All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
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Automate
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Platform
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Providers
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REST API
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User Interface (Classic)
- Add Replication excluded tables to the Settings Replication tab (#12604)
- Orchestration: Support hash values in dropdown orchestration dialog fields (#12570)
- Containers
- OpenStack: Add human readable names of private and public openstack cloud networks (#12855)
- Add settings key to disable console proxy (#12675)
- Separate Storage Managers By Type (#12399)
- Launch an URL returned by an automate button (#10118)
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Performance
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Platform
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REST API: Updating API versioning to 2.4.0-pre (#12890)
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Service UI
- Hid power status and buttons in the SUI Services list view until more performant manageiq-ui-service #368
- Add power status and buttons to the Service detail page ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-service #330
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SmartState analysis
- Containers deletion: Separate the pod deletion and skip it if no pod was created before (#12750)
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User Interface
- Reports: Better names for policy event sample reports (#12934)
Notable fixes include:
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Automate
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Platform
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Providers
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User Interface
- Prevent service dialog refreshing every time a dropdown item is selected (#12718)
- Fix angular controller for Network Router Network Router (#12707) and Cloud Subnet (#12706)
- Ansible: Add configuration_scripts to the list of trees with advanced search (#12704)
- RBAC: Add Storage Product Features for Adding Roles (#12701)
- Remove confirmation when opening the HTML5 vnc/spice console. (#12673)
- Set categories correctly for policy timelines (#12664)
- Display name of a chosen filter in Infrastructure Providers (#12307)
- Only enable git import submit button when a branch or tag is selected (#12753)
- Send notifications only when user is authorized to see the referenced object (#12771)
- Add tags to objects in list view in Cloud Tenant (#12833)
- Set start date explicitly only when changing schedule interval (#12816)
- Display parent tenant only when it is allowed by RBAC (#12848)
- Fix position of chart menu in C&U when clicking close to right edge (#12922) Fix missing Smart State Analysis button on Cloud Instances list view (#12559)
- Automate
- Git Support: Support automate model git repositories without domain directory
- Notification: Add global and tenant notification audiences
- Service Model
- Expose ems_events to Vm service model
- Expose a group's filters.
- Expose authentication_key in EMS service model
- Provisioning
- Set zone when deliver a service template provision task
- Create a request per region for VM reconfigure
- Services
- Expose service power state
- Platform
- High Availability: Raise event when failover successful
- Chargeback: Add daily to chargeback rate for 'per time' types
- Replication: Add logging when the replication set is altered
- Logging: Add configurable number of saved logfile rotations
- Providers
- Containers UI: Label based Auto-Tagging UI
- Middleware (Hawkular)
- Add support to overwrite an existing deployment
- Networks
- Nuage: UI for Network elements
- Add Network Topology button for the Load Balancer class
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
- Enable VM reconfigure disks for supported rhevm version
- Migrate support
- VMware vCloud: Event monitoring
- REST API
- Add IDs to Dialog Content
- Actions support
- Conditions support
- Support for /api/requests approve and deny actions
- Service Dialogs Copy API
- MiqPolicies support
- Service Request Delete
- SmartState: Support analysis of VMs residing on NFS41 datastores
- Performance
- For resource_pools only bring back usable Resource Pools
- Prune VM Tree folders first, so nodes can be properly prune and tree nodes can then be collapsed
- Remove full refresh from provisioning flow
- Platform
- Chargeback: Simplify Chargeback rates editor to only show relevant parameters
- Providers
- RHEVM: Make C&U Metrics Database a mandatory field for Validation
Notable fixes include:
- Automate
- Services: Set default value of param visible to true for all field types
- Git Domains for Automate: Ensure a response when git repository does not contain domains
- Platform
- Increase worker memory thresholds to avoid frequent restarts.
