Prepare for release 3.0.0 (#662)

Prepare for release 3.0.0 SUMMARY Updated version to 3.0.0 Executed antsibull-changelog to generate changelog ISSUE TYPE Docs Pull Request COMPONENT NAME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Reviewed-by: Alina Buzachis Reviewed-by: Helen Bailey <hebailey@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: GomathiselviS
2026-03-27 13:53:03 +00:00 · 2023-11-17 16:52:11 -05:00
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--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,44 @@ Kubernetes Collection Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics


+v3.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This major release drops support for ansible-core versions lower than 2.14, Python versions lower than 3.9 and updates python kubernetes library to 24.2.0, helm/kind-action to 1.8.0, kubernetes >= 1.24, along with bug fixes and minor changes.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- helm - add ``reuse_values`` and ``reset_values`` support to helm module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/394).
+- k8s - add new option ``delete_all`` to support deletion of all resources when state is set to ``absent``. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/504)
+- k8s, k8s_info - add a hidden_fields option to allow fields to be hidden in the results of k8s and k8s_info
+- k8s_drain - add ability to filter the list of pods to be drained by a pod label selector (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/474).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14
+- Update python kubernetes library to 24.2.0, helm/kind-action to 1.8.0, kubernetes >= 1.24.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- k8s - the ``k8s`` inventory plugin has been deprecated and will be removed in release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- helm - Put the chart_ref into quotes when running ``helm show chart``, ``helm upgrade`` and ``helm dependency update`` commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/653).
+- helm - delete temporary file created when deploying chart with option ``release_values`` set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/530).
+- helm - fix issue occurring when uninstalling chart with statues others than ``deployed`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/319).
+- helm - fix post_renderer argument breaking the helm deploy_command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/586).
+- helm - use post_renderer when checking ``changed`` status for a helm release (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/588).
+- k8s_scale - clean handling of ResourceTimeout exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/583).
+- k8s_scale - fix issue when scaling StatefulSets with ``updateStrategy=OnDelete`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/579).
+
 v2.4.0
 ======

@@ -96,7 +134,7 @@ v2.3.1
 Bugfixes
 --------

- Catch exception raised when the process is waiting for resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/407).
+- Catch expectation raised when the process is waiting for resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/407).
 - Remove `omit` placeholder when defining resource using template parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/431).
 - k8s - fix the issue when trying to delete resources using label_selectors options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/433).
 - k8s_cp - fix issue when using parameter local_path with file on managed node. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/421).
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Also needs to be updated in galaxy.yml
-VERSION = 2.4.0
+VERSION = 3.0.0

 TEST_ARGS ?= ""
 PYTHON_VERSION ?= `python -c 'import platform; print(".".join(platform.python_version_tuple()[0:2]))'`
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ You can also include it in a `requirements.yml` file and install it via `ansible
 ---
 collections:
  - name: kubernetes.core
-    version: 2.4.0
+    version: 3.0.0
 ```

 ### Installing the Kubernetes Python Library
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -762,3 +762,55 @@ releases:
      name: helm_pull
      namespace: ''
    release_date: '2023-01-24'
+  3.0.0:
+    changes:
+      breaking_changes:
+      - Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14
+      - Update python kubernetes library to 24.2.0, helm/kind-action to 1.8.0, kubernetes
+        >= 1.24.
+      bugfixes:
+      - helm - Put the chart_ref into quotes when running ``helm show chart``, ``helm
+        upgrade`` and ``helm dependency update`` commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/653).
+      - helm - delete temporary file created when deploying chart with option ``release_values``
+        set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/530).
+      - helm - fix issue occurring when uninstalling chart with statues others than
+        ``deployed`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/319).
+      - helm - fix post_renderer argument breaking the helm deploy_command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/586).
+      - helm - use post_renderer when checking ``changed`` status for a helm release
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/588).
+      - k8s_scale - clean handling of ResourceTimeout exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/583).
+      - k8s_scale - fix issue when scaling StatefulSets with ``updateStrategy=OnDelete``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/579).
+      deprecated_features:
+      - k8s - the ``k8s`` inventory plugin has been deprecated and will be removed
+        in release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31).
+      minor_changes:
+      - helm - add ``reuse_values`` and ``reset_values`` support to helm module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/394).
+      - k8s - add new option ``delete_all`` to support deletion of all resources when
+        state is set to ``absent``. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/504)
+      - k8s, k8s_info - add a hidden_fields option to allow fields to be hidden in
+        the results of k8s and k8s_info
+      - k8s_drain - add ability to filter the list of pods to be drained by a pod
+        label selector (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/474).
+      release_summary: This major release drops support for ansible-core versions
+        lower than 2.14, Python versions lower than 3.9 and updates python kubernetes
+        library to 24.2.0, helm/kind-action to 1.8.0, kubernetes >= 1.24, along with
+        bug fixes and minor changes.
+    fragments:
+    - 20230206-deprecate-k8s-inventory.yml
+    - 20231110-helm-quote-ref.yaml
+    - 517-k8s-make-name-optional.yaml
+    - 575-helm-add-support-for-reuse_values-and-reset_values.yml
+    - 579-k8s_scale-fix-issue-with-scaling-statefulsets.yml
+    - 583-k8s_scale-clean-handling-of-ResourceTimeout-exception.yaml
+    - 586-helm-fix-post-renderer-arg.yml
+    - 588-helm-use-post-renderer-for-helmdiff.yml
+    - 589-helm-uninstall-chart-releases-with-statuses-different-than-deployed.yaml
+    - 606-k8s_drain-add-pod_selectors-parameter.yaml
+    - 612-fix-helm-tests.yaml
+    - 629-add-hidden-fields-option.yaml
+    - gha-sanity-fixes.yaml
+    - helm-delete-temporary-file-created-when-using-option-release_values.yaml
+    - remove_ansible_2_13.yaml
+    - update_supported_versions.yaml
+    release_date: '2023-11-17'
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20230206-deprecate-k8s-inventory.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/20230206-deprecate-k8s-inventory.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
- k8s - the ``k8s`` inventory plugin has been deprecated and will be removed in release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20231110-helm-quote-ref.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/20231110-helm-quote-ref.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - helm - Put the chart_ref into quotes when running ``helm show chart``, ``helm upgrade`` and ``helm dependency update`` commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/653).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/517-k8s-make-name-optional.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/517-k8s-make-name-optional.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - k8s - add new option delete_all to support deletion of all resources when state is set to absent. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/504)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/575-helm-add-support-for-reuse_values-and-reset_values.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/575-helm-add-support-for-reuse_values-and-reset_values.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - helm - add reuse_values and reset_values support to helm module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/394).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/579-k8s_scale-fix-issue-with-scaling-statefulsets.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/579-k8s_scale-fix-issue-with-scaling-statefulsets.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - k8s_scale - fix issue when scaling StatefulSets with updateStrategy=OnDelete (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/579).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/583-k8s_scale-clean-handling-of-ResourceTimeout-exception.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/583-k8s_scale-clean-handling-of-ResourceTimeout-exception.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - k8s_scale - clean handling of ResourceTimeout exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/583).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/586-helm-fix-post-renderer-arg.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/586-helm-fix-post-renderer-arg.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - helm - fix post_renderer argument breaking the helm deploy_command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/586).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/588-helm-use-post-renderer-for-helmdiff.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/588-helm-use-post-renderer-for-helmdiff.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - helm - use post_renderer when checking 'changed' status for a helm release (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/588).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/589-helm-uninstall-chart-releases-with-statuses-different-than-deployed.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/589-helm-uninstall-chart-releases-with-statuses-different-than-deployed.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - helm - fix issue occurring when uninstalling chart with statues others than 'deployed' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/319).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/606-k8s_drain-add-pod_selectors-parameter.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/606-k8s_drain-add-pod_selectors-parameter.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - k8s_drain - add ability to filter the list of pods to be drained by a pod label selector (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/474).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/612-fix-helm-tests.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/612-fix-helm-tests.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-trivial:
-  - add dependency with `install_helm` for `helm_set_values` and `helm_kubeconfig` integration tests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/612).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/629-add-hidden-fields-option.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/629-add-hidden-fields-option.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - k8s, k8s_info - add a hidden_fields option to allow fields to be hidden in the results of k8s and k8s_info
--- a/changelogs/fragments/gha-sanity-fixes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/gha-sanity-fixes.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-trivial:
-  - add github workflow and fix sanity failures (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/614).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/helm-delete-temporary-file-created-when-using-option-release_values.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/helm-delete-temporary-file-created-when-using-option-release_values.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - helm - delete temporary file created when deploying chart with option release_values set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/530).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/remove_ansible_2_13.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/remove_ansible_2_13.yaml
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
---
-trivial:
-  - organize the workflows and pin ansible-lint to 6.21.x.
-breaking_changes:
-  - Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14
--- a/changelogs/fragments/update_supported_versions.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/update_supported_versions.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-breaking_changes:
-  - Update python kubernetes library to 24.2.0 , helm/kind-action to 1.8.0, kubernetes >= 1.24.
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_info_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_info_module.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,27 @@ Parameters
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kube_context</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>get_all_values</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Set to <code>True</code> if you want to get all (computed) values of the release.</div>
+                        <div>When <code>False</code> (default), only user supplied values are returned.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -127,7 +148,7 @@ Parameters
                    <b>kubeconfig</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
+                        <span style="color: purple">raw</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
@@ -135,6 +156,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Helm option to specify kubeconfig path to use.</div>
                        <div>If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG</code> will be used instead.</div>
+                        <div>The configuration can be provided as dictionary. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kubeconfig_path</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -172,6 +194,32 @@ Parameters
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: namespace</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>release_state</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Show releases as per their states.</div>
+                        <div>Default value is <code>deployed</code> and <code>failed</code>.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>all</code>, show all releases without any filter applied.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>deployed</code>, show deployed releases.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>failed</code>, show failed releases.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>pending</code>, show pending releases.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>superseded</code>, show superseded releases.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>uninstalled</code>, show uninstalled releases, if <code>helm uninstall --keep-history</code> was used.</div>
+                        <div>If set to <code>uninstalling</code>, show releases that are currently being uninstalled.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -204,11 +252,18 @@ Examples

 .. code-block:: yaml

-    - name: Deploy latest version of Grafana chart inside monitoring namespace
+    - name: Gather information of Grafana chart inside monitoring namespace
      kubernetes.core.helm_info:
        name: test
        release_namespace: monitoring

+    - name: Gather information about test-chart with pending state
+      kubernetes.core.helm_info:
+        name: test-chart
+        release_namespace: testenv
+        release_state:
+        - pending
+


 Return Values
@@ -270,6 +325,42 @@ Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late
                    <br/>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
+                    <b>hooks</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                      <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                       / <span style="color: purple">elements=dictionary</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>always</td>
+                <td>
+                            <div>Hooks of the release</div>
+                    <br/>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
+                    <b>manifest</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                      <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                       / <span style="color: purple">elements=dictionary</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>always</td>
+                <td>
+                            <div>Manifest of the release</div>
+                    <br/>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
                <td colspan="1">
@@ -302,6 +393,23 @@ Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late
                    <br/>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
+                    <b>notes</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>always</td>
+                <td>
+                            <div>Notes of the release</div>
+                    <br/>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
                <td colspan="1">
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_module.rst
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ Parameters

    <table  border=0 cellpadding=0 class="documentation-table">
        <tr>
-            <th colspan="1">Parameter</th>
+            <th colspan="2">Parameter</th>
            <th>Choices/<font color="blue">Defaults</font></th>
            <th width="100%">Comments</th>
        </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>api_key</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>atomic</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>binary_path</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>ca_cert</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>chart_ref</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>chart_repo_url</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>chart_version</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>context</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>create_namespace</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -194,13 +194,14 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>dependency_update</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@ Parameters
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
-                        <div>Run standelone <code>helm dependency update CHART</code> before the operation.</div>
+                        <div>Run standalone <code>helm dependency update CHART</code> before the operation.</div>
                        <div>Run inline <code>--dependency-update</code> with <code>helm install</code> command. This feature is not supported yet with the <code>helm upgrade</code> command.</div>
                        <div>So we should consider to use <em>dependency_update</em> options with <em>replace</em> option enabled when specifying <em>chart_repo_url</em>.</div>
                        <div>The <em>dependency_update</em> option require the add of <code>dependencies</code> block in <code>Chart.yaml/requirements.yaml</code> file.</div>
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>disable_hook</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>force</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -256,7 +257,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>history_max</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -273,7 +274,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>host</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -289,12 +290,12 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>kubeconfig</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
+                        <span style="color: purple">raw</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
@@ -302,11 +303,28 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Helm option to specify kubeconfig path to use.</div>
                        <div>If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG</code> will be used instead.</div>
+                        <div>The configuration can be provided as dictionary. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kubeconfig_path</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>post_renderer</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Path to an executable to be used for post rendering.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>purge</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -325,7 +343,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>release_name</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -342,7 +360,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>release_namespace</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -359,7 +377,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>release_state</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -379,7 +397,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>release_values</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -396,7 +414,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>replace</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -418,7 +436,108 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>reset_values</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.5.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li>no</li>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>yes</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>When upgrading package, reset the values to the ones built into the chart.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>reuse_values</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.5.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li>no</li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>When upgrading package, specifies wether to reuse the last release&#x27;s values and merge in any overrides from parameters <em>release_values</em>, <em>values_files</em> or <em>set_values</em>.</div>
+                        <div>If <em>reset_values</em> is set to <code>True</code>, this is ignored.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>set_values</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=dictionary</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Values to pass to chart configuration</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+                                <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>value</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                         / <span style="color: red">required</span>
+                    </div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Value to pass to chart configuration (e.g phase=prod).</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>value_type</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">-</span>
+                    </div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>raw</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>string</li>
+                                    <li>json</li>
+                                    <li>file</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Use <code>raw</code> set individual value.</div>
+                        <div>Use <code>string</code> to force a string for an individual value.</div>
+                        <div>Use <code>file</code> to set individual values from a file when the value itself is too long for the command line or is dynamically generated.</div>
+                        <div>Use <code>json</code> to set json values (scalars/objects/arrays). This feature requires helm&gt;=3.10.0.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>skip_crds</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -438,7 +557,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>timeout</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -456,7 +575,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>update_repo_cache</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -475,7 +594,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>validate_certs</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -496,7 +615,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>values_files</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -517,7 +636,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>wait</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -537,7 +656,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>wait_timeout</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -556,6 +675,12 @@ Parameters
    <br/>


+Notes
+-----
+
+.. note::
+   - The default idempotency check can fail to report changes when ``release_state`` is set to ``present`` and ``chart_repo_url`` is defined. Install helm diff >= 3.4.1 for better results.
+


 Examples
@@ -612,6 +737,15 @@ Examples
        state: absent
        update_repo_cache: true

+    - name: Deploy Grafana chart using set values on target
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: test
+        chart_ref: stable/grafana
+        release_namespace: monitoring
+        set_values:
+          - value: phase=prod
+            value_type: string
+
    # From git
    - name: Git clone stable repo on HEAD
      ansible.builtin.git:
@@ -657,6 +791,17 @@ Examples
          logging:
            enabled: True

+    # Deploy latest version
+    - name: Deploy latest version of Grafana chart using reuse_values
+      kubernetes.core.helm:
+        name: test
+        chart_ref: stable/grafana
+        release_namespace: monitoring
+        reuse_values: true
+        values:
+          replicas: 2
+          version: 3e8ec0b2dffa40fb97d5342e4af887de95faa8c61a62480dd7f8aa03dffcf533
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_plugin_info_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_plugin_info_module.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Parameters
                    <b>kubeconfig</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
+                        <span style="color: purple">raw</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Helm option to specify kubeconfig path to use.</div>
                        <div>If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG</code> will be used instead.</div>
+                        <div>The configuration can be provided as dictionary. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kubeconfig_path</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_plugin_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_plugin_module.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Parameters
                    <b>kubeconfig</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
+                        <span style="color: purple">raw</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Helm option to specify kubeconfig path to use.</div>
                        <div>If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG</code> will be used instead.</div>
+                        <div>The configuration can be provided as dictionary. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kubeconfig_path</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Name of Helm plugin.</div>
-                        <div>Required only if <code>state=absent</code>.</div>
+                        <div>Required only if <code>state=absent</code> or <code>state=latest</code>.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -170,6 +171,23 @@ Parameters
                        <div>Required only if <code>state=present</code>.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>plugin_version</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Plugin version to install. If this is not specified, the latest version is installed.</div>
+                        <div>Ignored when <code>state=absent</code> or <code>state=latest</code>.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -183,10 +201,12 @@ Parameters
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>absent</li>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>present</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>latest</li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>If <code>state=present</code> the Helm plugin will be installed.</div>
+                        <div>If <code>state=latest</code> the Helm plugin will be updated. Added in version 2.3.0.</div>
                        <div>If <code>state=absent</code> the Helm plugin will be removed.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -237,6 +257,17 @@ Examples
        plugin_name: env
        state: absent

+    - name: Install Helm plugin with a specific version
+      kubernetes.core.helm_plugin:
+        plugin_version: 2.0.1
+        plugin_path: https://domain/path/to/plugin.tar.gz
+        state: present
+
+    - name: Update Helm plugin
+      kubernetes.core.helm_plugin:
+        plugin_name: secrets
+        state: latest
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_repository_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_repository_module.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,22 @@ Parameters
            <th>Choices/<font color="blue">Defaults</font></th>
            <th width="100%">Comments</th>
        </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>api_key</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via <code>K8S_AUTH_API_KEY</code> environment variable.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -55,6 +71,117 @@ Parameters
                        <div>The path of a helm binary to use.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>ca_cert</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Path to a CA certificate used to authenticate with the API. The full certificate chain must be provided to avoid certificate validation errors. Can also be specified via <code>K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT</code> environment variable.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: ssl_ca_cert</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>context</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Helm option to specify which kubeconfig context to use.</div>
+                        <div>If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT</code> will be used instead.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kube_context</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>force_update</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Whether or not to replace (overwrite) the repo if it already exists.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: force</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>host</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via <code>K8S_AUTH_HOST</code> environment variable.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>kubeconfig</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">raw</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Helm option to specify kubeconfig path to use.</div>
+                        <div>If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG</code> will be used instead.</div>
+                        <div>The configuration can be provided as dictionary.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: kubeconfig_path</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>pass_credentials</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Pass credentials to all domains.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -142,6 +269,27 @@ Parameters
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: username</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>validate_certs</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li>no</li>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>yes</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Whether or not to verify the API server&#x27;s SSL certificates. Can also be specified via <code>K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL</code> environment variable.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: verify_ssl</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
    </table>
    <br/>

--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_template_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.helm_template_module.rst
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ Parameters

    <table  border=0 cellpadding=0 class="documentation-table">
        <tr>
-            <th colspan="1">Parameter</th>
+            <th colspan="2">Parameter</th>
            <th>Choices/<font color="blue">Defaults</font></th>
            <th width="100%">Comments</th>
        </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>binary_path</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>chart_ref</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>chart_repo_url</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>chart_version</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -97,13 +97,14 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>dependency_update</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
@@ -119,7 +120,27 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>disable_hook</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Prevent hooks from running during install.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>include_crds</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -138,7 +159,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>output_dir</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -154,7 +175,40 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>release_name</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Release name to use in rendered templates.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: name</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>release_namespace</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>namespace scope for this request.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>release_values</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -171,7 +225,85 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>set_values</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=dictionary</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Values to pass to chart configuration.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+                                <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>value</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                         / <span style="color: red">required</span>
+                    </div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Value to pass to chart configuration (e.g phase=prod).</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>value_type</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">-</span>
+                    </div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>raw</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>string</li>
+                                    <li>json</li>
+                                    <li>file</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Use <code>raw</code> set individual value.</div>
+                        <div>Use <code>string</code> to force a string for an individual value.</div>
+                        <div>Use <code>file</code> to set individual values from a file when the value itself is too long for the command line or is dynamically generated.</div>
+                        <div>Use <code>json</code> to set json values (scalars/objects/arrays). This feature requires helm&gt;=3.10.0.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>show_only</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Only show manifests rendered from the given templates.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>update_repo_cache</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -190,7 +322,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="1">
+                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>values_files</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
@@ -235,6 +367,24 @@ Examples
        dest: myfile.yaml
        content: "{{ result.stdout }}"

+    - name: Render MutatingWebhooksConfiguration for revision tag "canary", rev "1-13-0"
+      kubernetes.core.helm_template:
+        chart_ref: istio/istiod
+        chart_version: "1.13.0"
+        release_namespace: "istio-system"
+        show_only:
+          - "templates/revision-tags.yaml"
+        release_values:
+          revision: "1-13-0"
+          revisionTags:
+            - "canary"
+      register: result
+
+    - name: Write templates to file
+      copy:
+        dest: myfile.yaml
+        content: "{{ result.stdout }}"
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_cluster_info_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_cluster_info_module.rst
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -203,9 +203,29 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_cp_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_cp_module.rst
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0


 Parameters
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -271,6 +272,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>This option is ignored when <em>content</em> is set or when <em>state</em> is set to <code>from_pod</code>.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -538,7 +558,7 @@ Examples
        state: from_pod

    # copy content into a file in the remote pod
-    - name: Copy /tmp/foo from a remote pod to /tmp/bar locally
+    - name: Copy content into a file in the remote pod
      kubernetes.core.k8s_cp:
        state: to_pod
        namespace: some-namespace
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_drain_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_drain_module.rst
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0


 Parameters
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ Parameters
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">{}</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Specify options to delete pods.</div>
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ Parameters
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
@@ -155,7 +157,7 @@ Parameters
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
-                        <div>Continue even if there are pods using emptyDir (local data that will be deleted when the node is drained)</div>
+                        <div>Continue even if there are pods using emptyDir (local data that will be deleted when the node is drained).</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -334,6 +336,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -353,6 +356,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>The name of the node.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -392,6 +414,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>pod_selectors</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.5.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Label selector to filter pods on the node.</div>
+                        <div>This option has effect only when <code>state</code> is set to <em>drain</em>.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: label_selectors</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -554,8 +595,7 @@ Examples
      kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
        state: drain
        name: foo
-        delete_options:
-          force: yes
+        force: yes

    - name: Drain node "foo", but abort if there are pods not managed by a ReplicationController, Job, or DaemonSet, and use a grace period of 15 minutes.
      kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
@@ -574,6 +614,14 @@ Examples
        state: cordon
        name: foo

+    - name: Drain node "foo" using label selector to filter the list of pods to be drained.
+      kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
+        state: drain
+        name: foo
+        pod_selectors:
+        - 'app!=csi-attacher'
+        - 'app!=csi-provisioner'
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_exec_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_exec_module.rst
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
-                        <div>The command to execute</div>
+                        <div>The command to execute.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>The name of the container in the pod to connect to.</div>
                        <div>Defaults to only container if there is only one container in the pod.</div>
+                        <div>If not specified, will choose the first container from the given pod as kubectl cmdline does.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -214,6 +215,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -230,7 +232,26 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
-                        <div>The pod namespace name</div>
+                        <div>The pod namespace name.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -285,7 +306,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
-                        <div>The pod name</div>
+                        <div>The pod name.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -302,7 +323,7 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection.</div>
                        <div>Can also be specified via <em>K8S_AUTH_PROXY</em> environment variable.</div>
-                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (for example, HTTP_PROXY).</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -449,6 +470,13 @@ Examples
        msg: "cmd failed"
      when: command_status.rc != 0

+    - name: Specify a container name to execute the command on
+      kubernetes.core.k8s_exec:
+        namespace: myproject
+        pod: busybox-test
+        container: manager
+        command: echo "hello"
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_info_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_info_module.rst
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -153,11 +153,31 @@ Parameters
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>List of field selectors to use to filter results</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>hidden_fields</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.5.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Hide fields matching any of the field definitions in the result</div>
+                        <div>An example might be <code>hidden_fields=[metadata.managedFields]</code></div>
+                        <div>Only field definitions that don&#x27;t reference list items are supported (so V(spec.containers[0]) would not work)</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -240,6 +260,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -254,6 +275,7 @@ Parameters
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>List of label selectors to use to filter results</div>
@@ -295,6 +317,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, the <em>metadata.namespace</em> value from the <em>resource_definition</em> will override this option.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_inventory.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_inventory.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ kubernetes.core.k8s
   :local:
   :depth: 1

+DEPRECATED
+----------
+:Removed in collection release after 
+:Why: As discussed in https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31, we decided to
+remove the k8s inventory plugin in release 4.0.0.
+
+:Alternative: Use :ref:`kubernetes.core.k8s_info <kubernetes.core.k8s_info_module>` and :ref:`ansible.builtin.add_host <ansible.builtin.add_host_module>` instead.
+
+

 Synopsis
 --------
@@ -27,8 +36,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the local Ansible controller node that executes this inventory.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -322,24 +331,24 @@ Examples

    # File must be named k8s.yaml or k8s.yml

-    # Authenticate with token, and return all pods and services for all namespaces
-    plugin: kubernetes.core.k8s
-    connections:
-      - host: https://192.168.64.4:8443
-        api_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-        validate_certs: false
+    - name: Authenticate with token, and return all pods and services for all namespaces
+      plugin: kubernetes.core.k8s
+      connections:
+        - host: https://192.168.64.4:8443
+          api_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+          validate_certs: false

-    # Use default config (~/.kube/config) file and active context, and return objects for a specific namespace
-    plugin: kubernetes.core.k8s
-    connections:
-      - namespaces:
-        - testing
+    - name: Use default config (~/.kube/config) file and active context, and return objects for a specific namespace
+      plugin: kubernetes.core.k8s
+      connections:
+        - namespaces:
+            - testing

-    # Use a custom config file, and a specific context.
-    plugin: kubernetes.core.k8s
-    connections:
-      - kubeconfig: /path/to/config
-        context: 'awx/192-168-64-4:8443/developer'
+    - name: Use a custom config file, and a specific context.
+      plugin: kubernetes.core.k8s
+      connections:
+        - kubeconfig: /path/to/config
+          context: 'awx/192-168-64-4:8443/developer'



@@ -348,11 +357,15 @@ Status
 ------


+- This inventory will be removed in version 4.0.0. *[deprecated]*
+- For more information see `DEPRECATED`_.
+
+
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~

- Chris Houseknecht <@chouseknecht>
- Fabian von Feilitzsch <@fabianvf>
+- Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
+- Fabian von Feilitzsch (@fabianvf)


 .. hint::
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch_module.rst
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11
 - jsonpatch

@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -256,6 +257,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>Use in conjunction with <em>api_version</em>, <em>kind</em>, and <em>name</em> to identify a specific object.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -594,7 +614,7 @@ Examples
            path: /metadata/labels/app
            value: myapp
          - op: replace
-            patch: /spec/containers/0/image
+            path: /spec/containers/0/image
            value: nginx


--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_log_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_log_module.rst
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -44,6 +44,27 @@ Parameters
            <th>Choices/<font color="blue">Defaults</font></th>
            <th width="100%">Comments</th>
        </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>all_containers</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li>no</li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>If set to <code>true</code>, retrieve all containers&#x27; logs in the pod(s).</div>
+                        <div>mutually exclusive with <code>container</code>.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -141,7 +162,8 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Use to specify the container within a pod to grab the log from.</div>
                        <div>If there is only one container, this will default to that container.</div>
-                        <div>If there is more than one container, this option is required.</div>
+                        <div>If there is more than one container, this option is required or set <em>all_containers</em> to <code>true</code>.</div>
+                        <div>mutually exclusive with <code>all_containers</code>.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -240,6 +262,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -254,6 +277,7 @@ Parameters
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>List of label selectors to use to filter results</div>
@@ -295,6 +319,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, the <em>metadata.namespace</em> value from the <em>resource_definition</em> will override this option.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -334,6 +377,26 @@ Parameters
                        <div>The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>previous</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>If <code>true</code>, print the logs for the previous instance of the container in a pod if it exists.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -435,6 +498,22 @@ Parameters
                        <div>A relative time in seconds before the current time from which to show logs.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>tail_lines</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">integer</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.4.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>A number of lines from the end of the logs to retrieve.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -519,8 +598,16 @@ Examples
        kind: DeploymentConfig
        namespace: testing
        name: example
+        tail_lines: 100
      register: log

+    # This will get the logs from all containers in Pod
+    - name: Get the logs from all containers in pod
+      kubernetes.core.k8s_log:
+        namespace: testing
+        name: some-pod
+        all_containers: true
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_lookup.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_lookup.rst
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the local Ansible controller node that executes this lookup.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -438,106 +438,28 @@ Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late

    <table border=0 cellpadding=0 class="documentation-table">
        <tr>
-            <th colspan="2">Key</th>
+            <th colspan="1">Key</th>
            <th>Returned</th>
            <th width="100%">Description</th>
        </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="2">
+                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
                    <b>_list</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
+                      <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                       / <span style="color: purple">elements=dictionary</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td></td>
                <td>
                            <div>One ore more object definitions returned from the API.</div>
                    <br/>
+                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
+                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">[{&#x27;kind&#x27;: &#x27;ConfigMap&#x27;, &#x27;apiVersion&#x27;: &#x27;v1&#x27;, &#x27;metadata&#x27;: {&#x27;creationTimestamp&#x27;: &#x27;2022-03-04T13:59:49Z&#x27;, &#x27;name&#x27;: &#x27;my-config-map&#x27;, &#x27;namespace&#x27;: &#x27;default&#x27;, &#x27;resourceVersion&#x27;: &#x27;418&#x27;, &#x27;uid&#x27;: &#x27;5714b011-d090-4eac-8272-a0ea82ec0abd&#x27;}, &#x27;data&#x27;: {&#x27;key1&#x27;: &#x27;val1&#x27;}}]</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
-                                <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>api_version</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>The versioned schema of this representation of an object.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>kind</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Represents the REST resource this object represents.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>metadata</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Standard object metadata. Includes name, namespace, annotations, labels, etc.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>spec</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Specific attributes of the object. Will vary based on the <em>api_version</em> and <em>kind</em>.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>status</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Current status details for the object.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-
    </table>
    <br/><br/>

@@ -549,8 +471,8 @@ Status
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~

- Chris Houseknecht <@chouseknecht>
- Fabian von Feilitzsch <@fabianvf>
+- Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
+- Fabian von Feilitzsch (@fabianvf)


 .. hint::
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_module.rst
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11
 - jsonpatch

@@ -208,6 +208,30 @@ Parameters
                        <div>This has no effect on the validation step which is controlled by the <code>validate.fail_on_error</code> parameter.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="3">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>delete_all</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.5.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>When this option is set to <em>true</em> and <em>state=absent</em>, module will delete all resources of the specified resource type in the requested namespace.</div>
+                        <div>Ignored when <code>state</code> is not set to <em>absent</em> or when one of (src), <code>name</code>  or <code>resource_definition</code> is provided.</div>
+                        <div>Parameter <code>kind</code> is required to use this option.</div>
+                        <div>This parameter can be used with <code>label_selectors</code> to restrict the resources to be deleted.</div>
+                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: all</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="3">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -336,6 +360,45 @@ Parameters
                        <div>If set to <code>yes</code>, and <em>state</em> is <code>present</code>, an existing object will be replaced.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="3">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>generate_name</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Use to specify the basis of an object name and random characters will be added automatically on server to generate a unique name.</div>
+                        <div>This option is ignored when <em>state</em> is not set to <code>present</code> or when <em>apply</em> is set to <code>yes</code>.</div>
+                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, the <em>metadata.generateName</em> value from the <em>resource_definition</em> will override this option.</div>
+                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, and contains <em>metadata.name</em>, this option is ignored.</div>
+                        <div>mutually exclusive with <code>name</code>.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="3">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>hidden_fields</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">list</span>
+                         / <span style="color: purple">elements=string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.5.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Hide fields matching this option in the result</div>
+                        <div>An example might be <code>hidden_fields=[metadata.managedFields]</code></div>
+                        <div>Only field definitions that don&#x27;t reference list items are supported (so V(spec.containers[0]) would not work)</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="3">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -417,6 +480,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -499,6 +563,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, the <em>metadata.namespace</em> value from the <em>resource_definition</em> will override this option.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="3">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="3">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -640,6 +723,63 @@ Parameters
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: definition, inline</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="3">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>server_side_apply</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">dictionary</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>When this option is set, apply runs in the server instead of the client.</div>
+                        <div>Ignored if <code>apply</code> is not set or is set to False.</div>
+                        <div>This option requires &quot;kubernetes &gt;= 19.15.0&quot;.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+                                <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>field_manager</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                         / <span style="color: red">required</span>
+                    </div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Name of the manager used to track field ownership.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>force_conflicts</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
+                    </div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
+                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
+                                    <li>yes</li>
+                        </ul>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>A conflict is a special status error that occurs when an Server Side Apply operation tries to change a field, which another user also claims to manage.</div>
+                        <div>When set to True, server-side apply will force the changes against conflicts.</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+
            <tr>
                <td colspan="3">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -654,7 +794,8 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Provide a path to a file containing a valid YAML definition of an object or objects to be created or updated. Mutually exclusive with <em>resource_definition</em>. NOTE: <em>kind</em>, <em>api_version</em>, <em>name</em>, and <em>namespace</em> will be overwritten by corresponding values found in the configuration read in from the <em>src</em> file.</div>
                        <div>Reads from the local file system. To read from the Ansible controller&#x27;s file system, including vaulted files, use the file lookup plugin or template lookup plugin, combined with the from_yaml filter, and pass the result to <em>resource_definition</em>. See Examples below.</div>
-                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>template</em> in case of <span class='module'>k8s</span> module.</div>
+                        <div>The URL to manifest files that can be used to create the resource. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
+                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>template</em> in case of <span class='module'>kubernetes.core.k8s</span> module.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -1016,6 +1157,14 @@ Examples
        state: present
        definition: "{{ lookup('file', '/testing/deployment.yml') | from_yaml }}"

+    - name: >-
+        (Alternative) Read definition file from the Ansible controller file system.
+        In this case, the definition file contains multiple YAML documents, separated by ---.
+        If the definition file has been encrypted with Ansible Vault it will automatically be decrypted.
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        state: present
+        definition: "{{ lookup('file', '/testing/deployment.yml') | from_yaml_all }}"
+
    - name: Read definition template file from the Ansible controller file system
      kubernetes.core.k8s:
        state: present
@@ -1033,10 +1182,10 @@ Examples
      kubernetes.core.k8s:
        state: present
        template:
-          - path: '/testing/deployment_one.j2'
-          - path: '/testing/deployment_two.j2'
-            variable_start_string: '[['
-            variable_end_string: ']]'
+        - path: '/testing/deployment_one.j2'
+        - path: '/testing/deployment_two.j2'
+          variable_start_string: '[['
+          variable_end_string: ']]'

    - name: fail on validation errors
      kubernetes.core.k8s:
@@ -1093,6 +1242,41 @@ Examples
            labels:
              support: patch

+    # Create object using generateName
+    - name: create resource using name generated by the server
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        state: present
+        generate_name: pod-
+        definition:
+          apiVersion: v1
+          kind: Pod
+          spec:
+            containers:
+            - name: py
+              image: python:3.7-alpine
+              imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+
+    # Server side apply
+    - name: Create configmap using server side apply
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        namespace: testing
+        definition:
+          apiVersion: v1
+          kind: ConfigMap
+          metadata:
+            name: my-configmap
+        apply: yes
+        server_side_apply:
+          field_manager: ansible
+
+    # Delete all Deployment from specified namespace
+    - name: Delete all Deployment from specified namespace
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        api_version: apps/v1
+        namespace: testing
+        kind: Deployment
+        delete_all: true
+


 Return Values
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_rollback_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_rollback_module.rst
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Parameters
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>List of field selectors to use to filter results.</div>
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -252,6 +254,7 @@ Parameters
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>List of label selectors to use to filter results.</div>
@@ -293,6 +296,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, the <em>metadata.namespace</em> value from the <em>resource_definition</em> will override this option.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_scale_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_scale_module.rst
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 - PyYAML >= 3.11


@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -270,6 +271,7 @@ Parameters
                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.0.0</div>
                </td>
                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">[]</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>List of label selectors to use to filter results.</div>
@@ -311,6 +313,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>If <em>resource definition</em> is provided, the <em>metadata.namespace</em> value from the <em>resource_definition</em> will override this option.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -497,7 +518,8 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Provide a path to a file containing a valid YAML definition of an object or objects to be created or updated. Mutually exclusive with <em>resource_definition</em>. NOTE: <em>kind</em>, <em>api_version</em>, <em>name</em>, and <em>namespace</em> will be overwritten by corresponding values found in the configuration read in from the <em>src</em> file.</div>
                        <div>Reads from the local file system. To read from the Ansible controller&#x27;s file system, including vaulted files, use the file lookup plugin or template lookup plugin, combined with the from_yaml filter, and pass the result to <em>resource_definition</em>. See Examples below.</div>
-                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>template</em> in case of <span class='module'>k8s</span> module.</div>
+                        <div>The URL to manifest files that can be used to create the resource. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
+                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>template</em> in case of <span class='module'>kubernetes.core.k8s</span> module.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_service_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_service_module.rst
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0


 Parameters
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
@@ -280,6 +281,25 @@ Parameters
                        <div>Use to specify a Service object namespace.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="2">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>no_proxy</b>
+                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
+                    <div style="font-size: small">
+                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small; color: darkgreen">added in 2.3.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn&#x27;t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).</div>
+                        <div>This feature requires kubernetes&gt;=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.</div>
+                        <div>example value is &quot;localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16&quot;</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -468,7 +488,8 @@ Parameters
                <td>
                        <div>Provide a path to a file containing a valid YAML definition of an object or objects to be created or updated. Mutually exclusive with <em>resource_definition</em>. NOTE: <em>kind</em>, <em>api_version</em>, <em>name</em>, and <em>namespace</em> will be overwritten by corresponding values found in the configuration read in from the <em>src</em> file.</div>
                        <div>Reads from the local file system. To read from the Ansible controller&#x27;s file system, including vaulted files, use the file lookup plugin or template lookup plugin, combined with the from_yaml filter, and pass the result to <em>resource_definition</em>. See Examples below.</div>
-                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>template</em> in case of <span class='module'>k8s</span> module.</div>
+                        <div>The URL to manifest files that can be used to create the resource. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
+                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>template</em> in case of <span class='module'>kubernetes.core.k8s</span> module.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_taint_module.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.k8s_taint_module.rst
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Requirements
 ------------
 The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 3.6
- kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+- python >= 3.9
+- kubernetes >= 24.2.0


 Parameters
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ Parameters
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from <em>~/.kube/config</em>. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.</div>
+                        <div>Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator &#x27;;&#x27; for Windows platform or &#x27;:&#x27; for others platforms.</div>
                        <div>The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version &gt;= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.kubectl_connection.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.kubectl_connection.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ kubernetes.core.kubectl
 **Execute tasks in pods running on Kubernetes.**


-Version added: 1.2.1

 .. contents::
   :local:
@@ -209,6 +208,7 @@ Parameters
                    </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Path to a kubectl config file. Defaults to <em>~/.kube/config</em></div>
+                        <div>The configuration can be provided as dictionary. Added in version 2.4.0.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Status
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~

- xuxinkun
+- xuxinkun (@xuxinkun)


 .. hint::
--- a/docs/kubernetes.core.kustomize_lookup.rst
+++ b/docs/kubernetes.core.kustomize_lookup.rst
@@ -133,106 +133,27 @@ Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late

    <table border=0 cellpadding=0 class="documentation-table">
        <tr>
-            <th colspan="2">Key</th>
+            <th colspan="1">Key</th>
            <th>Returned</th>
            <th width="100%">Description</th>
        </tr>
            <tr>
-                <td colspan="2">
+                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
                    <b>_list</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
+                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td></td>
                <td>
-                            <div>One ore more object definitions returned from the tool execution.</div>
+                            <div>YAML string for the object definitions returned from the tool execution.</div>
                    <br/>
+                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
+                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">{&#x27;kind&#x27;: &#x27;ConfigMap&#x27;, &#x27;apiVersion&#x27;: &#x27;v1&#x27;, &#x27;metadata&#x27;: {&#x27;name&#x27;: &#x27;my-config-map&#x27;, &#x27;namespace&#x27;: &#x27;default&#x27;}, &#x27;data&#x27;: {&#x27;key1&#x27;: &#x27;val1&#x27;}}</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
-                                <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>api_version</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>The versioned schema of this representation of an object.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>kind</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Represents the REST resource this object represents.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>metadata</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Standard object metadata. Includes name, namespace, annotations, labels, etc.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>spec</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Specific attributes of the object. Will vary based on the <em>api_version</em> and <em>kind</em>.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                    <td class="elbow-placeholder">&nbsp;</td>
-                <td colspan="1">
-                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
-                    <b>status</b>
-                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
-                    <div style="font-size: small">
-                      <span style="color: purple">complex</span>
-                    </div>
-                </td>
-                <td>success</td>
-                <td>
-                            <div>Current status details for the object.</div>
-                    <br/>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-
    </table>
    <br/><br/>

@@ -244,7 +165,7 @@ Status
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~

- Aubin Bikouo <@abikouo>
+- Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)


 .. hint::
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ tags:
  - openshift
  - okd
  - cluster
-version: 2.4.0
+version: 3.0.0
 build_ignore:
  - .DS_Store
  - "*.tar.gz"
--- a/plugins/module_utils/common.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/common.py
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ class K8sAnsibleMixin(object):
        if merge_type == "json":
            self.module.deprecate(
                msg="json as a merge_type value is deprecated. Please use the k8s_json_patch module instead.",
-                version="3.0.0",
+                version="4.0.0",
                collection_name="kubernetes.core",
            )
        try:
--- a/plugins/module_utils/k8s/service.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/k8s/service.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class K8sService:
        if merge_type == "json":
            self.module.deprecate(
                msg="json as a merge_type value is deprecated. Please use the k8s_json_patch module instead.",
-                version="3.0.0",
+                version="4.0.0",
                collection_name="kubernetes.core",
            )
        try: