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+author: "David Moreau Simard"
+categories:
+  - news
+tags:
+  - ansible
+date: 2019-06-04
+title: "Announcing the release of ARA Records Ansible 1.0"
+slug: announcing-the-release-of-ara-records-ansible-1.0
+type: post
+---
+
+After more than three years since the creation of the project, we are excited
+to announce that the version 1.0 of ARA Records Ansible is now available.
+
+This new release marks the deprecation of ARA 0.x and while full feature parity
+has not yet been achieved, we are moving forward and we will iterate to add
+missing features in future releases.
+
+## Main changes from ARA 0.x
+
+- The backend has been re-written from Flask to Django/Django-rest-framework
+- A new API as well as built-in API clients are available to record and query playbook results
+- The project's dependencies have been decoupled: the Ansible plugins, API backend and web interface can be installed independently from one another
+- The web interface has been re-written as a standalone project: [ara-web](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara-web)
+
+In summary, all the different components before 1.0, including the web interface,
+would communicate directly with the database model.
+
+After 1.0, these components communicate with the new REST API which results in
+easier development, maintenance and integration.
+
+# Want to try it out ?
+
+If you want a quick start, you can have a look at the
+[README](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/tree/feature/1.0#quickstart)
+or there is otherwise plenty of documentation available to get started:
+
+- [Frequently asked questions](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/faq.html)
+- [Installing ARA](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/installation.html)
+- [Configuring Ansible to use ARA](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/ansible-configuration.html)
+- [Configuring the ARA Ansible plugins](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/ara-plugin-configuration.html)
+- [Customizing the API server configuration](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/api-configuration.html)
+- [Setting up authentication and security considerations](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/api-security.html)
+- [API endpoint documentation and object relationships](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/api-documentation.html)
+- [How to use the API with the built-in API clients](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/api-usage.html)
+
+You might also want to take a look at ARA features such as
+[playbook names and labels](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/playbook-names-and-labels.html)
+and the [ara_record action module to record arbitrary data](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/ara-record.html).
+
+There are even built-in Ansible roles to help you set up an API server as well
+as the new web interface:
+
+- [ansible-role-ara-api](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/ansible-role-ara-api.html)
+- [ansible-role-ara-web](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/feature-1.0/ansible-role-ara-web.html)
+
+In fact, these roles are the ones used to deploy the live demos on
+[api.demo.recordsansible.org](https://api.demo.recordsansible.org/) and
+[web.demo.recordsansible.org](https://web.demo.recordsansible.org/):
+
+![live-demo-playbook](live-demo-playbook.png)
+
+You'll find the Ansible roles in the [source repository](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/tree/feature/1.0/roles).
+
+# What comes after 1.0
+
+In the near future, what is now the default master branch in the ara git
+repository will be relocated to stable/0.x and future dot releases to ARA 0.x,
+if necessary, will be tagged from that branch.
+
+The feature/1.0 branch will be relocated to the master branch and will be where
+development will happen moving forward.
+
+A similar switch will happen for the documentation on
+[ara.readthedocs.org](https://ara.readthedocs.org) where the default
+documentation will now be for 1.0 and the 0.x documentation will remain available.
+
+Afterwards, the plan is to keep iterating on ara as well as ara-web and resume
+a regular pace of release.
+
+# Questions ? Issues ? Feedback ?
+
+Please reach out !
+
+You can find us on [IRC and Slack](https://ara.recordsansible.org/community/)
+and issues are tracked on GitHub for both
+[ara](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues) and
+[ara-web](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara-web/issues).