- Perform RBAC user filter check on requested ids before allowing request
- Providers
- Fix targeted refresh of a VM without its host clearing all folder relationships
- OpenStack Cloud
- Add logs for network and subnet CRUD
- UI: Add missing toolbar options for cloud tenants and host aggregates
- UI: Add missing add/remove hosts actions to host aggregate UI
- RHVM: Pass storage domains collection in disks RHV api request
- User Interface
- Internationalization: i18n support in pdf reports
- Fix custom logo issue in header
- Routing Error for reload on infrastructure networking
- Add Advanced Search to Containers explorer
- Fall-"back" to VMRC desktop client if no NPAPI plugin is available
- Displays a more informative message on datasource deletion.
- Display Advanced Search in Configuration management
- Allow the retirement date to be cleared
- Default Filters can be saved or reset
- Automate
- Reset domain priorities at startup and restore
- Set default entry points for non-generic catalog items
- Model: Schema change for Cloud Orchestration Retirement class
- Automation method that will choose VDC networks available in the given cloud provider
- Provisioning
- Show shared networks in the OpenStack provisioning dialog
- Reconnect orchestration stack with its template at post-provisioning
- Domain Import
- Rake task to import an Automate Model stored in a Git Repository
- Allow for setting up self signed certificate in Import Screen
- REST API Git refresh and import
- Route the REST API import call to the correct server with the Git Owner Server role
- Added Automate $evm.create_notification method
- Retirement
- Allow VM's with unknown power state to retire.
- Allow archived/orphaned VM's to retire
- Added checks and logging for amazon retirement
- Service Model
- Added cinder backup/restore actions
- RBAC for service models
- Scheduling Automate Tasks via the rails console
- Platform
- Configure kerberos to do dns_lookups for external authentication
- Add additional cloud objects to RBAC filter
- Chargeback
- Add Vm Guid to report fields for ChargebackVm reports
- Enable custom attributes for chargeback reports
- Add monthly/hourly/weekly in rates for 'per time' types
- Calculation changes taking into account averages and maximums per selected interval in report(monthly, weekly, daily)
- Logging: Add the ability to use a different disk for storing log files
- Tenancy: Introduce service for sharing resources across tenants
- Providers
- Allow Vm to show floating and fixed ip addresses
- Containers
- Persist Container Templates
- UI: Add Container Templates
- Google Compute Engine: Support for parsing Google health checks during refresh
- OpenStack
- Cloud
- UI: Cloud volume backup
- CRUD for OpenStack Cloud tenants
- Enable Image Snapshots
- CRUD for OpenStack Host Aggregates
- Infra
- Enable node start and stop
- Node destroy deletes node from Ironic
- Add Ironic Controls
- Set boot image for registered hosts
- Cloud
- Storage: Cinder backup
- REST API
- Service power operations
- Add custom attributes to provider
- Service Dialog Create
- Support for /api/requests creation and edits
- SmartState: Add /etc/redhat-access-insights/machine-id to the sample VM analysis profile
- User Interface
- Dashboard view for Infrastructure views
- Conversion of Middleware Provider form to Angular
- Add human name for Google & Azure load balancers
- Ability to get to details of Ansible jobs
- Add UI for generating authorization keys for remote regions
- Disable tenant edit from cloud tenant mapping
- Topology for Cloud Manager
- Topology for Infra provider
- Performance
- Speed up RBAC when no vm in tree in Virtual Machine Explorer
- Speed-up lookup for min/max storage_used metric
- Add option to hide VMs in trees
- Platform: Set appliance "system" memory/swap information
- Providers
- Google Cloud Platform: Use standard health states
- Microsoft SCVMM: Set default security protocol to ssl
- Network: Use RESTful routes
Notable fixes include:
- Automate
- Broken ordering ae_domains for a root tenant.
- Model: Added missing ServiceTemplateProvisionRequest_denied and ServiceTemplateProvisionRequest_pending instances so that Denied Service requests will properly generate emails.
- Validate user roles against domain edit before allowing copy/edit on any objects under it
- Provisioning: Stop appending the
_character as part of the enforced VM naming. - Fixed case where user can't add alerts.
