Prepare release 5.0.0 (#733)

[PR #741/fb80d973 backport][stable-5] Doc: add example of using kubectl connection plugin

This is a backport of PR #741 as merged into main (fb80d97).
SUMMARY
Currently documentation for collection don't include any examples of using kubenrenes.core.kubectl connection plugin and it's hard to start using that plugin.
ISSUE TYPE

Docs Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME
kubenrenes.core.kubectl connection plugin
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This PR was inspired by #288 and based on feedback on that PR and my own experience. Thanks @tpo for his try and @geerlingguy for his Ansible for DevOps book

Reviewed-by: Mike Graves <mgraves@redhat.com>

.ansible-lint

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+profile: production
+
+exclude_paths:
+  - tests/integration
+  - tests/sanity

.ansible-lint-ignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# no-changed-when is not requried for examples
+plugins/connection/kubectl.py no-changed-when

.github/workflows/changelog.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+name: Changelog
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - reopened
+      - labeled
+      - unlabeled
+      - synchronize
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+
+jobs:
+  changelog:
+    uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/workflows/changelog.yml@main

.github/workflows/galaxy-import.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+name: galaxy-import
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.head_ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+
+jobs:
+  galaxy_importer:
+    uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/workflows/galaxy_importer.yml@main

.github/workflows/integration-tests.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+name: Integration tests
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - reopened
+      - labeled
+      - unlabeled
+      - synchronize
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+
+jobs:
+  splitter:
+    env:
+      source_dir: "./source"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      test_targets: ${{ steps.splitter.outputs.test_targets }}
+      test_targets_json: ${{ steps.splitter.outputs.test_targets_json }}
+      test_jobs: ${{ steps.splitter.outputs.test_jobs }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout the collection repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.source_dir }}
+          fetch-depth: "0"
+
+      - name: list changes for pull request
+        id: splitter
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/ansible_test_splitter@main
+        with:
+          collections_to_test: ${{ env.source_dir }}
+          total_jobs: 8
+
+      - name: Display splitter output
+        run: |
+          echo "test_targets=${{ steps.splitter.outputs.test_targets }}"
+          echo "test_targets_json=${{ steps.splitter.outputs.test_targets_json }}"
+          echo "test_jobs=${{ steps.splitter.outputs.test_jobs }}"
+        shell: bash
+  integration:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    needs:
+      - splitter
+    if: ${{ needs.splitter.outputs.test_targets != '' }}
+    env:
+      source: "./source"
+      cloud_common: "./cloudcommon"
+      ansible_posix: "./ansible_posix"
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        ansible-version:
+          - milestone
+        python-version:
+          - "3.12"
+        enable-turbo-mode:
+          - true
+          - false
+        workflow-id: ${{ fromJson(needs.splitter.outputs.test_jobs) }}
+    name: "integration-py${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.ansible-version }}-${{ matrix.workflow-id }}"
+    steps:
+      - name: Read target
+        id: read-targets
+        run: |
+          import json, os
+          with open(os.environ.get('GITHUB_OUTPUT'), "a", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+              fh.write(f'ansible_test_targets={json.loads(os.environ.get("ALL_TEST_TARGETS")).get(os.environ.get("WORKFLOW_ID"))}\n')
+        shell: python
+        env:
+          ALL_TEST_TARGETS: ${{ needs.splitter.outputs.test_targets_json }}
+          WORKFLOW_ID: ${{ matrix.workflow-id }}
+
+      - name: Display ansible test targets
+        run: |
+          echo "ansible_test_targets -> ${{ steps.read-targets.outputs.ansible_test_targets }}"
+
+      - name: Checkout kubernetes.core repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.source }}
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      # install ansible
+      - name: Install ansible-core (${{ matrix.ansible-version }})
+        run: >-
+          python3 -m pip install
+          https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/${{ matrix.ansible-version }}.tar.gz
+          --disable-pip-version-check
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Build and install collection
+        id: install-src
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/build_install_collection@main
+        with:
+          install_python_dependencies: true
+          source_path: ${{ env.source }}
+
+      - name: checkout ansible-collections/cloud.common
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/checkout_dependency@main
+        with:
+          repository: ansible-collections/cloud.common
+          path: ${{ env.cloud_common }}
+          ref: main
+
+      - name: checkout ansible-collections/ansible.posix
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/checkout_dependency@main
+        with:
+          repository: ansible-collections/ansible.posix
+          path: ${{ env.ansible_posix }}
+          ref: main
+
+      - name: install cloud.common collection
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/build_install_collection@main
+        with:
+          install_python_dependencies: true
+          source_path: ${{ env.cloud_common }}
+
+      - name: install ansible.posix collection
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/build_install_collection@main
+        with:
+          install_python_dependencies: true
+          source_path: ${{ env.ansible_posix }}
+
+      - name: create kubernetes cluster
+        uses: helm/kind-action@v1.8.0
+        with:
+          node_image: "kindest/node:v1.29.2"
+
+      - name: Run integration tests
+        uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/actions/ansible_test_integration@main
+        with:
+          collection_path: ${{ steps.install-src.outputs.collection_path }}
+          python_version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          ansible_version: ${{ matrix.ansible-version }}
+          ansible_test_targets: ${{ steps.read-targets.outputs.ansible_test_targets }}
+          ansible_test_environment: |
+            ENABLE_TURBO_MODE=${{ matrix.enable-turbo-mode }}

.github/workflows/linters.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+name: Linters
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  linters:
+    uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/workflows/tox-linters.yml@main
+  ansible-lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Run ansible-lint
+        uses: ansible/ansible-lint@v24.2.3

.github/workflows/sanity-tests.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+name: Sanity tests
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+
+jobs:
+  sanity:
+    uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/workflows/sanity.yml@main

.github/workflows/unit-tests.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+name: Unit tests
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+
+jobs:
+  unit-source:
+    uses: ansible-network/github_actions/.github/workflows/unit_source.yml@main

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,130 @@ Kubernetes Collection Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
+v5.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This major release drops support for ``ansible-core<2.15``.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- inventory/k8s.py - Defer removal of k8s inventory plugin to version 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/734).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Remove support for ``ansible-core<2.15`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/737).
+
+v4.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This major release brings several bug fixes. We have also removed support for ``ansible-core<2.15`` and deprecated functions and class from ``module_utils/common.py``.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- inventory/k8s.py - Defer removal of k8s inventory plugin to version 5.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/723).
+- k8s - The module and K8sService were changed so warnings returned by the K8S API are now displayed to the user.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- k8s - Support for ``merge_type=json`` has been removed in version 4.0.0. Please use ``kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/722).
+- k8s_exec - the previously deprecated ``result.return_code`` return value has been removed, consider using ``result.rc`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+- module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``K8sAnsibleMixin`` class has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+- module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``configuration_digest()`` function has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+- module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``get_api_client()`` function has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+- module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``unique_string()`` function has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Resolve Collections util resource discovery fails when complex subresources present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/676).
+- align `helmdiff_check()` function commandline rendering with the `deploy()` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+- avoid unsafe conditions in integration tests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/665).
+- helm - use ``reuse-values`` when running ``helm diff`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/680).
+- integrations test helm_kubeconfig - set helm version to v3.10.3 to avoid incompatability with new bitnami charts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+
+v3.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This release comes with some bugfixes and documentation updates. It also adds new features to the kubectl connection plugin and the kustomize lookup plugin.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- kubectl - added support of local enviroment variable that will be used for kubectl and may be requried for establishing connections ifself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/702)
+- kustomize - new parameter added to --enable-helm (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/568)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- helm - expand kubeconfig path with user's home directory for consistency with k8s
+- k8s_json_patch - rename action symlink to ensure k8s action plugin is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/652).
+
+v3.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This release fixes issue with resources discovery when complex subresources are present, and fixes issues with `reuse-values` parameter for helm module.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Resolve Collections util resource discovery fails when complex subresources present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/676).
+- align `helmdiff_check()` function commandline rendering with the `deploy()` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+- helm - use ``reuse-values`` when running ``helm diff`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/680).
+- integrations test helm_kubeconfig - set helm version to v3.10.3 to avoid incompatability with new bitnami charts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+
+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 +220,7 @@ 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).

Makefile

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Also needs to be updated in galaxy.yml
-VERSION = 2.4.0
+VERSION = 5.0.0
 
 TEST_ARGS ?= ""
 PYTHON_VERSION ?= `python -c 'import platform; print(".".join(platform.python_version_tuple()[0:2]))'`

README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the manage
 <!--start requires_ansible-->
 ## Ansible version compatibility
 
-This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: **>=2.9.17**.
+This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: **>=2.15.0**.
 
 For collections that support Ansible 2.9, please ensure you update your `network_os` to use the
 fully qualified collection name (for example, `cisco.ios.ios`).
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.
 
 ## Python Support
 
-* Collection supports 3.6+
+* Collection supports 3.9+
 
 Note: Python2 is deprecated from [1st January 2020](https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/). Please switch to Python3.
 
 ## Kubernetes Version Support
 
-This collection supports Kubernetes versions >=1.19.
+This collection supports Kubernetes versions >= 1.24.
 
 ## Included content
 
@@ -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: 5.0.0
 ```
 
 ### Installing the Kubernetes Python Library

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -762,3 +762,150 @@ 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'
+  3.0.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Resolve Collections util resource discovery fails when complex subresources
+        present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/676).
+      - align `helmdiff_check()` function commandline rendering with the `deploy()`
+        function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+      - helm - use ``reuse-values`` when running ``helm diff`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/680).
+      - integrations test helm_kubeconfig - set helm version to v3.10.3 to avoid incompatability
+        with new bitnami charts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+      release_summary: This release fixes issue with resources discovery when complex
+        subresources are present, and fixes issues with `reuse-values` parameter for
+        helm module.
+    fragments:
+    - 20240117-fix-helm-diff-cmd-line-rendering.yml
+    - 20240222-Collections-util-resource-discovery-fails-when-complex-subresources-present.yml
+    - 20240228-fix-helm-diff-with-reuse-values.yml
+    - 3.0.1.yml
+    release_date: '2024-03-01'
+  3.1.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - helm - expand kubeconfig path with user's home directory for consistency with
+        k8s
+      - k8s_json_patch - rename action symlink to ensure k8s action plugin is used
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/652).
+      minor_changes:
+      - kubectl - added support of local enviroment variable that will be used for
+        kubectl and may be requried for establishing connections ifself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/702)
+      - kustomize - new parameter added to --enable-helm (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/568)
+      release_summary: This release comes with some bugfixes and documentation updates.
+        It also adds new features to the kubectl connection plugin and the kustomize
+        lookup plugin.
+    fragments:
+    - 20240426-add-support-of-kubectl-local-env-vars-for-connection-plugin.yml
+    - 3.1.0.yml
+    - 592-kustomize-helm-support.yml
+    - 652-fix-json-patch-action.yml
+    - 654-helm-expand-user.yml
+    release_date: '2024-05-16'
+  4.0.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Resolve Collections util resource discovery fails when complex subresources
+        present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/676).
+      - align `helmdiff_check()` function commandline rendering with the `deploy()`
+        function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+      - avoid unsafe conditions in integration tests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/665).
+      - helm - use ``reuse-values`` when running ``helm diff`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/680).
+      - integrations test helm_kubeconfig - set helm version to v3.10.3 to avoid incompatability
+        with new bitnami charts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/670).
+      minor_changes:
+      - inventory/k8s.py - Defer removal of k8s inventory plugin to version 5.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/723).
+      - k8s - The module and K8sService were changed so warnings returned by the K8S
+        API are now displayed to the user.
+      release_summary: This major release brings several bug fixes. We have also removed
+        support for ``ansible-core<2.15`` and deprecated functions and class from
+        ``module_utils/common.py``.
+      removed_features:
+      - k8s - Support for ``merge_type=json`` has been removed in version 4.0.0. Please
+        use ``kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/722).
+      - k8s_exec - the previously deprecated ``result.return_code`` return value has
+        been removed, consider using ``result.rc`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+      - module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``K8sAnsibleMixin`` class
+        has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+      - module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``configuration_digest()``
+        function has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+      - module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``get_api_client()`` function
+        has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+      - module_utils/common.py - the previously deprecated ``unique_string()`` function
+        has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/726).
+    fragments:
+    - 20231206-fix-unsafe-condition-in-integration.yml
+    - 20240117-fix-helm-diff-cmd-line-rendering.yml
+    - 20240222-Collections-util-resource-discovery-fails-when-complex-subresources-present.yml
+    - 20240228-fix-helm-diff-with-reuse-values.yml
+    - 20240423-k8s-display-warnings-to-users.yml
+    - 4.0.0.yaml
+    - inventory-update_removal_date.yml
+    - k8s-merge_type-removed.yml
+    - module_utils-common-remove-deprecated-functions-and-class.yaml
+    release_date: '2024-05-24'
+  5.0.0:
+    changes:
+      breaking_changes:
+      - Remove support for ``ansible-core<2.15`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/737).
+      minor_changes:
+      - inventory/k8s.py - Defer removal of k8s inventory plugin to version 6.0.0
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/734).
+      release_summary: This major release drops support for ``ansible-core<2.15``.
+    fragments:
+    - 20240530-ansible-core-support-update.yaml
+    - 20240530-defer-removal-and-ansible-core-support-update.yaml
+    - 5.0.0.yml
+    release_date: '2024-05-31'

changelogs/fragments/20240601-doc-example-of-using-kubectl.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - connection/kubectl.py - Added an example of using the kubectl connection plugin to the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/741).

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">

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

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>

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

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/>
 

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

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>

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

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>
@@ -561,7 +602,7 @@ Examples
         state: drain
         name: foo
         delete_options:
-            terminate_grace_period: 900
+          terminate_grace_period: 900
 
     - name: Mark node "foo" as schedulable.
       kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
@@ -573,6 +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

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

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>

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 6.0.0.
+
+: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 6.0.0. *[deprecated]*
+- For more information see `DEPRECATED`_.
+
+
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~
 
-- Chris Houseknecht <@chouseknecht>
-- Fabian von Feilitzsch <@fabianvf>
+- Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
+- Fabian von Feilitzsch (@fabianvf)
 
 
 .. hint::

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
 
 

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

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::

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
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Parameters
                 <td>
                         <div><code>apply</code> compares the desired resource definition with the previously supplied resource definition, ignoring properties that are automatically generated</div>
                         <div><code>apply</code> works better with Services than &#x27;force=yes&#x27;</div>
-                        <div>mutually exclusive with <code>merge_type</code></div>
+                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <code>merge_type</code>.</div>
                 </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
@@ -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>
@@ -449,18 +513,17 @@ Parameters
                 </td>
                 <td>
                         <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
-                                    <li>json</li>
                                     <li>merge</li>
                                     <li>strategic-merge</li>
                         </ul>
                 </td>
                 <td>
                         <div>Whether to override the default patch merge approach with a specific type. By default, the strategic merge will typically be used.</div>
-                        <div>For example, Custom Resource Definitions typically aren&#x27;t updatable by the usual strategic merge. You may want to use <code>merge</code> if you see &quot;strategic merge patch format is not supported&quot;</div>
+                        <div>For example, Custom Resource Definitions typically aren&#x27;t updatable by the usual strategic merge. You may want to use <code>merge</code> if you see &quot;strategic merge patch format is not supported&quot;.</div>
                         <div>See <a href='https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/#use-a-json-merge-patch-to-update-a-deployment'>https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/#use-a-json-merge-patch-to-update-a-deployment</a></div>
                         <div>If more than one <code>merge_type</code> is given, the merge_types will be tried in order. This defaults to <code>[&#x27;strategic-merge&#x27;, &#x27;merge&#x27;]</code>, which is ideal for using the same parameters on resource kinds that combine Custom Resources and built-in resources.</div>
-                        <div>mutually exclusive with <code>apply</code></div>
-                        <div><em>merge_type=json</em> is deprecated and will be removed in version 3.0.0. Please use <span class='module'>kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch</span> instead.</div>
+                        <div>Mutually exclusive with <code>apply</code>.</div>
+                        <div><em>merge_type=json</em> has been removed in version 4.0.0. Please use <span class='module'>kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch</span> instead.</div>
                 </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
@@ -499,6 +562,25 @@ 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 +722,63 @@ 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 +793,8 @@ 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 +1156,14 @@ 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 +1181,10 @@ 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 +1241,41 @@ 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

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>

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>

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>

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>

docs/kubernetes.core.kubectl_connection.rst

@@ -208,6 +208,28 @@ 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>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>kubectl_local_env_vars</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 3.1.0</div>
+                </td>
+                <td>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">{}</div>
+                </td>
+                    <td>
+                                <div>var: ansible_kubectl_local_env_vars</div>
+                    </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Local enviromantal variable to be passed locally to the kubectl command line.</div>
+                        <div>Please be aware that this passes information directly on the command line and it could expose sensitive data.</div>
                 </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
@@ -343,6 +365,82 @@ Parameters
 
 
 
+Examples
+--------
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    - name: Run a command in a pod using local kubectl with kubeconfig file ~/.kube/config
+      hosts: localhost
+      gather_facts: no
+      vars:
+        ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+        ansible_kubectl_namespace: my-namespace
+        ansible_kubectl_pod: my-pod
+        ansible_kubectl_container: my-container
+      tasks:
+        # be aware that the command is executed as the user that started the container
+        # and requires python to be installed in the image
+        - name: Run a command in a pod
+          ansible.builtin.command: echo "Hello, World!"
+
+    - name: Run a command in a pod using local kubectl with inventory variables
+      # Example inventory:
+      # k8s:
+      #   hosts:
+      #     foo.example.com:
+      #       ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+      #       ansible_kubectl_kubeconfig: /root/.kube/foo.example.com.config
+      #       ansible_kubectl_pod: my-foo-pod
+      #       ansible_kubectl_container: my-foo-container
+      #       ansible_kubectl_namespace: my-foo-namespace
+      #     bar.example.com:
+      #       ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+      #       ansible_kubectl_kubeconfig: /root/.kube/bar.example.com.config
+      #       ansible_kubectl_pod: my-bar-pod
+      #       ansible_kubectl_container: my-bar-container
+      #       ansible_kubectl_namespace: my-bar-namespace
+      hosts: k8s
+      gather_facts: no
+      tasks:
+        # be aware that the command is executed as the user that started the container
+        # and requires python to be installed in the image
+        - name: Run a command in a pod
+          ansible.builtin.command: echo "Hello, World!"
+
+    - name: Run a command in a pod using dynamic inventory
+      hosts: localhost
+      gather_facts: no
+      vars:
+        kubeconfig: /root/.kube/config
+        namespace: my-namespace
+        my_app: my-app
+      tasks:
+        - name: Get My App pod info based on label
+          kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
+            kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig }}"
+            namespace: "{{ namespace }}"
+            kind: Pod
+            label_selectors: app.kubernetes.io/name = "{{ my_app }}"
+          register: my_app_pod
+
+        - name: Get My App pod name
+          ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+            my_app_pod_name: "{{ my_app_pod.resources[0].metadata.name }}"
+
+        - name: Add My App pod to inventory
+          ansible.builtin.add_host:
+            name: "{{ my_app_pod_name }}"
+            ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+            ansible_kubectl_kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig }}"
+            ansible_kubectl_pod: "{{ my_app_pod_name }}"
+            ansible_kubectl_namespace: "{{ namespace }}"
+
+        - name: Run a command in My App pod
+          # be aware that the command is executed as the user that started the container
+          # and requires python to be installed in the image
+          ansible.builtin.command: echo "Hello, World!"
+          delegate_to: "{{ my_app_pod_name }}"
 
 
 
@@ -354,7 +452,7 @@ Status
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~
 
-- xuxinkun
+- xuxinkun (@xuxinkun)
 
 
 .. hint::

docs/kubernetes.core.kustomize_lookup.rst

@@ -77,6 +77,24 @@ Parameters
                         <div>If omitted, &#x27;.&#x27; is assumed.</div>
                 </td>
             </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td colspan="1">
+                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
+                    <b>enable_helm</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>
+                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">"False"</div>
+                </td>
+                    <td>
+                    </td>
+                <td>
+                        <div>Enable the helm chart inflation generator</div>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
             <tr>
                 <td colspan="1">
                     <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
@@ -112,17 +130,21 @@ Examples
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
     - name: Run lookup using kustomize
-      set_fact:
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
         resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', binary_path='/path/to/kustomize') }}"
 
     - name: Run lookup using kubectl kustomize
-      set_fact:
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
         resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', binary_path='/path/to/kubectl') }}"
 
     - name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output
-      k8s:
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
         definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='/path/to/kustomization') }}"
 
+    - name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output with `--enable-helm` set
+      kubernetes.core.k8s:
+        definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='/path/to/kustomization', enable_helm=True) }}"
+
 
 
 Return Values
@@ -133,106 +155,27 @@ 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 +187,7 @@ Status
 Authors
 ~~~~~~~
 
-- Aubin Bikouo <@abikouo>
+- Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)
 
 
 .. hint::

galaxy.yml

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ authors:
   - mmazur (https://github.com/mmazur)
   - jamescassell (https://github.com/jamescassell)
 description: Kubernetes Collection for Ansible.
-documentation: ''
-homepage: ''
+documentation: ""
+homepage: ""
 issues: https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues
 license_file: LICENSE
 namespace: kubernetes
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ tags:
   - openshift
   - okd
   - cluster
-version: 2.4.0
+version: 5.0.0
 build_ignore:
   - .DS_Store
-  - '*.tar.gz'
+  - "*.tar.gz"

meta/runtime.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-requires_ansible: '>=2.9.17'
+requires_ansible: '>=2.15.0'
 
 action_groups:
   helm:
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ plugin_routing:
   inventory:
     openshift:
       redirect: community.okd.openshift
+    k8s:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 6.0.0
+        warning_text: >-
+          The k8s inventory plugin has been deprecated and
+          will be removed in release 6.0.0.
   modules:
     k8s_auth:
       redirect: community.okd.k8s_auth

plugins/action/k8s_info.py

@@ -8,21 +8,21 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 import copy
-import traceback
 import os
-from contextlib import contextmanager
 import platform
+import traceback
+from contextlib import contextmanager
 
 from ansible.config.manager import ensure_type
 from ansible.errors import (
-    AnsibleError,
-    AnsibleFileNotFound,
     AnsibleAction,
     AnsibleActionFail,
+    AnsibleError,
+    AnsibleFileNotFound,
 )
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types, iteritems
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, string_types
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 
 
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ ENV_KUBECONFIG_PATH_SEPARATOR = ";" if platform.system() == "Windows" else ":"
 
 
 class ActionModule(ActionBase):
-
     TRANSFERS_FILES = True
     DEFAULT_NEWLINE_SEQUENCE = "\n"
 

plugins/connection/kubectl.py

@@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
           - name: ansible_kubectl_extra_args
         env:
           - name: K8S_AUTH_EXTRA_ARGS
+      kubectl_local_env_vars:
+        description:
+          - Local enviromantal variable to be passed locally to the kubectl command line.
+          - Please be aware that this passes information directly on the command line and it could expose sensitive data.
+        default: {}
+        type: dict
+        version_added: 3.1.0
+        vars:
+          - name: ansible_kubectl_local_env_vars
       kubectl_kubeconfig:
         description:
           - Path to a kubectl config file. Defaults to I(~/.kube/config)
@@ -172,18 +181,93 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
         aliases: [ kubectl_verify_ssl ]
 """
 
+EXAMPLES = r"""
+
+- name: Run a command in a pod using local kubectl with kubeconfig file ~/.kube/config
+  hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: no
+  vars:
+    ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+    ansible_kubectl_namespace: my-namespace
+    ansible_kubectl_pod: my-pod
+    ansible_kubectl_container: my-container
+  tasks:
+    # be aware that the command is executed as the user that started the container
+    # and requires python to be installed in the image
+    - name: Run a command in a pod
+      ansible.builtin.command: echo "Hello, World!"
+
+- name: Run a command in a pod using local kubectl with inventory variables
+  # Example inventory:
+  # k8s:
+  #   hosts:
+  #     foo.example.com:
+  #       ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+  #       ansible_kubectl_kubeconfig: /root/.kube/foo.example.com.config
+  #       ansible_kubectl_pod: my-foo-pod
+  #       ansible_kubectl_container: my-foo-container
+  #       ansible_kubectl_namespace: my-foo-namespace
+  #     bar.example.com:
+  #       ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+  #       ansible_kubectl_kubeconfig: /root/.kube/bar.example.com.config
+  #       ansible_kubectl_pod: my-bar-pod
+  #       ansible_kubectl_container: my-bar-container
+  #       ansible_kubectl_namespace: my-bar-namespace
+  hosts: k8s
+  gather_facts: no
+  tasks:
+    # be aware that the command is executed as the user that started the container
+    # and requires python to be installed in the image
+    - name: Run a command in a pod
+      ansible.builtin.command: echo "Hello, World!"
+
+- name: Run a command in a pod using dynamic inventory
+  hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: no
+  vars:
+    kubeconfig: /root/.kube/config
+    namespace: my-namespace
+    my_app: my-app
+  tasks:
+    - name: Get My App pod info based on label
+      kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
+        kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig }}"
+        namespace: "{{ namespace }}"
+        kind: Pod
+        label_selectors: app.kubernetes.io/name = "{{ my_app }}"
+      register: my_app_pod
+
+    - name: Get My App pod name
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        my_app_pod_name: "{{ my_app_pod.resources[0].metadata.name }}"
+
+    - name: Add My App pod to inventory
+      ansible.builtin.add_host:
+        name: "{{ my_app_pod_name }}"
+        ansible_connection: kubernetes.core.kubectl
+        ansible_kubectl_kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig }}"
+        ansible_kubectl_pod: "{{ my_app_pod_name }}"
+        ansible_kubectl_namespace: "{{ namespace }}"
+
+    - name: Run a command in My App pod
+      # be aware that the command is executed as the user that started the container
+      # and requires python to be installed in the image
+      ansible.builtin.command: echo "Hello, World!"
+      delegate_to: "{{ my_app_pod_name }}"
+"""
+
+import json
 import os
 import os.path
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
-import json
 
-from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
-from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
+from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
+from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
+from ansible.plugins.connection import BUFSIZE, ConnectionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 display = Display()
@@ -301,6 +385,19 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
 
         return local_cmd, censored_local_cmd
 
+    def _local_env(self):
+        """Return a dict of local environment variables to pass to the kubectl command"""
+        local_env = {}
+        local_local_env_vars_name = "{0}_local_env_vars".format(self.transport)
+        local_env_vars = self.get_option(local_local_env_vars_name)
+        if local_env_vars:
+            if isinstance(local_env_vars, dict):
+                local_env_vars = json.dumps(local_env_vars)
+            local_env = os.environ.copy()
+            local_env.update(json.loads(local_env_vars))
+            return local_env
+        return None
+
     def _connect(self, port=None):
         """Connect to the container. Nothing to do"""
         super(Connection, self)._connect()
@@ -329,6 +426,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
             stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
             stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+            env=self._local_env(),
         )
 
         stdout, stderr = p.communicate(in_data)
@@ -378,7 +476,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
             args = [to_bytes(i, errors="surrogate_or_strict") for i in args]
             try:
                 p = subprocess.Popen(
-                    args, stdin=in_file, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
+                    args,
+                    stdin=in_file,
+                    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                    stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+                    env=self._local_env(),
                 )
             except OSError:
                 raise AnsibleError(
@@ -415,7 +517,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
         ) as out_file:
             try:
                 p = subprocess.Popen(
-                    args, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=out_file, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
+                    args,
+                    stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
+                    stdout=out_file,
+                    stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+                    env=self._local_env(),
                 )
             except OSError:
                 raise AnsibleError(

plugins/doc_fragments/helm_common_options.py

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   binary_path:
@@ -37,12 +36,12 @@ options:
     description:
     - Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via C(K8S_AUTH_HOST) environment variable.
     type: str
-    version_added: "1.2.0"
+    version_added: 1.2.0
   api_key:
     description:
     - Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via C(K8S_AUTH_API_KEY) environment variable.
     type: str
-    version_added: "1.2.0"
+    version_added: 1.2.0
   validate_certs:
     description:
     - Whether or not to verify the API server's SSL certificates. Can also be specified via C(K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL)
@@ -50,12 +49,12 @@ options:
     type: bool
     aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
     default: True
-    version_added: "1.2.0"
+    version_added: 1.2.0
   ca_cert:
     description:
     - 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 C(K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT) environment variable.
     type: path
     aliases: [ ssl_ca_cert ]
-    version_added: "1.2.0"
+    version_added: 1.2.0
 """

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_auth_options.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   host:

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_delete_options.py

@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   delete_options:
     type: dict
-    version_added: '1.2.0'
+    version_added: 1.2.0
     description:
     - Configure behavior when deleting an object.
     - Only used when I(state=absent).

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_name_options.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   api_version:

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_resource_options.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   resource_definition:

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_scale_options.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   replicas:

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_state_options.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   state:

plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_wait_options.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-
     DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 options:
   wait:

plugins/inventory/k8s.py

@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
       - Uses the kubectl connection plugin to access the Kubernetes cluster.
       - Uses k8s.(yml|yaml) YAML configuration file to set parameter values.
 
+    deprecated:
+      removed_in: 6.0.0
+      why: |
+        As discussed in U(https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31), we decided to
+        remove the k8s inventory plugin in release 6.0.0.
+      alternative: "Use M(kubernetes.core.k8s_info) and M(ansible.builtin.add_host) instead."
+
     options:
       plugin:
          description: token that ensures this is a source file for the 'k8s' plugin.
@@ -86,50 +93,50 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
                     to access.
 
     requirements:
-    - "python >= 3.6"
-    - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+    - "python >= 3.9"
+    - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
     - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 
-EXAMPLES = """
+EXAMPLES = r"""
 # 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'
 """
 
 import json
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.common import (
-    HAS_K8S_MODULE_HELPER,
-    k8s_import_exception,
-)
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
-    get_api_client,
-)
-from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable
+from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, Constructable
 
 try:
     from kubernetes.dynamic.exceptions import DynamicApiError
-except ImportError:
-    pass
+
+    HAS_K8S_MODULE_HELPER = True
+    k8s_import_exception = None
+except ImportError as e:
+    HAS_K8S_MODULE_HELPER = False
+    k8s_import_exception = e
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
+    get_api_client,
+)
 
 
 def format_dynamic_api_exc(exc):
@@ -155,6 +162,12 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
 
     def parse(self, inventory, loader, path, cache=True):
         super(InventoryModule, self).parse(inventory, loader, path)
+
+        self.display.deprecated(
+            "The 'k8s' inventory plugin has been deprecated and will be removed in release 6.0.0",
+            version="6.0.0",
+            collection_name="kubernetes.core",
+        )
         cache_key = self._get_cache_prefix(path)
         config_data = self._read_config_data(path)
         self.setup(config_data, cache, cache_key)
@@ -180,7 +193,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
             self.fetch_objects(connections)
 
     def fetch_objects(self, connections):
-
         if connections:
             if not isinstance(connections, list):
                 raise K8sInventoryException("Expecting connections to be a list.")

plugins/lookup/k8s.py

@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
         aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
 
     requirements:
-      - "python >= 3.6"
-      - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+      - "python >= 3.9"
+      - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
       - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ import os
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import KeysView
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_bool
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
 )
@@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ except ImportError as e:
 
 class KubernetesLookup(object):
     def __init__(self):
-
         if not HAS_K8S_MODULE_HELPER:
             raise Exception(
                 "Requires the Kubernetes Python client. Try `pip install kubernetes`. Detail: {0}".format(

plugins/lookup/kustomize.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
 
     short_description: Build a set of kubernetes resources using a 'kustomization.yaml' file.
 
-    version_added: "2.2.0"
+    version_added: 2.2.0
 
     author:
       - Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
       opt_dirs:
         description:
         - An optional list of directories to search for the executable in addition to PATH.
+      enable_helm:
+        description:
+        - Enable the helm chart inflation generator
+        default: "False"
 
     requirements:
       - "python >= 3.6"
@@ -37,16 +41,20 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
 
 EXAMPLES = """
 - name: Run lookup using kustomize
-  set_fact:
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
     resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', binary_path='/path/to/kustomize') }}"
 
 - name: Run lookup using kubectl kustomize
-  set_fact:
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
     resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', binary_path='/path/to/kubectl') }}"
 
 - name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output
-  k8s:
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
     definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='/path/to/kustomization') }}"
+
+- name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output with `--enable-helm` set
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='/path/to/kustomization', enable_helm=True) }}"
 """
 
 RETURN = """
@@ -64,13 +72,12 @@ RETURN = """
         key1: val1
 """
 
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError
-from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
-from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
-
-
 import subprocess
 
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError
+from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
+from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
+
 
 def get_binary_from_path(name, opt_dirs=None):
     opt_arg = {}
@@ -92,7 +99,14 @@ def run_command(command):
 
 class LookupModule(LookupBase):
     def run(
-        self, terms, variables=None, dir=".", binary_path=None, opt_dirs=None, **kwargs
+        self,
+        terms,
+        variables=None,
+        dir=".",
+        binary_path=None,
+        opt_dirs=None,
+        enable_helm=False,
+        **kwargs
     ):
         executable_path = binary_path
         if executable_path is None:
@@ -123,6 +137,9 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
                 )
             )
 
+        if enable_helm:
+            command += ["--enable-helm"]
+
         (out, err) = run_command(command)
         if err:
             raise AnsibleLookupError(

plugins/module_utils/ansiblemodule.py

@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ except TypeError:
 
 if enable_turbo_mode:
     try:
-        from ansible_collections.cloud.common.plugins.module_utils.turbo.module import (
+        from ansible_collections.cloud.common.plugins.module_utils.turbo.module import (  # noqa: F401
             AnsibleTurboModule as AnsibleModule,
-        )  # noqa: F401
+        )
 
         AnsibleModule.collection_name = "kubernetes.core"
     except ImportError:

plugins/module_utils/apply.py

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from collections import OrderedDict
 import json
+from collections import OrderedDict
 
 from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.exceptions import (
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.version import (
     LooseVersion,
 )
 
-
 try:
     from kubernetes.dynamic.exceptions import NotFoundError
 except ImportError:
@@ -150,6 +149,7 @@ def k8s_apply(resource, definition, **kwargs):
             force_conflicts=kwargs.get("force_conflicts"),
             field_manager=kwargs.get("field_manager"),
             dry_run=kwargs.get("dry_run"),
+            serialize=kwargs.get("serialize"),
         )
     if not existing:
         return resource.create(
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ def k8s_apply(resource, definition, **kwargs):
         return resource.get(
             name=definition["metadata"]["name"],
             namespace=definition["metadata"].get("namespace"),
+            **kwargs
         )
     return resource.patch(
         body=desired,

plugins/module_utils/client/discovery.py

@@ -13,15 +13,18 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
+import hashlib
 import json
 import os
-from collections import defaultdict
-import hashlib
 import tempfile
+from collections import defaultdict
 from functools import partial
 
 import kubernetes.dynamic
 import kubernetes.dynamic.discovery
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.client.resource import (
+    ResourceList,
+)
 from kubernetes import __version__
 from kubernetes.dynamic.exceptions import (
     ResourceNotFoundError,
@@ -29,10 +32,6 @@ from kubernetes.dynamic.exceptions import (
     ServiceUnavailableError,
 )
 
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.client.resource import (
-    ResourceList,
-)
-
 
 class Discoverer(kubernetes.dynamic.discovery.Discoverer):
     def __init__(self, client, cache_file):
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ class Discoverer(kubernetes.dynamic.discovery.Discoverer):
             filter(lambda resource: "/" in resource["name"], resources_response)
         )
         for subresource in subresources_raw:
-            resource, name = subresource["name"].split("/")
+            resource, name = subresource["name"].split("/", 1)
             subresources[resource][name] = subresource
 
         for resource in resources_raw:

plugins/module_utils/copy.py

@@ -18,25 +18,26 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 import os
-from tempfile import TemporaryFile, NamedTemporaryFile
-from select import select
-from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 import tarfile
+from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
+from select import select
+from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile, TemporaryFile
+
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 
 # from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import AnsibleModule
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 
 try:
     from kubernetes.client.api import core_v1_api
     from kubernetes.stream import stream
     from kubernetes.stream.ws_client import (
-        STDOUT_CHANNEL,
-        STDERR_CHANNEL,
-        ERROR_CHANNEL,
         ABNF,
+        ERROR_CHANNEL,
+        STDERR_CHANNEL,
+        STDOUT_CHANNEL,
     )
 except ImportError:
     pass

plugins/module_utils/hashes.py

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-import json
 import hashlib
+import json
 
 try:
     import string
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 def sorted_dict(unsorted_dict):
     result = OrderedDict()
-    for (k, v) in sorted(unsorted_dict.items()):
+    for k, v in sorted(unsorted_dict.items()):
         if isinstance(v, dict):
             v = sorted_dict(v)
         result[k] = v

plugins/module_utils/helm.py

@@ -7,19 +7,18 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 
+import copy
+import json
 import os
+import re
 import tempfile
 import traceback
-import re
-import json
-import copy
 
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.version import (
     LooseVersion,
 )
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
 try:
     import yaml
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@ class AnsibleHelmModule(object):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-
         self._module = None
         if "module" in kwargs:
             self._module = kwargs.get("module")
@@ -117,7 +115,7 @@ class AnsibleHelmModule(object):
         kubeconfig = self.params.get("kubeconfig")
         if kubeconfig:
             if isinstance(kubeconfig, string_types):
-                with open(kubeconfig) as fd:
+                with open(os.path.expanduser(kubeconfig)) as fd:
                     kubeconfig_content = yaml.safe_load(fd)
             elif isinstance(kubeconfig, dict):
                 kubeconfig_content = kubeconfig
@@ -184,7 +182,6 @@ class AnsibleHelmModule(object):
         )
 
     def get_helm_version(self):
-
         command = self.get_helm_binary() + " version"
         rc, out, err = self.run_command(command)
         m = re.match(r'version.BuildInfo{Version:"v([0-9\.]*)",', out)
@@ -216,7 +213,6 @@ class AnsibleHelmModule(object):
         return yaml.safe_load(out)
 
     def parse_yaml_content(self, content):
-
         if not HAS_YAML:
             self.fail_json(msg=missing_required_lib("yaml"), exception=HAS_YAML)
 
@@ -228,7 +224,6 @@ class AnsibleHelmModule(object):
             )
 
     def get_manifest(self, release_name):
-
         command = [
             self.get_helm_binary(),
             "get",
@@ -241,7 +236,6 @@ class AnsibleHelmModule(object):
         return self.parse_yaml_content(out)
 
     def get_notes(self, release_name):
-
         command = [
             self.get_helm_binary(),
             "get",

plugins/module_utils/k8s/client.py

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright: (c) 2021, Red Hat | Ansible
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 
-import os
 import hashlib
+import os
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, string_types
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
     AUTH_ARG_MAP,
     AUTH_ARG_SPEC,

plugins/module_utils/k8s/core.py

@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 import traceback
-
 from typing import Optional
 
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.version import (
     LooseVersion,
 )
 
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
-
 
 class AnsibleK8SModule:
     """A base module class for K8S modules.
@@ -38,7 +35,7 @@ class AnsibleK8SModule:
 
         if self.settings["check_k8s"]:
             self.requires("kubernetes")
-            self.has_at_least("kubernetes", "12.0.0", warn=True)
+            self.has_at_least("kubernetes", "24.2.0", warn=True)
 
         if self.settings["check_pyyaml"]:
             self.requires("pyyaml")

plugins/module_utils/k8s/resource.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 
 import os
-from typing import cast, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Union
+from typing import Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Union, cast
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import Request

plugins/module_utils/k8s/runner.py

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 from typing import Dict
 
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
+    ResourceTimeout,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.resource import (
     create_definitions,
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.resource impor
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.service import (
     K8sService,
     diff_objects,
-)
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
-    ResourceTimeout,
+    hide_fields,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.waiter import exists
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.selector import (
@@ -46,16 +44,51 @@ def validate(client, module, resource):
     return [_prepend_resource_info(resource, msg) for msg in warnings + errors]
 
 
+def get_definitions(svc, params):
+    try:
+        definitions = create_definitions(params)
+    except Exception as e:
+        msg = "Failed to load resource definition: {0}".format(e)
+        raise CoreException(msg) from e
+
+    delete_all = params.get("delete_all")
+    src = params.get("src")
+    resource_definition = params.get("resource_definition")
+    name = params.get("name")
+    state = params.get("state")
+
+    if (
+        delete_all
+        and state == "absent"
+        and name is None
+        and resource_definition is None
+        and src is None
+    ):
+        # Delete all resources in the namespace for the specified resource type
+        if params.get("kind") is None:
+            raise CoreException(
+                "'kind' option is required to specify the resource type."
+            )
+
+        resource = svc.find_resource(
+            params.get("kind"), params.get("api_version"), fail=True
+        )
+        definitions = svc.retrieve_all(
+            resource,
+            params.get("namespace"),
+            params.get("label_selectors"),
+        )
+
+    return definitions
+
+
 def run_module(module) -> None:
     results = []
     changed = False
     client = get_api_client(module)
     svc = K8sService(client, module)
-    try:
-        definitions = create_definitions(module.params)
-    except Exception as e:
-        msg = "Failed to load resource definition: {0}".format(e)
-        raise CoreException(msg) from e
+
+    definitions = get_definitions(svc, module.params)
 
     for definition in definitions:
         result = {"changed": False, "result": {}}
@@ -102,9 +135,11 @@ def perform_action(svc, definition: Dict, params: Dict) -> Dict:
     state = params.get("state", None)
     kind = definition.get("kind")
     api_version = definition.get("apiVersion")
+    hidden_fields = params.get("hidden_fields")
 
     result = {"changed": False, "result": {}}
     instance = {}
+    warnings = []
 
     resource = svc.find_resource(kind, api_version, fail=True)
     definition["kind"] = resource.kind
@@ -138,7 +173,7 @@ def perform_action(svc, definition: Dict, params: Dict) -> Dict:
                 return result
 
         if params.get("apply"):
-            instance = svc.apply(resource, definition, existing)
+            instance, warnings = svc.apply(resource, definition, existing)
             result["method"] = "apply"
         elif not existing:
             if state == "patched":
@@ -149,16 +184,19 @@ def perform_action(svc, definition: Dict, params: Dict) -> Dict:
                     )
                 )
                 return result
-            instance = svc.create(resource, definition)
+            instance, warnings = svc.create(resource, definition)
             result["method"] = "create"
             result["changed"] = True
         elif params.get("force", False):
-            instance = svc.replace(resource, definition, existing)
+            instance, warnings = svc.replace(resource, definition, existing)
             result["method"] = "replace"
         else:
-            instance = svc.update(resource, definition, existing)
+            instance, warnings = svc.update(resource, definition, existing)
             result["method"] = "update"
 
+    if warnings:
+        result["warnings"] = warnings
+
     # If needed, wait and/or create diff
     success = True
 
@@ -177,7 +215,7 @@ def perform_action(svc, definition: Dict, params: Dict) -> Dict:
             existing = existing.to_dict()
         else:
             existing = {}
-        match, diffs = diff_objects(existing, instance)
+        match, diffs = diff_objects(existing, instance, hidden_fields)
         if match and diffs:
             result.setdefault("warnings", []).append(
                 "No meaningful diff was generated, but the API may not be idempotent "
@@ -187,7 +225,7 @@ def perform_action(svc, definition: Dict, params: Dict) -> Dict:
         if svc.module._diff:
             result["diff"] = diffs
 
-    result["result"] = instance
+    result["result"] = hide_fields(instance, hidden_fields)
     if not success:
         raise ResourceTimeout(
             '"{0}" "{1}": Timed out waiting on resource'.format(

plugins/module_utils/k8s/service.py

@@ -1,38 +1,35 @@
 # Copyright: (c) 2021, Red Hat | Ansible
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 
+import copy
+from json import loads
+from re import compile
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
 
+from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.hashes import (
     generate_hash,
 )
-
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.waiter import (
-    Waiter,
-    exists,
-    resource_absent,
-    get_waiter,
-)
-
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
-    requires,
-)
-
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import requires
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
-
-from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.waiter import (
+    Waiter,
+    exists,
+    get_waiter,
+    resource_absent,
+)
 
 try:
     from kubernetes.dynamic.exceptions import (
-        NotFoundError,
-        ResourceNotFoundError,
-        ResourceNotUniqueError,
+        BadRequestError,
         ConflictError,
         ForbiddenError,
         MethodNotAllowedError,
-        BadRequestError,
+        NotFoundError,
+        ResourceNotFoundError,
+        ResourceNotUniqueError,
     )
 except ImportError:
     # Handled in module setup
@@ -147,18 +144,12 @@ class K8sService:
         name: str,
         namespace: str,
         merge_type: str = None,
-    ) -> Dict:
-        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",
-                collection_name="kubernetes.core",
-            )
+    ) -> Tuple[Dict, List[str]]:
         try:
-            params = dict(name=name, namespace=namespace)
+            params = dict(name=name, namespace=namespace, serialize=False)
             if merge_type:
                 params["content_type"] = "application/{0}-patch+json".format(merge_type)
-            return self.client.patch(resource, definition, **params).to_dict()
+            return decode_response(self.client.patch(resource, definition, **params))
         except Exception as e:
             reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
             msg = "Failed to patch object: {0}".format(reason)
@@ -211,6 +202,30 @@ class K8sService:
 
         return existing
 
+    def retrieve_all(
+        self, resource: Resource, namespace: str, label_selectors: List[str] = None
+    ) -> List[Dict]:
+        definitions: List[ResourceInstance] = []
+
+        try:
+            params = dict(namespace=namespace)
+            if label_selectors:
+                params["label_selector"] = ",".join(label_selectors)
+            resource_list = self.client.get(resource, **params)
+            for item in resource_list.items:
+                existing = self.client.get(
+                    resource, name=item.metadata.name, namespace=namespace
+                )
+                definitions.append(existing.to_dict())
+        except (NotFoundError, MethodNotAllowedError):
+            pass
+        except Exception as e:
+            reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
+            msg = "Failed to retrieve requested object: {0}".format(reason)
+            raise CoreException(msg) from e
+
+        return definitions
+
     def find(
         self,
         kind: str,
@@ -224,6 +239,7 @@ class K8sService:
         wait_timeout: Optional[int] = 120,
         state: Optional[str] = "present",
         condition: Optional[Dict] = None,
+        hidden_fields: Optional[List] = None,
     ) -> Dict:
         resource = self.find_resource(kind, api_version)
         api_found = bool(resource)
@@ -286,7 +302,9 @@ class K8sService:
         instances = resources.get("items") or [resources]
 
         if not wait:
-            result["resources"] = instances
+            result["resources"] = [
+                hide_fields(instance, hidden_fields) for instance in instances
+            ]
             return result
 
         # Now wait for the specified state of any resource instances we have found.
@@ -305,126 +323,127 @@ class K8sService:
                     "Failed to gather information about %s(s) even"
                     " after waiting for %s seconds" % (res.get("kind"), duration)
                 )
-            result["resources"].append(res)
+            result["resources"].append(hide_fields(res, hidden_fields))
         return result
 
-    def create(self, resource: Resource, definition: Dict) -> Dict:
+    def create(self, resource: Resource, definition: Dict) -> Tuple[Dict, List[str]]:
         namespace = definition["metadata"].get("namespace")
         name = definition["metadata"].get("name")
 
         if self._client_side_dry_run:
-            k8s_obj = _encode_stringdata(definition)
-        else:
-            try:
-                k8s_obj = self.client.create(
-                    resource, definition, namespace=namespace
-                ).to_dict()
-            except ConflictError:
-                # Some resources, like ProjectRequests, can't be created multiple times,
-                # because the resources that they create don't match their kind
-                # In this case we'll mark it as unchanged and warn the user
-                self.module.warn(
-                    "{0} was not found, but creating it returned a 409 Conflict error. This can happen \
-                            if the resource you are creating does not directly create a resource of the same kind.".format(
-                        name
-                    )
+            return _encode_stringdata(definition), []
+
+        try:
+            return decode_response(
+                self.client.create(
+                    resource, definition, namespace=namespace, serialize=False
                 )
-                return dict()
-            except Exception as e:
-                reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
-                msg = "Failed to create object: {0}".format(reason)
-                raise CoreException(msg) from e
-        return k8s_obj
+            )
+        except ConflictError:
+            # Some resources, like ProjectRequests, can't be created multiple times,
+            # because the resources that they create don't match their kind
+            # In this case we'll mark it as unchanged and warn the user
+            self.module.warn(
+                "{0} was not found, but creating it returned a 409 Conflict error. This can happen \
+                        if the resource you are creating does not directly create a resource of the same kind.".format(
+                    name
+                )
+            )
+            return dict(), []
+        except Exception as e:
+            reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
+            msg = "Failed to create object: {0}".format(reason)
+            raise CoreException(msg) from e
 
     def apply(
         self,
         resource: Resource,
         definition: Dict,
         existing: Optional[ResourceInstance] = None,
-    ) -> Dict:
+    ) -> Tuple[Dict, List[str]]:
         namespace = definition["metadata"].get("namespace")
 
         server_side_apply = self.module.params.get("server_side_apply")
         if server_side_apply:
             requires("kubernetes", "19.15.0", reason="to use server side apply")
+
         if self._client_side_dry_run:
             ignored, patch = apply_object(resource, _encode_stringdata(definition))
             if existing:
-                k8s_obj = dict_merge(existing.to_dict(), patch)
+                return dict_merge(existing.to_dict(), patch), []
             else:
-                k8s_obj = patch
-        else:
-            try:
-                params = {}
-                if server_side_apply:
-                    params["server_side"] = True
-                    params.update(server_side_apply)
-                k8s_obj = self.client.apply(
-                    resource, definition, namespace=namespace, **params
-                ).to_dict()
-            except Exception as e:
-                reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
-                msg = "Failed to apply object: {0}".format(reason)
-                raise CoreException(msg) from e
-        return k8s_obj
+                return patch, []
+
+        try:
+            params = {}
+            if server_side_apply:
+                params["server_side"] = True
+                params.update(server_side_apply)
+            return decode_response(
+                self.client.apply(
+                    resource, definition, namespace=namespace, serialize=False, **params
+                )
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
+            msg = "Failed to apply object: {0}".format(reason)
+            raise CoreException(msg) from e
 
     def replace(
         self,
         resource: Resource,
         definition: Dict,
         existing: ResourceInstance,
-    ) -> Dict:
+    ) -> Tuple[Dict, List[str]]:
         append_hash = self.module.params.get("append_hash", False)
         name = definition["metadata"].get("name")
         namespace = definition["metadata"].get("namespace")
 
         if self._client_side_dry_run:
-            k8s_obj = _encode_stringdata(definition)
-        else:
-            try:
-                k8s_obj = self.client.replace(
+            return _encode_stringdata(definition), []
+
+        try:
+            return decode_response(
+                self.client.replace(
                     resource,
                     definition,
                     name=name,
                     namespace=namespace,
                     append_hash=append_hash,
-                ).to_dict()
-            except Exception as e:
-                reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
-                msg = "Failed to replace object: {0}".format(reason)
-                raise CoreException(msg) from e
-        return k8s_obj
+                    serialize=False,
+                )
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            reason = e.body if hasattr(e, "body") else e
+            msg = "Failed to replace object: {0}".format(reason)
+            raise CoreException(msg) from e
 
     def update(
         self, resource: Resource, definition: Dict, existing: ResourceInstance
-    ) -> Dict:
+    ) -> Tuple[Dict, List[str]]:
         name = definition["metadata"].get("name")
         namespace = definition["metadata"].get("namespace")
 
         if self._client_side_dry_run:
-            k8s_obj = dict_merge(existing.to_dict(), _encode_stringdata(definition))
-        else:
-            exception = None
-            for merge_type in self.module.params.get("merge_type") or [
-                "strategic-merge",
-                "merge",
-            ]:
-                try:
-                    k8s_obj = self.patch_resource(
-                        resource,
-                        definition,
-                        name,
-                        namespace,
-                        merge_type=merge_type,
-                    )
-                    exception = None
-                except CoreException as e:
-                    exception = e
-                    continue
-                break
-            if exception:
-                raise exception
-        return k8s_obj
+            return dict_merge(existing.to_dict(), _encode_stringdata(definition)), []
+
+        exception = None
+        for merge_type in self.module.params.get("merge_type") or [
+            "strategic-merge",
+            "merge",
+        ]:
+            try:
+                return self.patch_resource(
+                    resource,
+                    definition,
+                    name,
+                    namespace,
+                    merge_type=merge_type,
+                )
+            except CoreException as e:
+                exception = e
+                continue
+        raise exception
 
     def delete(
         self,
@@ -471,7 +490,9 @@ class K8sService:
         return k8s_obj
 
 
-def diff_objects(existing: Dict, new: Dict) -> Tuple[bool, Dict]:
+def diff_objects(
+    existing: Dict, new: Dict, hidden_fields: Optional[list] = None
+) -> Tuple[bool, Dict]:
     result = {}
     diff = recursive_diff(existing, new)
     if not diff:
@@ -493,4 +514,109 @@ def diff_objects(existing: Dict, new: Dict) -> Tuple[bool, Dict]:
     if not set(result["before"]["metadata"].keys()).issubset(ignored_keys):
         return False, result
 
+    result["before"] = hide_fields(result["before"], hidden_fields)
+    result["after"] = hide_fields(result["after"], hidden_fields)
+
     return True, result
+
+
+def hide_fields(definition: dict, hidden_fields: Optional[list]) -> dict:
+    if not hidden_fields:
+        return definition
+    result = copy.deepcopy(definition)
+    for hidden_field in hidden_fields:
+        result = hide_field(result, hidden_field)
+    return result
+
+
+# hide_field is not hugely sophisticated and designed to cope
+# with e.g. status or metadata.managedFields rather than e.g.
+# spec.template.spec.containers[0].env[3].value
+def hide_field(definition: dict, hidden_field: str) -> dict:
+    split = hidden_field.split(".", 1)
+    if split[0] in definition:
+        if len(split) == 2:
+            definition[split[0]] = hide_field(definition[split[0]], split[1])
+        else:
+            del definition[split[0]]
+    return definition
+
+
+def decode_response(resp) -> Tuple[Dict, List[str]]:
+    """
+    This function decodes unserialized responses from the Kubernetes python
+    client and decodes the RFC2616 14.46 warnings found in the response
+    headers.
+    """
+    obj = ResourceInstance(None, loads(resp.data.decode("utf8"))).to_dict()
+    warnings = []
+    if (
+        resp.headers is not None
+        and "warning" in resp.headers
+        and resp.headers["warning"] is not None
+    ):
+        warnings = resp.headers["warning"].split(", ")
+    return obj, decode_warnings(warnings)
+
+
+def decode_warnings(warnings: str) -> List[str]:
+    """
+    This function decodes RFC2616 14.46 warnings in a simplified way, where
+    only the warn-texts are returned in a list.
+    """
+    p = compile('\\d{3} .+ (".+")')
+
+    decoded = []
+    for warning in warnings:
+        m = p.match(warning)
+        if m:
+            try:
+                parsed, unused = parse_quoted_string(m.group(1))
+                decoded.append(parsed)
+            except ValueError:
+                continue
+
+    return decoded
+
+
+def parse_quoted_string(quoted_string: str) -> Tuple[str, str]:
+    """
+    This function was adapted from:
+    https://github.com/kubernetes/apimachinery/blob/bb8822152cabfb4f34dbc26270f874ce53db50de/pkg/util/net/http.go#L609
+    """
+    if len(quoted_string) == 0:
+        raise ValueError("invalid quoted string: 0-length")
+
+    if quoted_string[0] != '"':
+        raise ValueError("invalid quoted string: missing initial quote")
+
+    quoted_string = quoted_string[1:]
+    remainder = ""
+    escaping = False
+    closed_quote = False
+    result = []
+
+    for i, b in enumerate(quoted_string):
+        if b == '"':
+            if escaping:
+                result.append(b)
+                escaping = False
+            else:
+                closed_quote = True
+                remainder_start = i + 1
+                remainder = quoted_string[remainder_start:].strip()
+                break
+        elif b == "\\":
+            if escaping:
+                result.append(b)
+                escaping = False
+            else:
+                escaping = True
+        else:
+            result.append(b)
+            escaping = False
+
+    if not closed_quote:
+        raise ValueError("invalid quoted string: missing closing quote")
+
+    return "".join(result), remainder

plugins/module_utils/k8s/waiter.py

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from functools import partial
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterator, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
@@ -61,6 +60,13 @@ def daemonset_ready(daemonset: ResourceInstance) -> bool:
 
 
 def statefulset_ready(statefulset: ResourceInstance) -> bool:
+    if statefulset.spec.updateStrategy.type == "OnDelete":
+        return bool(
+            statefulset.status
+            and statefulset.status.observedGeneration
+            == (statefulset.metadata.generation or 0)
+            and statefulset.status.replicas == statefulset.spec.replicas
+        )
     # These may be None
     updated_replicas = statefulset.status.updatedReplicas or 0
     ready_replicas = statefulset.status.readyReplicas or 0

plugins/module_utils/k8sdynamicclient.py

@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 
-from kubernetes.dynamic import DynamicClient
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.apply import k8s_apply
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.exceptions import (
     ApplyException,
 )
+from kubernetes.dynamic import DynamicClient
 
 
 class K8SDynamicClient(DynamicClient):

plugins/module_utils/selector.py

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import re
 
 
 class Selector(object):
-
     equality_based_operators = ("==", "!=", "=")
 
     def __init__(self, data):

plugins/modules/helm.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module: helm
 
 short_description: Manages Kubernetes packages with the Helm package manager
 
-version_added: "0.11.0"
+version_added: 0.11.0
 
 author:
   - Lucas Boisserie (@LucasBoisserie)
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ options:
     default: false
     type: bool
     aliases: [ dep_up ]
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   release_name:
     description:
       - Release name to manage.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ options:
     default: []
     type: list
     elements: str
-    version_added: '1.1.0'
+    version_added: 1.1.0
   update_repo_cache:
     description:
       - Run C(helm repo update) before the operation. Can be run as part of the package installation or as a separate step (see Examples).
@@ -129,7 +129,22 @@ options:
           - string
           - json
           - file
-    version_added: '2.4.0'
+    version_added: 2.4.0
+  reuse_values:
+    description:
+      - When upgrading package, specifies wether to reuse the last release's values and merge in any overrides from parameters I(release_values),
+        I(values_files) or I(set_values).
+      - If I(reset_values) is set to C(True), this is ignored.
+    type: bool
+    required: false
+    version_added: 2.5.0
+  reset_values:
+    description:
+      - When upgrading package, reset the values to the ones built into the chart.
+    type: bool
+    required: false
+    default: True
+    version_added: 2.5.0
 
 #Helm options
   disable_hook:
@@ -166,7 +181,7 @@ options:
       - similar to C(wait_timeout) but does not required C(wait) to be activated.
       - Mutually exclusive with C(wait_timeout).
     type: str
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    version_added: 2.3.0
   atomic:
     description:
       - If set, the installation process deletes the installation on failure.
@@ -177,12 +192,12 @@ options:
       - Create the release namespace if not present.
     type: bool
     default: False
-    version_added: "0.11.1"
+    version_added: 0.11.1
   post_renderer:
     description:
       - Path to an executable to be used for post rendering.
     type: str
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   replace:
     description:
       - Reuse the given name, only if that name is a deleted release which remains in the history.
@@ -190,19 +205,19 @@ options:
       - mutually exclusive with with C(history_max).
     type: bool
     default: False
-    version_added: "1.11.0"
+    version_added: 1.11.0
   skip_crds:
     description:
       - Skip custom resource definitions when installing or upgrading.
     type: bool
     default: False
-    version_added: "1.2.0"
+    version_added: 1.2.0
   history_max:
     description:
       - Limit the maximum number of revisions saved per release.
       - mutually exclusive with with C(replace).
     type: int
-    version_added: "2.2.0"
+    version_added: 2.2.0
 extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.helm_common_options
 """
@@ -310,6 +325,17 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
         enabled: True
       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 = r"""
@@ -367,10 +393,11 @@ command:
   sample: helm upgrade ...
 """
 
+import copy
 import re
 import tempfile
 import traceback
-import copy
+
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.version import (
     LooseVersion,
 )
@@ -406,14 +433,20 @@ def get_release(state, release_name):
     return None
 
 
-def get_release_status(module, release_name):
+def get_release_status(module, release_name, all_status=False):
     """
-    Get Release state from deployed release
+    Get Release state from all release status (deployed, failed, pending-install, etc)
     """
 
-    list_command = (
-        module.get_helm_binary() + " list --output=yaml --filter " + release_name
-    )
+    list_command = [
+        module.get_helm_binary(),
+        "list",
+        "--output=yaml",
+        "--filter",
+        release_name,
+    ]
+    if all_status:
+        list_command.append("--all")
 
     rc, out, err = module.run_helm_command(list_command)
 
@@ -439,7 +472,7 @@ def run_dep_update(module, chart_ref):
     """
     Run dependency update
     """
-    dep_update = module.get_helm_binary() + " dependency update " + chart_ref
+    dep_update = module.get_helm_binary() + f" dependency update '{chart_ref}'"
     rc, out, err = module.run_helm_command(dep_update)
 
 
@@ -447,7 +480,7 @@ def fetch_chart_info(module, command, chart_ref):
     """
     Get chart info
     """
-    inspect_command = command + " show chart " + chart_ref
+    inspect_command = command + f" show chart '{chart_ref}'"
 
     rc, out, err = module.run_helm_command(inspect_command)
 
@@ -455,6 +488,7 @@ def fetch_chart_info(module, command, chart_ref):
 
 
 def deploy(
+    module,
     command,
     release_name,
     release_values,
@@ -473,6 +507,8 @@ def deploy(
     timeout=None,
     dependency_update=None,
     set_value_args=None,
+    reuse_values=None,
+    reset_values=True,
 ):
     """
     Install/upgrade/rollback release chart
@@ -484,9 +520,11 @@ def deploy(
             deploy_command += " --dependency-update"
     else:
         deploy_command = command + " upgrade -i"  # install/upgrade
+        if reset_values:
+            deploy_command += " --reset-values"
 
-        # Always reset values to keep release_values equal to values released
-        deploy_command += " --reset-values"
+    if reuse_values is not None:
+        deploy_command += " --reuse-values=" + str(reuse_values)
 
     if wait:
         deploy_command += " --wait"
@@ -520,9 +558,10 @@ def deploy(
         with open(path, "w") as yaml_file:
             yaml.dump(release_values, yaml_file, default_flow_style=False)
         deploy_command += " -f=" + path
+        module.add_cleanup_file(path)
 
     if post_renderer:
-        deploy_command = " --post-renderer=" + post_renderer
+        deploy_command += " --post-renderer=" + post_renderer
 
     if skip_crds:
         deploy_command += " --skip-crds"
@@ -533,7 +572,7 @@ def deploy(
     if set_value_args:
         deploy_command += " " + set_value_args
 
-    deploy_command += " " + release_name + " " + chart_name
+    deploy_command += " " + release_name + f" '{chart_name}'"
     return deploy_command
 
 
@@ -599,6 +638,10 @@ def helmdiff_check(
     chart_version=None,
     replace=False,
     chart_repo_url=None,
+    post_renderer=False,
+    set_value_args=None,
+    reuse_values=None,
+    reset_values=True,
 ):
     """
     Use helm diff to determine if a release would change by upgrading a chart.
@@ -612,7 +655,13 @@ def helmdiff_check(
     if chart_version is not None:
         cmd += " " + "--version=" + chart_version
     if not replace:
-        cmd += " " + "--reset-values"
+        cmd += " " + "--reset-values=" + str(reset_values)
+    if post_renderer:
+        cmd += " --post-renderer=" + post_renderer
+
+    if values_files:
+        for value_file in values_files:
+            cmd += " --values=" + value_file
 
     if release_values != {}:
         fd, path = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".yml")
@@ -621,9 +670,11 @@ def helmdiff_check(
         cmd += " -f=" + path
         module.add_cleanup_file(path)
 
-    if values_files:
-        for values_file in values_files:
-            cmd += " -f=" + values_file
+    if set_value_args:
+        cmd += " " + set_value_args
+
+    if reuse_values:
+        cmd += " --reuse-values"
 
     rc, out, err = module.run_helm_command(cmd)
     return (len(out.strip()) > 0, out.strip())
@@ -682,6 +733,8 @@ def argument_spec():
             skip_crds=dict(type="bool", default=False),
             history_max=dict(type="int"),
             set_values=dict(type="list", elements="dict"),
+            reuse_values=dict(type="bool"),
+            reset_values=dict(type="bool", default=True),
         )
     )
     return arg_spec
@@ -732,34 +785,38 @@ def main():
     history_max = module.params.get("history_max")
     timeout = module.params.get("timeout")
     set_values = module.params.get("set_values")
+    reuse_values = module.params.get("reuse_values")
+    reset_values = module.params.get("reset_values")
 
     if update_repo_cache:
         run_repo_update(module)
 
     # Get real/deployed release status
-    release_status = get_release_status(module, release_name)
+    all_status = release_state == "absent"
+    release_status = get_release_status(module, release_name, all_status=all_status)
 
     helm_cmd = module.get_helm_binary()
     opt_result = {}
     if release_state == "absent" and release_status is not None:
-        if replace:
-            module.fail_json(msg="replace is not applicable when state is absent")
+        # skip release statuses 'uninstalled' and 'uninstalling'
+        if not release_status["status"].startswith("uninstall"):
+            if replace:
+                module.fail_json(msg="replace is not applicable when state is absent")
 
-        if wait:
-            helm_version = module.get_helm_version()
-            if LooseVersion(helm_version) < LooseVersion("3.7.0"):
-                opt_result["warnings"] = []
-                opt_result["warnings"].append(
-                    "helm uninstall support option --wait for helm release >= 3.7.0"
-                )
-                wait = False
+            if wait:
+                helm_version = module.get_helm_version()
+                if LooseVersion(helm_version) < LooseVersion("3.7.0"):
+                    opt_result["warnings"] = []
+                    opt_result["warnings"].append(
+                        "helm uninstall support option --wait for helm release >= 3.7.0"
+                    )
+                    wait = False
 
-        helm_cmd = delete(
-            helm_cmd, release_name, purge, disable_hook, wait, wait_timeout
-        )
-        changed = True
+            helm_cmd = delete(
+                helm_cmd, release_name, purge, disable_hook, wait, wait_timeout
+            )
+            changed = True
     elif release_state == "present":
-
         if chart_version is not None:
             helm_cmd += " --version=" + chart_version
 
@@ -799,12 +856,13 @@ def main():
                     "Please consider add dependencies block or disable dependency_update to remove this warning."
                 )
 
-        if release_status is None:  # Not installed
-            set_value_args = None
-            if set_values:
-                set_value_args = module.get_helm_set_values_args(set_values)
+        set_value_args = None
+        if set_values:
+            set_value_args = module.get_helm_set_values_args(set_values)
 
+        if release_status is None:  # Not installed
             helm_cmd = deploy(
+                module,
                 helm_cmd,
                 release_name,
                 release_values,
@@ -823,11 +881,12 @@ def main():
                 history_max=history_max,
                 timeout=timeout,
                 set_value_args=set_value_args,
+                reuse_values=reuse_values,
+                reset_values=reset_values,
             )
             changed = True
 
         else:
-
             helm_diff_version = get_plugin_version("diff")
             if helm_diff_version and (
                 not chart_repo_url
@@ -845,6 +904,10 @@ def main():
                     chart_version,
                     replace,
                     chart_repo_url,
+                    post_renderer,
+                    set_value_args,
+                    reuse_values=reuse_values,
+                    reset_values=reset_values,
                 )
                 if would_change and module._diff:
                     opt_result["diff"] = {"prepared": prepared}
@@ -858,11 +921,8 @@ def main():
                 )
 
             if force or would_change:
-                set_value_args = None
-                if set_values:
-                    set_value_args = module.get_helm_set_values_args(set_values)
-
                 helm_cmd = deploy(
+                    module,
                     helm_cmd,
                     release_name,
                     release_values,
@@ -881,6 +941,8 @@ def main():
                     timeout=timeout,
                     dependency_update=dependency_update,
                     set_value_args=set_value_args,
+                    reuse_values=reuse_values,
+                    reset_values=reset_values,
                 )
                 changed = True
 
@@ -914,7 +976,7 @@ def main():
         changed=changed,
         stdout=out,
         stderr=err,
-        status=get_release_status(module, release_name),
+        status=get_release_status(module, release_name, all_status=True),
         command=helm_cmd,
         **opt_result,
     )

plugins/modules/helm_info.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module: helm_info
 
 short_description: Get information from Helm package deployed inside the cluster
 
-version_added: "0.11.0"
+version_added: 0.11.0
 
 author:
   - Lucas Boisserie (@LucasBoisserie)
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ options:
       - If set to C(uninstalling), show releases that are currently being uninstalled.
     type: list
     elements: str
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    default: []
+    version_added: 2.3.0
   get_all_values:
     description:
       - Set to C(True) if you want to get all (computed) values of the release.
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ options:
     required: false
     default: false
     type: bool
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
 extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.helm_common_options
 """
@@ -122,22 +123,22 @@ status:
       elements: dict
       description: Hooks of the release
       returned: always
-      version_added: "2.4.0"
+      version_added: 2.4.0
     notes:
       type: str
       description: Notes of the release
       returned: always
-      version_added: "2.4.0"
+      version_added: 2.4.0
     manifest:
       type: list
       elements: dict
       description: Manifest of the release
       returned: always
-      version_added: "2.4.0"
+      version_added: 2.4.0
 """
 
-import traceback
 import copy
+import traceback
 
 try:
     import yaml

plugins/modules/helm_plugin.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 ---
 module: helm_plugin
 short_description: Manage Helm plugins
-version_added: "1.0.0"
+version_added: 1.0.0
 author:
   - Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
 requirements:
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ options:
       - Ignored when C(state=absent) or C(state=latest).
     required: false
     type: str
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    version_added: 2.3.0
 extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.helm_common_options
 """
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ rc:
 """
 
 import copy
+
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.helm import (
     AnsibleHelmModule,
     parse_helm_plugin_list,

plugins/modules/helm_plugin_info.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 ---
 module: helm_plugin_info
 short_description: Gather information about Helm plugins
-version_added: "1.0.0"
+version_added: 1.0.0
 author:
   - Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
 requirements:
@@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ rc:
 """
 
 import copy
+
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.helm import (
-    parse_helm_plugin_list,
     AnsibleHelmModule,
+    parse_helm_plugin_list,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.helm_args_common import (
     HELM_AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
@@ -82,7 +83,6 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.helm_args_common i
 
 
 def main():
-
     argument_spec = copy.deepcopy(HELM_AUTH_ARG_SPEC)
     argument_spec.update(
         dict(

plugins/modules/helm_pull.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 ---
 module: helm_pull
 short_description: download a chart from a repository and (optionally) unpack it in local directory.
-version_added: "2.4.0"
+version_added: 2.4.0
 author:
   - Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)
 description:

plugins/modules/helm_repository.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module: helm_repository
 
 short_description: Manage Helm repositories.
 
-version_added: "0.11.0"
+version_added: 0.11.0
 
 author:
   - Lucas Boisserie (@LucasBoisserie)
@@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ options:
     description:
     - Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via C(K8S_AUTH_HOST) environment variable.
     type: str
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    version_added: 2.3.0
   api_key:
     description:
     - Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via C(K8S_AUTH_API_KEY) environment variable.
     type: str
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    version_added: 2.3.0
   validate_certs:
     description:
     - Whether or not to verify the API server's SSL certificates. Can also be specified via C(K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL)
@@ -89,21 +89,21 @@ options:
     type: bool
     aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
     default: True
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    version_added: 2.3.0
   ca_cert:
     description:
     - 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 C(K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT) environment variable.
     type: path
     aliases: [ ssl_ca_cert ]
-    version_added: "2.3.0"
+    version_added: 2.3.0
   context:
     description:
       - Helm option to specify which kubeconfig context to use.
       - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT) will be used instead.
     type: str
     aliases: [ kube_context ]
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   kubeconfig:
     description:
       - Helm option to specify kubeconfig path to use.
@@ -111,14 +111,14 @@ options:
       - The configuration can be provided as dictionary.
     type: raw
     aliases: [ kubeconfig_path ]
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   force_update:
     description:
     - Whether or not to replace (overwrite) the repo if it already exists.
     type: bool
     aliases: [ force ]
     default: False
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
 """
 
 EXAMPLES = r"""
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ msg:
   sample: 'Repository already have a repository named bitnami'
 """
 
-import traceback
 import copy
+import traceback
 
 try:
     import yaml

plugins/modules/helm_template.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ options:
     default: false
     type: bool
     aliases: [ dep_up ]
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   disable_hook:
     description:
       - Prevent hooks from running during install.
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ options:
     required: false
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
     version_added: 2.4.0
   values_files:
     description:
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ options:
           - string
           - json
           - file
-    version_added: '2.4.0'
+    version_added: 2.4.0
 """
 
 EXAMPLES = r"""

plugins/modules/k8s.py

@@ -57,15 +57,14 @@ options:
     - Whether to override the default patch merge approach with a specific type. By default, the strategic
       merge will typically be used.
     - For example, Custom Resource Definitions typically aren't updatable by the usual strategic merge. You may
-      want to use C(merge) if you see "strategic merge patch format is not supported"
+      want to use C(merge) if you see "strategic merge patch format is not supported".
     - See U(https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/#use-a-json-merge-patch-to-update-a-deployment)
     - If more than one C(merge_type) is given, the merge_types will be tried in order. This defaults to
       C(['strategic-merge', 'merge']), which is ideal for using the same parameters on resource kinds that
       combine Custom Resources and built-in resources.
-    - mutually exclusive with C(apply)
-    - I(merge_type=json) is deprecated and will be removed in version 3.0.0. Please use M(kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch) instead.
+    - Mutually exclusive with C(apply).
+    - I(merge_type=json) has been removed in version 4.0.0. Please use M(kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch) instead.
     choices:
-    - json
     - merge
     - strategic-merge
     type: list
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ options:
     - C(apply) compares the desired resource definition with the previously supplied resource definition,
       ignoring properties that are automatically generated
     - C(apply) works better with Services than 'force=yes'
-    - mutually exclusive with C(merge_type)
+    - Mutually exclusive with C(merge_type).
     default: False
     type: bool
   template:
@@ -172,10 +171,31 @@ options:
         - When set to True, server-side apply will force the changes against conflicts.
         type: bool
         default: False
+  delete_all:
+    description:
+    - When this option is set to I(true) and I(state=absent),
+      module will delete all resources of the specified resource type in the requested namespace.
+    - Ignored when C(state) is not set to I(absent) or when one of (src),
+      C(name)  or C(resource_definition) is provided.
+    - Parameter C(kind) is required to use this option.
+    - This parameter can be used with C(label_selectors) to restrict the resources to be deleted.
+    type: bool
+    default: false
+    version_added: 2.5.0
+    aliases:
+    - all
+  hidden_fields:
+    description:
+      - Hide fields matching this option in the result
+      - An example might be C(hidden_fields=[metadata.managedFields])
+      - Only field definitions that don't reference list items are supported (so V(spec.containers[0]) would not work)
+    type: list
+    elements: str
+    version_added: 2.5.0
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
   - "jsonpatch"
 """
@@ -257,10 +277,10 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
   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:
@@ -343,6 +363,14 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
     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 = r"""
@@ -394,10 +422,10 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule impo
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
     AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
-    WAIT_ARG_SPEC,
+    DELETE_OPTS_ARG_SPEC,
     NAME_ARG_SPEC,
     RESOURCE_ARG_SPEC,
-    DELETE_OPTS_ARG_SPEC,
+    WAIT_ARG_SPEC,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
     AnsibleK8SModule,
@@ -431,7 +459,7 @@ def argspec():
     argument_spec.update(copy.deepcopy(AUTH_ARG_SPEC))
     argument_spec.update(copy.deepcopy(WAIT_ARG_SPEC))
     argument_spec["merge_type"] = dict(
-        type="list", elements="str", choices=["json", "merge", "strategic-merge"]
+        type="list", elements="str", choices=["merge", "strategic-merge"]
     )
     argument_spec["validate"] = dict(type="dict", default=None, options=validate_spec())
     argument_spec["append_hash"] = dict(type="bool", default=False)
@@ -450,6 +478,8 @@ def argspec():
     argument_spec["server_side_apply"] = dict(
         type="dict", default=None, options=server_apply_spec()
     )
+    argument_spec["delete_all"] = dict(type="bool", default=False, aliases=["all"])
+    argument_spec["hidden_fields"] = dict(type="list", elements="str")
 
     return argument_spec
 

plugins/modules/k8s_cluster_info.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 module: k8s_cluster_info
 
-version_added: "0.11.1"
+version_added: 0.11.1
 
 short_description: Describe Kubernetes (K8s) cluster, APIs available and their respective versions
 
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_auth_options
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 
@@ -154,15 +154,15 @@ except ImportError:
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
+    AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
+)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
     AnsibleK8SModule,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
-    AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
-)
 
 
 def execute_module(module, client):

plugins/modules/k8s_cp.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module: k8s_cp
 
 short_description: Copy files and directories to and from pod.
 
-version_added: "2.2.0"
+version_added: 2.2.0
 
 author:
     - Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_auth_options
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
 
 options:
   namespace:
@@ -139,9 +139,18 @@ result:
 
 import copy
 
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
+    AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
+)
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.copy import (
+    K8SCopyFromPod,
+    K8SCopyToPod,
+    check_pod,
+)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
 )
@@ -155,16 +164,6 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.service import
     K8sService,
 )
 
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
-    AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
-)
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.copy import (
-    K8SCopyFromPod,
-    K8SCopyToPod,
-    check_pod,
-)
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
-
 
 def argspec():
     argument_spec = copy.deepcopy(AUTH_ARG_SPEC)

plugins/modules/k8s_drain.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ module: k8s_drain
 
 short_description: Drain, Cordon, or Uncordon node in k8s cluster
 
-version_added: "2.2.0"
+version_added: 2.2.0
 
 author: Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)
 
@@ -41,8 +41,18 @@ options:
       - The name of the node.
     required: true
     type: str
+  pod_selectors:
+    description:
+      - Label selector to filter pods on the node.
+      - This option has effect only when C(state) is set to I(drain).
+    type: list
+    elements: str
+    version_added: 2.5.0
+    aliases:
+    - label_selectors
   delete_options:
     type: dict
+    default: {}
     description:
       - Specify options to delete pods.
       - This option has effect only when C(state) is set to I(drain).
@@ -87,8 +97,8 @@ options:
             type: int
 
 requirements:
-  - python >= 3.6
-  - kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+  - python >= 3.9
+  - kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 """
 
 EXAMPLES = r"""
@@ -103,7 +113,7 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
     state: drain
     name: foo
     delete_options:
-        terminate_grace_period: 900
+      terminate_grace_period: 900
 
 - name: Mark node "foo" as schedulable.
   kubernetes.core.k8s_drain:
@@ -115,6 +125,13 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
     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 = r"""
@@ -128,8 +145,9 @@ result:
 import copy
 import time
 import traceback
-
 from datetime import datetime
+
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )
@@ -146,12 +164,10 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions imp
     CoreException,
 )
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
-
 try:
     from kubernetes.client.api import core_v1_api
-    from kubernetes.client.models import V1DeleteOptions, V1ObjectMeta
     from kubernetes.client.exceptions import ApiException
+    from kubernetes.client.models import V1DeleteOptions, V1ObjectMeta
 except ImportError:
     # ImportError are managed by the common module already.
     pass
@@ -328,6 +344,17 @@ class K8sDrainAnsible(object):
                     )
                 )
 
+    def list_pods(self):
+        params = {
+            "field_selector": "spec.nodeName={name}".format(
+                name=self._module.params.get("name")
+            )
+        }
+        pod_selectors = self._module.params.get("pod_selectors")
+        if pod_selectors:
+            params["label_selector"] = ",".join(pod_selectors)
+        return self._api_instance.list_pod_for_all_namespaces(**params)
+
     def delete_or_evict_pods(self, node_unschedulable):
         # Mark node as unschedulable
         result = []
@@ -350,12 +377,7 @@ class K8sDrainAnsible(object):
                 self.patch_node(unschedulable=False)
 
         try:
-            field_selector = "spec.nodeName={name}".format(
-                name=self._module.params.get("name")
-            )
-            pod_list = self._api_instance.list_pod_for_all_namespaces(
-                field_selector=field_selector
-            )
+            pod_list = self.list_pods()
             # Filter pods
             force = self._drain_options.get("force", False)
             ignore_daemonset = self._drain_options.get("ignore_daemonsets", False)
@@ -406,7 +428,6 @@ class K8sDrainAnsible(object):
         return dict(result=" ".join(result))
 
     def patch_node(self, unschedulable):
-
         body = {"spec": {"unschedulable": unschedulable}}
         try:
             self._api_instance.patch_node(
@@ -418,7 +439,6 @@ class K8sDrainAnsible(object):
             )
 
     def execute_module(self):
-
         state = self._module.params.get("state")
         name = self._module.params.get("name")
         try:
@@ -486,6 +506,11 @@ def argspec():
                     wait_sleep=dict(type="int", default=5),
                 ),
             ),
+            pod_selectors=dict(
+                type="list",
+                elements="str",
+                aliases=["label_selectors"],
+            ),
         )
     )
     return argument_spec

plugins/modules/k8s_exec.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ module: k8s_exec
 
 short_description: Execute command in Pod
 
-version_added: "0.10.0"
+version_added: 0.10.0
 
 author: "Tristan de Cacqueray (@tristanC)"
 
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_auth_options
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 
 notes:
@@ -131,27 +131,27 @@ except ImportError:
     # ImportError are managed by the common module already.
     pass
 
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.common import (
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
     AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
 )
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
-    AnsibleK8SModule,
-)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
 )
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
+    AnsibleK8SModule,
+)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
 
 try:
     from kubernetes.client.apis import core_v1_api
-    from kubernetes.stream import stream
     from kubernetes.client.exceptions import ApiException
+    from kubernetes.stream import stream
 except ImportError:
     # ImportError are managed by the common module already.
     pass
@@ -219,12 +219,6 @@ def execute_module(module, client):
     else:
         rc = int(err["details"]["causes"][0]["message"])
 
-    module.deprecate(
-        "The 'return_code' return key is being renamed to 'rc'. "
-        "Both keys are being returned for now to allow users to migrate their automation.",
-        version="4.0.0",
-        collection_name="kubernetes.core",
-    )
     module.exit_json(
         # Some command might change environment, but ultimately failing at end
         changed=True,

plugins/modules/k8s_info.py

@@ -38,10 +38,20 @@ options:
     description: List of label selectors to use to filter results
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
   field_selectors:
     description: List of field selectors to use to filter results
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
+  hidden_fields:
+    description:
+      - Hide fields matching any of the field definitions in the result
+      - An example might be C(hidden_fields=[metadata.managedFields])
+      - Only field definitions that don't reference list items are supported (so V(spec.containers[0]) would not work)
+    type: list
+    elements: str
+    version_added: 2.5.0
 
 extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_auth_options
@@ -49,8 +59,8 @@ extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_wait_options
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 
@@ -155,12 +165,12 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import
     AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
     WAIT_ARG_SPEC,
 )
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
-    AnsibleK8SModule,
-)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
 )
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
+    AnsibleK8SModule,
+)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
@@ -181,6 +191,7 @@ def execute_module(module, svc):
         wait_sleep=module.params["wait_sleep"],
         wait_timeout=module.params["wait_timeout"],
         condition=module.params["wait_condition"],
+        hidden_fields=module.params["hidden_fields"],
     )
     module.exit_json(changed=False, **facts)
 
@@ -196,6 +207,7 @@ def argspec():
             namespace=dict(),
             label_selectors=dict(type="list", elements="str", default=[]),
             field_selectors=dict(type="list", elements="str", default=[]),
+            hidden_fields=dict(type="list", elements="str"),
         )
     )
     return args

plugins/modules/k8s_json_patch.py

@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_wait_options
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
   - "jsonpatch"
 """
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ error:
 import copy
 import traceback
 
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.waiter import
     get_waiter,
 )
 
-
 try:
     from kubernetes.dynamic.exceptions import DynamicApiError
 except ImportError:

plugins/modules/k8s_log.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module: k8s_log
 
 short_description: Fetch logs from Kubernetes resources
 
-version_added: "0.10.0"
+version_added: 0.10.0
 
 author:
     - "Fabian von Feilitzsch (@fabianvf)"
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ options:
     - Only one of I(name) or I(label_selectors) may be provided.
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
   container:
     description:
     - Use to specify the container within a pod to grab the log from.
@@ -60,30 +61,30 @@ options:
     - A relative time in seconds before the current time from which to show logs.
     required: no
     type: str
-    version_added: '2.2.0'
+    version_added: 2.2.0
   previous:
     description:
     - If C(true), print the logs for the previous instance of the container in a pod if it exists.
     required: no
     type: bool
     default: False
-    version_added: '2.4.0'
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   tail_lines:
     description:
     - A number of lines from the end of the logs to retrieve.
     required: no
     type: int
-    version_added: '2.4.0'
+    version_added: 2.4.0
   all_containers:
     description:
     - If set to C(true), retrieve all containers' logs in the pod(s).
     - mutually exclusive with C(container).
     type: bool
-    version_added: '2.4.0'
+    version_added: 2.4.0
 
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 

plugins/modules/k8s_rollback.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 module: k8s_rollback
 short_description: Rollback Kubernetes (K8S) Deployments and DaemonSets
-version_added: "1.0.0"
+version_added: 1.0.0
 author:
     - "Julien Huon (@julienhuon)"
 description:
@@ -24,16 +24,18 @@ options:
     description: List of label selectors to use to filter results.
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
   field_selectors:
     description: List of field selectors to use to filter results.
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
 extends_documentation_fragment:
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_auth_options
   - kubernetes.core.k8s_name_options
 requirements:
-  - "python >= 3.6"
-  - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+  - "python >= 3.9"
+  - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
   - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 

plugins/modules/k8s_scale.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
-
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ options:
     description: List of label selectors to use to filter results.
     type: list
     elements: str
+    default: []
     version_added: 2.0.0
   continue_on_error:
     description:
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ options:
     version_added: 2.0.0
 
 requirements:
-    - "python >= 3.6"
-    - "kubernetes >= 12.0.0"
+    - "python >= 3.9"
+    - "kubernetes >= 24.2.0"
     - "PyYAML >= 3.11"
 """
 
@@ -150,14 +150,13 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (
     AUTH_ARG_SPEC,
-    RESOURCE_ARG_SPEC,
     NAME_ARG_SPEC,
+    RESOURCE_ARG_SPEC,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
@@ -169,15 +168,15 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions imp
     CoreException,
     ResourceTimeout,
 )
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.resource import (
+    create_definitions,
+)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.service import (
     diff_objects,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.waiter import (
     get_waiter,
 )
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.resource import (
-    create_definitions,
-)
 
 SCALE_ARG_SPEC = {
     "replicas": {"type": "int", "required": True},
@@ -390,7 +389,7 @@ def scale(
                 namespace=namespace,
             )
             if not success:
-                raise ResourceTimeout("Resource scaling timed out", **result)
+                raise ResourceTimeout("Resource scaling timed out", result)
 
     match, diffs = diff_objects(existing.to_dict(), result["result"])
     result["changed"] = not match

plugins/modules/k8s_service.py

@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ options:
     type: bool
 
 requirements:
-  - python >= 3.6
-  - kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+  - python >= 3.9
+  - kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 """
 
 EXAMPLES = r"""
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ result:
 """
 
 import copy
-
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
@@ -154,25 +153,24 @@ from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import
     COMMON_ARG_SPEC,
     RESOURCE_ARG_SPEC,
 )
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
-    AnsibleK8SModule,
-)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.client import (
     get_api_client,
 )
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.core import (
+    AnsibleK8SModule,
+)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.exceptions import (
     CoreException,
 )
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.service import (
-    K8sService,
-)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.resource import (
     create_definitions,
 )
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.runner import (
     perform_action,
 )
-
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.k8s.service import (
+    K8sService,
+)
 
 SERVICE_ARG_SPEC = {
     "apply": {"type": "bool", "default": False},

plugins/modules/k8s_taint.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = r"""
 module: k8s_taint
 short_description: Taint a node in a Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster
-version_added: "2.3.0"
+version_added: 2.3.0
 author: Alina Buzachis (@alinabuzachis)
 description:
     - Taint allows a node to refuse Pod to be scheduled unless that Pod has a matching toleration.
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ options:
         default: false
         type: bool
 requirements:
-  - python >= 3.6
-  - kubernetes >= 12.0.0
+  - python >= 3.9
+  - kubernetes >= 24.2.0
 """
 
 EXAMPLES = r"""
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ result:
 import copy
 
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
-
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.ansiblemodule import (
     AnsibleModule,
 )

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-kubernetes>=12.0.0
+kubernetes>=24.2.0
 requests-oauthlib
 jsonpatch

test-requirements.txt

@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ pytest
 pytest-xdist
 pytest-mock
 pytest-forked
+virtualenv
+pytest-ansible

tests/integration/targets/helm/defaults/main.yml

@@ -24,3 +24,5 @@ test_namespace:
   - "helm-local-path-003"
   - "helm-from-repository"
   - "helm-from-url"
+  - "helm-reuse-values"
+  - "helm-chart-with-space-into-name"

tests/integration/targets/helm/library/helm_test_pending.py

@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright: (c) 2023, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION = r"""
+---
+module: helm_test_pending
+short_description: created pending-install release
+author:
+  - Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)
+requirements:
+  - "helm (https://github.com/helm/helm/releases)"
+description:
+  - This module is used to create a pending install release for integration testing
+  - The scope of this module is the integration testing of the kubernetes.core collection only.
+options:
+  binary_path:
+    description:
+      - The path of a helm binary to use.
+    required: true
+    type: path
+  chart_ref:
+    description:
+      - chart reference on chart repository (e.g. my-repo/my-chart-ref)
+    required: true
+    type: str
+  chart_release:
+    description:
+      - Release name to manage.
+    required: true
+    type: str
+  chart_release_namespace:
+    description:
+      - Kubernetes namespace where the chart should be installed.
+    required: true
+    type: str
+"""
+
+EXAMPLES = r"""
+"""
+
+RETURN = r"""
+"""
+
+import json
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+
+
+class HelmReleaseNotFoundError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, message):
+        super().__init__(message)
+
+
+def create_pending_install_release(helm_binary, chart_ref, chart_release, namespace):
+    # create pending-install release
+    command = [
+        helm_binary,
+        "install",
+        chart_release,
+        chart_ref,
+        "--namespace",
+        namespace,
+        "--wait",
+    ]
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(command)
+    time.sleep(2)
+    proc.kill()
+    # ensure release status is pending-install
+    command = [
+        helm_binary,
+        "list",
+        "--all",
+        "--output=json",
+        "--namespace",
+        namespace,
+        "--filter",
+        chart_release,
+    ]
+    cmd = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    out, err = cmd.communicate()
+
+    data = json.loads(out)
+    if not data:
+        error = "Release %s not found." % chart_release
+        raise HelmReleaseNotFoundError(message=error)
+    return data[0]["status"] == "pending-install", data[0]["status"]
+
+
+def main():
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec=dict(
+            binary_path=dict(type="path", required=True),
+            chart_ref=dict(type="str", required=True),
+            chart_release=dict(type="str", required=True),
+            chart_release_namespace=dict(type="str", required=True),
+        ),
+    )
+
+    params = dict(
+        helm_binary=module.params.get("binary_path"),
+        chart_release=module.params.get("chart_release"),
+        chart_ref=module.params.get("chart_ref"),
+        namespace=module.params.get("chart_release_namespace"),
+    )
+
+    try:
+        result, status = create_pending_install_release(**params)
+        if not result:
+            module.fail_json(
+                msg="unable to create pending-install release, current status is %s"
+                % status
+            )
+        module.exit_json(changed=True, msg="Release created with status '%s'" % status)
+    except HelmReleaseNotFoundError as err:
+        module.fail_json(
+            msg="Error while trying to create pending-install release due to '%s'" % err
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

tests/integration/targets/helm/library/helm_test_version.py

@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ result:
 """
 
 import re
+
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.version import (
     LooseVersion,
 )
 
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-
 
 def main():
     module = AnsibleModule(

tests/integration/targets/helm/playbook.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+- connection: local
+  gather_facts: true
+  hosts: localhost
+
+  roles:
+  - helm

tests/integration/targets/helm/runme.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -eux
+export ANSIBLE_CALLBACKS_ENABLED=profile_tasks
+export ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=../
+ansible-playbook playbook.yaml "$@"

tests/integration/targets/helm/tasks/run_test.yml

@@ -25,12 +25,18 @@
     - from_repository
     - from_url
 
+- name: test helm upgrade with reuse_values
+  include_tasks: test_helm_reuse_values.yml
+
 - name: test helm dependency update
   include_tasks: test_up_dep.yml
 
 - name: Test helm uninstall
   include_tasks: test_helm_uninstall.yml
 
+- name: Test helm install with chart name containing space
+  include_tasks: test_helm_with_space_into_chart_name.yml
+
 # https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.kubernetes/issues/296
 - name: Test Skip CRDS feature in helm chart install
   include_tasks: test_crds.yml

tests/integration/targets/helm/tasks/test_helm_reuse_values.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+---
+- name: Test helm reuse_values
+  vars:
+    helm_namespace: "{{ test_namespace[9] }}"
+    chart_release_values:
+      replica:
+        replicaCount: 3
+      master:
+        count: 1
+        kind: Deployment
+    chart_reuse_values:
+      replica:
+        replicaCount: 1
+      master:
+        count: 3
+  block:
+    - name: Initial chart installation
+      helm:
+        binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+        chart_ref: redis
+        chart_repo_url: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
+        release_name: test-redis
+        release_namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+        create_namespace: true
+        release_values: "{{ chart_release_values }}"
+      register: install
+
+    - name: Get value set as string
+      helm_info:
+        binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+        release_name: test-redis
+        release_namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+      register: release_value
+
+    - name: Validate that chart values are as expected
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - install is changed
+          - '"--reuse-values=True" not in install.command'
+          - release_value["status"]["values"] == chart_release_values
+
+    - name: Upgrade chart using reuse_values=true
+      helm:
+        binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+        chart_ref: redis
+        chart_repo_url: https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
+        release_name: test-redis
+        release_namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+        reuse_values: true
+        reset_values: false
+        release_values: "{{ chart_reuse_values }}"
+      register: upgrade
+
+    - name: Get value set as string
+      helm_info:
+        binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+        release_name: test-redis
+        release_namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+      register: release_value
+
+    - name: Validate that chart values are as expected
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - upgrade is changed
+          - '"--reuse-values=True" in upgrade.command'
+          - '"--reset-values" not in upgrade.command'
+          - release_value["status"]["values"] == chart_release_values | combine(chart_reuse_values, recursive=true)
+
+  always:
+    - name: Remove helm namespace
+      k8s:
+        api_version: v1
+        kind: Namespace
+        name: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+        state: absent

tests/integration/targets/helm/tasks/test_helm_uninstall.yml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - vars:
     chart_source: "https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/releases/download/kube-state-metrics-helm-chart-2.13.3/kube-state-metrics-2.13.3.tgz"
     chart_name: "test-wait-uninstall"
+    chart_name_pending: "test-uninstall-pending-release"
     helm_namespace: "{{ test_namespace[1] }}"
   block:
 
@@ -64,6 +65,36 @@
       wait: yes
     register: uninstall
 
+  # Test uninstall chart release with 'pending-install' status
+  - name: Create chart release with 'pending-install' status
+    helm_test_pending:
+      binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+      chart_ref: "{{ chart_source }}"
+      chart_release: "{{ chart_name_pending }}"
+      chart_release_namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+
+  - name: Uninstall chart release with 'pending-install' status
+    helm:
+      binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+      release_name: "{{ chart_name_pending }}"
+      namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+      release_state: absent
+    register: _uninstall
+
+  - name: Get Helm release details
+    helm_info:
+      binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+      release_namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+      release_state: pending
+      release_name: "{{ chart_name_pending }}"
+    register: _info
+
+  - name: assert release does not exist anymore
+    assert:
+      that:
+      - _uninstall is changed
+      - _info.status is undefined
+
   always:
   - name: Delete temp directory
     file:

tests/integration/targets/helm/tasks/test_helm_with_space_into_chart_name.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+---
+- name: Create test directory
+  ansible.builtin.tempfile:
+    state: directory
+    suffix: .helm
+  register: test_dir
+
+- name: Test helm using directory with space
+  vars:
+    helm_dir: "{{ test_dir.path }}/Deploy Chart"
+    helm_namespace: "{{ test_namespace[10] }}"
+    chart_release_name: "deploy-chart-with-space-into-name"
+    helm_local_src: "test-chart"
+  block:
+    - name: Copy helm file into destination
+      ansible.builtin.copy:
+        src: "{{ helm_local_src }}"
+        dest: "{{ helm_dir }}"
+
+    - name: Install chart from local source with Space into name
+      helm:
+        binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+        name: "{{ chart_release_name }}"
+        chart_ref: "{{ helm_dir }}/{{ helm_local_src | basename }}"
+        namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+        create_namespace: true
+      register: install_chart
+
+    - name: Assert that chart is installed
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - install_chart is changed
+          - install_chart.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
+
+    - name: Check helm_info content
+      helm_info:
+        binary_path: "{{ helm_binary }}"
+        name: "{{ chart_release_name }}"
+        namespace: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+      register: chart_info
+
+    - name: Assert that Chart is installed (using helm_info)
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - chart_info.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
+
+  always:
+    - name: Delete temporary directory
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        state: absent
+        name: "{{ test_dir.path }}"
+
+    - name: Remove helm namespace
+      k8s:
+        api_version: v1
+        kind: Namespace
+        name: "{{ helm_namespace }}"
+        state: absent

tests/integration/targets/helm/tasks/tests_chart.yml

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
       assert:
         that:
           - install is changed
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
 
     - name: Check helm_info content
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
     - name: "Assert that {{ chart_test }} is installed from {{ source }} with helm_info"
       assert:
         that:
-          - content_info.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - content_info.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - content_info.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
           - release_state_content_info.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
 
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
       assert:
         that:
           - install is not changed
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
 
     - name: "Add vars to {{ chart_test }} from {{ source }}"
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
         that:
           - install is changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - "install.status['values'].revisionHistoryLimit == 0"
 
     - name: Check idempotency after adding vars
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
         that:
           - install is not changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - "install.status['values'].revisionHistoryLimit == 0"
 
     - name: "Remove Vars to {{ chart_test }} from {{ source }}"
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
         that:
           - install is changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - install.status['values'] == {}
 
     - name: Check idempotency after removing vars
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
         that:
           - install is not changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - install.status['values'] == {}
 
     - name: "Upgrade {{ chart_test }} from {{ source }}"
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
         that:
           - install is changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version_upgrade }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version_upgrade
 
     - name: Check idempotency after upgrade
       helm:
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
         that:
           - install is not changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version_upgrade }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version_upgrade
 
     - name: "Remove {{ chart_test }} from {{ source }}"
       helm:
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@
         that:
           - install is changed
           - install.status.status | lower == 'deployed'
-          - install.status.chart == "{{ chart_test }}-{{ chart_test_version }}"
+          - install.status.chart == chart_test+"-"+chart_test_version
           - "install.status['values'].revisionHistoryLimit == 0"
 
     - name: "Install {{ chart_test }} from {{ source }} with values_files (again)"
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
           - result is changed
           - result is not failed
           - result.rc == 0
-          - result.command is match("{{ helm_binary }} template {{ chart_source }}")
+          - result.command is match(helm_binary+" template "+chart_source)
 
     - name: Check templates created
       stat:
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
           - result is changed
           - result is not failed
           - result.rc == 0
-          - result.command is match("{{ helm_binary }} template MyRelease {{ chart_source }}")
+          - result.command is match(helm_binary+" template MyRelease "+chart_source)
           - result.stdout is search("ThisValue")
       when: chart_source is search("test-chart")
       # limit assertion of test result to controlled (local) chart_source

tests/integration/targets/helm_diff/files/test-chart-reuse-values/Chart.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+apiVersion: v2
+name: chart-reuse-values
+description: A Helm chart for Kubernetes
+
+# A chart can be either an 'application' or a 'library' chart.
+#
+# Application charts are a collection of templates that can be packaged into versioned archives
+# to be deployed.
+#
+# Library charts provide useful utilities or functions for the chart developer. They're included as
+# a dependency of application charts to inject those utilities and functions into the rendering
+# pipeline. Library charts do not define any templates and therefore cannot be deployed.
+type: application
+
+# This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
+# to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
+# Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
+version: 0.1.0
+
+# This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
+# incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
+# follow Semantic Versioning. They should reflect the version the application is using.
+# It is recommended to use it with quotes.
+appVersion: "1.16.0"

tests/integration/targets/helm_diff/files/test-chart-reuse-values/templates/configmap.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: cmap
+data:
+  ansible_version: {{ .Values.ansible_version }}
+  phase: {{ .Values.phase }}

tests/integration/targets/helm_diff/files/test-chart-reuse-values/values.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ansible_version: milestone
+phase: uat