inconsistent behavior between the content and source options of the file command.

2021-03-05
Rex-1.13.3

The Rex-1.13.3 release is now available on CPAN. It contains documentation updates, and a fix for debconf parsing. Behind the scenes, CI was migrated over to GitHub Actions as well.

2020-12-05
Rex-1.13.2

The Rex-1.13.2 release is now available on CPAN. It contains only documentation updates, mostly for the built-in template capabilities, but also fixes a few typos.

2020-11-05
Rex-1.13.1

Happy 10th birthday, Rex!

The Rex-1.13.1 release is now available on CPAN. It is focusing on CMDB bugfixes and documentation, while also fixing a missing feature flag. Upgrade is recommended for all users.

2020-10-05
Rex-1.13.0

The Rex-1.13.0 release is now available on CPAN. It adds on_no_change hooks for file management commands to trigger further actions when files are left unchanged. Upgrade is recommended for all users.

Events

2021-03-08
Learning automation using Rex

Ferenc Erki (FErki) will be the guest of Gábor Szabó on the next Code Maven live stream to learn about automation using Rex. Register for the free event via Code Maven or Meetup, and join the discussion!

2020-03-05
Unexpected use cases with Rex

Unexpected use cases with Rex at the 22nd German Perl/Raku Workshop 2020 in Erlangen by Ferenc Erki (FErki).

2019-11-09
Rex & Friends

Rex & Friends talk at the Barcelona Perl & Friends 2019 by Ferenc Erki (FErki).

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Release notes for 0.11

Rex

• Added LVM module and added LVM data to inventory.

  use Rex::Commands::LVM;

task "lvm", sub { my @physical_devices = pvs; my @volume_groups = vgs; my @logical_volumes = lvs; };

• Added hpacucli support to inventory

• Added CentOS 6 packages and support

• added order option to db select

  task "db", sub {
  my @data = db select => {
      fields => "*",
      from   => "table",
      order  => "updated DESC",
  };
  };    

• Fixed some bugs

  • Multiplicator in inventory module for TB and GB
  • removed OUT OF SPEC message from dmidecode
  • fixed db disconnects on fork (parallelism)
  • fixed some typos