- Fixed issue where alerts don't send SNMP v1 traps
- Platform
- Chargeback: Fix Group by tag in chargeback report
- Replication
- Add repmgr tables to replication excludes
- Don't consider tables that are always excluded during the schema check
- Fixed bug in settings/access control where tenants from remote regions are displayed in the tenant list view and in the tenant selection when adding/editing a group
- Providers
- Containers: Ability to add a container provider with a port other than 8443
- Azure: Show 'Memory (MB)' chart for azure instance
- Hawkular UI: Domain mode server has different operations than normal standalone server
- User Interface
- Enable Provision VMs button via relationships
- Missing reset button for Job Template Service Dialog
- Display the number of access control elements based on user permission
- Rebuild timeline options when Apply button is pressed
- Automate
- Provisioning
- Filter networks and floating_ips for OpenStack provisioning
- Added Google pre and post provisioning methods
- Enabled support for vApp provisioning service
- Backend support to enable VMware provisioning through selection of a DRS-enabled cluster instead of a host
- Set VM storage profile in provisioning
- Services
- Log properly dynamic dialog field script error
- Back-end support for Power Operations on Services
- Service Items: Pass start/stop commands to associated resources.
- Service Bundles: Honor bundle resource configuration for start/stop actions
- Added top_level_namespace to miq_ae_namespace model to support filtering for pluggable providers
- Created service_connections table to support connecting services together along with metadata
- Generic Objects
- Process Generic Object method call via automate
- Methods content stored in Automate
- Generic Object Definition model contains the method name only (Parameters defined in automate)
- Methods can return data to caller
- Methods can be overridden by domain ordering
- Provisioning
- Platform
- Centralized Administration
- VM power operations
- VM retirement
- Leverages new ManageIQ API Client gem
- Chargeback
- Generate monthly report for a Service Instance method on Service class
- Daily schedule generates report for each Service
- Enables SUI display of Service costs over last 30 days
- Containers
- Added image tag names for Containers in vim performance state.
- Added a 'fixed_compute_metric' column to chargeback
- Added rate assigning by tags to container images
- Chargeback vm group by tag
- Notifications
- Dynamic substitution in notification messages
- Generate for Lifecycle events
- Tenancy
- Mapping Cloud Tenants to ManageIQ Tenants
- Prevent deleting mapped tenants from cloud provider
- Added checkbox "Tenant Mapping Enabled" to Openstack Manager
- Ad hoc sharing of resources across tenants
- Backend modeling completed
- Implementation in progress
- Mapping Cloud Tenants to ManageIQ Tenants
- Centralized Administration
- Providers
- Core
- Override default http proxy
- Default reasons for supported features
- Known features are discoverable
- Every known feature is unsupported by default
supports :reboot_guest
- Generate a csv of features supported across all models
- Containers
- Allow policies to prevent Container image scans
- Chargeback rates based on container image tags
- Keep pod-container relationship after disconnection
- Google Compute Engine: Load Balancer refresh
- Middleware (Hawkular)
- Change labels in middleware topology
- Added "Server State" into Middleware Server Details
- Enabled search for Middleware entities
- Users can add Middleware Datasources and JDBC Drivers
- Metrics for JMS Topics and Queues
- Microsoft Cloud (Azure)
- Load Balancer inventory collection for Azure
- Pagination support in armrest gem
- Microsoft Infrastructure (SCVMM)
- Set CPU sockets and cores per socket
- Network
- Nuage policy groups added
- Load balancer service type actions for reconfigure, retirement, provisioning
- UI for creating subnets
- OpenStack
- Add hardware state for Hosts
- Map Flavors to Cloud Tenants during Openstack Cloud refresh
- Cinder backup/restore actions added to model
- UI to register Ironic nodes through Mistral
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Report manufacturer and product info for RHEVM hosts
- Storage
- New Swift Storage Manager
- New Cinder Storage Manager
- Initial User Interface support for Storage Managers
- VMware Cloud
- Cloud orchestration stack operation: Create and delete stack
- Collect virtual datacenters as availability zones
- Event Catcher
- VMware Infrastructure: Datastores are filtered by Storage Profiles in provisioning
- Core
- REST API
- Version bumped to 2.3.0 in preparation for Euwe release
- New /api/automate primary collection
- Enhanced to return additional product information for the About modal
- Bulk queries now support referencing resources by attributes
- Added ability to delete one’s own notifications
- Publish Blueprint API
- Update Blueprint API to store bundle info in ui_properties
- CRUD for Service create and orchestration template
- Api for refreshing automate domain from git
- Allow compressed IDs in resource references
- Service UI
- Create picture
- Generic requests OPTION method
- Delete dialogs API
- Updated the “update” API for blueprints to be more efficient
- Cockpit integration
- Added About modal
- SmartState
- Containers: Settings for proxy environment variables
- User Interface
- Add GUID validation for certain Azure fields in Cloud Provider screen
- OpenStack: Register new Ironic nodes through Mistral
- Timelines resdesigned
- vSphere Distributed Switches tagging
- Patternfly Labels for OpenSCAP Results
- Operations UI Notifications
- Automate:
- Changed Automate import to enable system domains
- Google schema changes in Cloud Provision Method class
- Performance: Do not reload miq server in tree builder
- Providers: vSphere Host storage device inventory collection improvements
- REST API: Update API CLI to support the HTTP OPTIONS method.
- User Interface
- Updated PatternFly to v3.11.0
- Summary Screen styling updates
Notable fixes include:
- Automate
- Fixed problem with request_pending email method
- Set User.current_user in Automation Engine to fix issue where provisioning resources were not being assigned to the correct tenant
- Platform
- Use correct adjustment in chargeback reports
- Replication: Fix typo prevention full error message
- Tenancy: User friendly tenant names
- Providers
- Openstack: Catch unauthorized exception in refresh
- Middleware: Fix operation timeout parameter fetch
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Access VM Cluster relationship correctly
- Provisioning: VMware Infrastructure: sysprep_product_id field is no longer required
- REST API
- API: Fix creation of Foreman provider
- Ensure api config references only valid miq_product_features
- SmartState: Update logging and job error message when getting the service account for Containers
- User Interface
- Add missing Searchbar and Advanced Search button
- Containers: Download to PDF/CSV/Text - don't download deleted containers
- Allow bring VM out of retirement from detail page
- Inconsitent menues in Middleware Views
- Save Authentication status on a Save
- User friendly tenant names
- RBAC:List only those VMs that the user has access to in planning
- Automate
- Import Rake task
OVERWRITEargument: SettingOVERWRITE=trueremoves the target domain prior to import - New
extend_retires_onmethod: Used by Automate methods to set a retirement date to specified number of days from today, or from a future date. - Service model updates
- MiqAeServiceHardware
- MiqAeServicePartition
- MiqAeServiceVolume
- Import Rake task
- Platform
- Centralized Administration
- Server to server authentication
- Invoke tasks on remote regions
- Leverage new API client (WIP)
- Chargeback
- Support for generating chargeback for services
- Will be used in Service UI for showing the cost of a service
- Database Maintenance
- Hourly reindex: High Churn Tables
- Periodic full vacuum
- Configure in appliance console
- Notification Backend
- Model for asynchronous notifications
- Authentication token generation for web sockets
- API for notification drawer
- PostgreSQL High Availability
- DB Cluster - Primary, Standbys
- Uses repmgr (replication)
- Failover
- Primary to Standby
- Appliance connects to new primary DB
- Tenancy: Mapping Cloud Tenants to ManageIQ Tenants
- Post refresh hook on OpenStack provider
- Create provider base tenant under a root tenant
- Cloud Tenant tree generated under provider base tenant
- Create / Update / Delete
- Centralized Administration
- Providers
- Containers
- Reports: Pods for images per project, Pods per node
- Deployment wizard
- Google Compute Engine: Provision Preemptible VMs
- Hawkular
- JMS support (entities, topology)
- Reports for Transactions (in App servers)
- Support micro-lifecycle for Middleware-deployments
- Middleware provider now uses restful routes
- Microsoft Azure
- Handle new events: Create Security Group, VM Capture
- Provider-specific logging
- Networking
- Allow port ranges for Load Balancers
- Load Balancer user interface
- OpenStack
- Collect inventory for cloud volume backups
- Show topology for undercloud
- Associate/Disassociate Floating IPs
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Get Host OS version and type
- Disk Management in VM Reconfigure
- VMware: Filter Storage by Profile
- vCloud
- Collect status of vCloud Orchestration Stacks
- Add Network Manager
- Collect networking inventory
- Containers
- REST API
- Token manager supports for web sockets
- Added querying for cockpit support
- Added support for Bulk queries
- Added support for UI notification drawer
- API entrypoint returns details about the appliance via server_info
- Blueprint updates now supports removal of the Service Catalog or Service Dialog from a Blueprint
- Service Broker: Service UI (name change from Self Service UI)
- Renamed due to expanding number of use cases
- Adding in Arbitration Rules UI
- User Interface
- Added mandatory Subscription field to Microsoft Azure Discovery screen
- Added Notifications Drawer and Toast Notifications List
- Added support for vSphere Distributed Switches
- Added support to show child/parent relations of Orchestration Stacks
- Added Middleware Messaging entities to topology chart
- Automate: Description for Datastore Reset action now includes list of target domains
- Performance
- Page rendering
- Compute -> Infrastructure -> Virtual Machines: 9% faster, 32% fewer rows tested on 3k active vms and 3k archived vms
- Services -> My Services: 60% faster, 98% fewer queries, 32% fewer db rows returned
Ownershipmixin- Filtering now done in SQL
- 99.5% faster (93.8s -> 0.5s) testing
- VMs / All VMs / VMs I Own
- VMs / All VMs / VMs in My LDAP Group
- Page rendering
- User Interface: Dynatree replaced with bootstrap-treeview
- Automate
- Enhanced messaging for provisioning: Displayed elements
- ManageIQ Server name
- Name of VM/Service being provisioned
- Current Automate state machine step
- Status message
- Provision Task Message
- Retry count (when applicable)
- New method
taggable?to programmatically determine if a Service Model class or instance is taggable. - Generic Objects: Model updates
- Associations
- Tagging
- Service Methods:
add_to_service / remove_from_service
- Git Automate support
- Branch/Tag support
- Contents are locked and can be copied to other domains for editing
- Editable properties
- Enabled/Disabled
- Priority
- Removal of Domain
- Dedicated Server Role to store the repository
- Enhanced messaging for provisioning: Displayed elements
- Platform
- PostgreSQL High Availability
- Primary/Standby DB config in Appliance Console
- Database-only appliance config in Appliance Console
- Failover Monitor
- Tenancy
- Groundwork in preparation for supporting multiple entitlements
- ApplicationHelper#role_allows and User#role_allows? combined and moved to RBAC
- Post refresh hook to queue mapping of Cloud Tenants
- Database maintenance scripts added to appliance
- PostgreSQL High Availability
- Providers
- Containers: Models for container deployments
- Google Compute Engine
- Preemptible Instances
- Retirement support
- Hawkular
- Alerts
- Link miq alerts and hawkular events on the provider
- Convert ManageIQ alerts/profiles to hawkular group triggers/members of group triggers
- Sync the provider when ManageIQ alerts and alert profiles are created/updated
- Alerts
- Added entities: Domains and Server Groups including their visualization in topology
- Datasource entity now has deletion operation
- Support more event types for datasource and deployment
- Cross linking to VMs added to topology
- Microsoft Azure: Added memory and disk utilization metrics
- OpenStack
- Host Aggregates
- Region Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Snapshot support
- VMware vSphere: Storage profiles
- REST API
- Support for compressed ids in inbound requests
- CRUD support for Arbitration Rules
- Service Broker
- Service Designer: Blueprint API is 90% done, edit and publish are still in development
- Arbitration Profiles
- Collection of pre-defined settings
- Work in conjunction with the Arbitration Engine
- Rules Engine: API completed
- SmartState: Deployed new MiqDiskCache module for use with Microsoft Azure
- Scan time reduced from >20 minutes to <5 minutes
- Microsoft Azure backed read requests reduced from >7000 requests to <1000
- User Interface
- I18n support for UI plugins
- Arbitration Profiles management for Service Broker
- Re-check Authentication button added to Provider list views
- Provisioning button added to the Templates & Images list and summary screens
- Subtype option added to Generic Catalog Items
- About modal added to OPS UI
- Performance: Page rendering performance
- Services -> Workloads -> All VMs page load time reduced from 93,770ms to 524ms (99%) with a test of 20,000 VMs
- Platform
- Upgrade ruby 2.2.5 to 2.3.1
- Configure Rails web server - Puma or Thin
- Puma is still the default
- Planning on adding additional servers
Notable fixes include:
- Microsoft Azure: Fix proxy for template lookups
- VMware vSphere: Block duplicate events
- REST API
- Hide internal Tenant Groups from /api/groups
- Raise 403 Forbidden for deleting read-only groups
- API Request logging
- Automate
- Simulation: RBAC filtering applied to Object Attributes
- Service Provisioning: Exposed number_of_vms when building the provision request for a service
- Service Dialogs: Support for “visible” flag for dynamic fields
- Expose Compliance and ComplianceDetail models
- New associations on VmOrTemplate and Host models:
expose :compliancesexpose :last_compliance
- New Service Models
- Compliance:
expose :compliance_details - ComplianceDetail:
expose :compliance,expose :miq_policy
- Compliance:
- Generic Object: Service models created for GenericObject and GenericObjectDefinition
- Platform
- PostgreSQL High Availability
- Added repmgr to support automatic failover
- Maintain list of active standby database servers
- Added pg-dsn_parser for converting DSN to a hash
- Tenancy: Added parent_id to CloudTenant as prerequisite for mapping OpenStack tenants to ManageIQ tenants
- Watermark reports updated to be based on max of daily max value instead of max of average value
- Nice values added to worker processes
- PostgreSQL High Availability
- Providers
- Google Compute Engine: Metrics
- Hawkular
- Operations: Add Deployment, Start/stop deployment
- Performance reports for datasources
- Collect more metrics for datasource
- Kubernetes: Cross-linking with OpenStack instances
- Microsoft Azure: Support floating IPs during provisioning
- Nuage: Inventory of Managed Cloud Subnets
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: v4 API
- VMware vSphere: Storage Profiles modeling and inventory
- VMware vCloud: Initial PRs for modeling and inventory
- REST API
- Support for arbitrary resource paths
- Work started on ManageIQ API Client
- Support for Arbitration Profiles
- Support for Cloud Networks queries
- Support for Arbitration Settings
- Updated /api/users to support edits of user settings
- User Interface
- Both UIs updated to latest PatternFly and Angular PatternFly
- Self Service UI language selections separated from Operations UI
- Internationalization
- Virtual Columns
- Toolbars
- Removed string interpolation (for better localization)
- Changed to use gettext’s pluralization
- Ansible Tower Jobs moved to the Configuration tab (from Clouds/Stacks)
- Interactivity added to C3 charts on C&U screens
- Automate
- Simulation: Updated defaults
- Entry-point:
/System/Process/Request(Previous value of “Automation”) - Execute Method: Enabled
- Entry-point:
- Infrastructure Provision: Updated memory values for VM provisioning dialogs to 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 32 GB
- Simulation: Updated defaults
- Performance: Reduced the time and memory required to schedule Capacity and Utilization data collection.
- Platform: Expression refactoring and cleanup with relative dates and times
- Providers: Hawkular
- Upgrade of Hawkular gem to 2.3.0
- Skip unreachable middleware providers when reporting
- Add re-checking authentication status functionality/button
- User Interface
- Converted to TreeBuilder - Snapshot, Policy, Policy RSOP, C&U Build Datastores and Clusters/Hosts, Automate Results
- CodeMirror version updated (used for text/yaml editors)
- Platform
- Removed rubyrep
- Removed hourly checking of log growth and rotation if > 1gb
- User Interface: Explorer Presenter RJS removal
- Automate
- Service resolution based on Provision Order
- Added /System/Process/MiqEvent instance
- Added Provider refresh call to Amazon retire state machine in Pre-Retirement state
- Service Dialogs: Added ‘Visible’ flag to all dialog fields
- Class Schema allows for EMS, Host, Policy, Provision, Request, Server, Storage, and VM(or Template) datatypes
- Value is id of the objects
- If object is not found, the attribute is not defined.
- Null Coalescing Operator
- Multiple String values separated by “||”
- Evaluated on new attribute data type “Null Coalescing”
- Order dependent, left to right evaluation
- First non-blank value is used
- Skip and warn about missing objects
- Platform: Custom attributes support in reporting and expressions
- Selectable as a column
- Usable in report filters and charts
- Providers
- Amazon: Public Images Filter
- Networking
- Separate Google Network Manager
- NFV: VNFD Templates and VNF Stacks
- Hawkular
- Deployment entity operations: Undeploy, redeploy
- Server operations: Reload, suspend, resume
- Live metrics for datasources and transactions
- Performance reports for middleware servers
- Support for alert profiles and alert automated expressions for middleware server
- Crosslink middleware servers with RHEV VMs
- Collect and display deployment status
- Datasources topology view
- REST API
- Support for report schedules
- Support for approving or denying service requests
- Support for OpenShift Container Deployments
- Support for Virtual Templates
- Service Broker
- Started work on Service Broker to allow ManageIQ to select VM for you based on criteria (cloud, cost, or performance)
- Added API backend for Resourceless Servers
- Added datastore for the default settings for resourceless servers
- SmartState: Generalized disk LRU caching module
- Caching module can be used by any disk module, eliminating duplication.
- Can be inserted “higher” in the IO path.
- Configurable caching parameters (memory vs performance)
- Will be employed to address Azure performance and throttling issues.
- Other disk modules converted over time.
- User Interface
- Settings moved to top right navigation header
- C3 Charts fully implemented - chart interaction coming soon!
- Tagging for Ansible Tower job templates
- Live Search added to bootstrap selects
- Self Service UI Order History with detail
- Automate: Generic Object: Model refactoring/cleanup, use PostgreSQL jsonb column
- Performance
- Capacity and Utlization improvements included reduced number of SQL queries and number of objects
- Improved tag processing for Alert Profiles
- UI Performance: specific pages targeted resulted in up to 98% reduction in rendering for those pages
- Platform: PostgreSQL upgraded to 9.5 needed for HA feature
- Providers:
- Pluggability: Began extraction of Amazon Provider into separate repository
- Hawkular
- Upgraded to hawkular gem version 2.2.1
- Refactor infrastructure for easier configuration
- Ansible: Automate method updated to pass JobTemplate “Extra Variables” defined in the Provision Task
- User Interface
- Default Filters tree converted to TreeBuilder - more on the way
- Cloud Key Pair form converted to AngularJS (Dana - UX team)
- Toolbars:Cleaned up partials, YAML -> classes
- Provider Forms: Credentials Validation improvements
- Providers
- Ansible Tower
- Collect Job parameters during Provider Refresh
- Log Ansible Tower Job output when deployment fails
- Containers: Limit number of concurrent SmartState Analyses
- OpenStack
- Cleanup of Nova services after scale down
- Prevent retired instances from starting
- Hawkular
- Added missing fields in UI to improve user experience
- Middleware as top level menu item
- Default view for Middleware is datasource
- Ansible Tower
- Platform: Appliance Console
- Limited menu when running inside a container
- Removed menu items that are not applicable when running inside a container
- Automate
- Engine: Allow arguments in method calls during substitution
- Policy: Built-in policy to prevent retired VM from starting on a resume power operation
- Service Model: Expose provision_priority value
- Retirement: Restored retirement logic to verify that VM was provisioned or contains Lifecycle tag before processing
- Added lifecycle tag as a default tag
- Providers: Pluggability
- Ask, Don't Assume
- Remove provider specific constants
- Ask whether provider supports VM architecture instead of assuming support by provider type
- