Ability to exclude/ignore device from manage_devices

[DSpeichert]

The manage_devices is useful to delete extra interfaces that are not wanted.
However, there are some devices (e.g. lxc-net-bridge.cfg) that I don't want to configure using this module and I also don't want it to delete. There is currently no way to achieve that without turning off manage_devices.

[arBmind]

Yes, you are right in your observations.

Do you want to suggest a solution?

[DSpeichert]

I think we could change: https://github.com/dresden-weekly/ansible-network-interfaces/blob/develop/tasks/manage_devices.yml#L20

when: item not in network_configured_files

to:

when: item not in (network_configured_files | combine(network_ignored_interfaces | default([])))

Haven't tested that though.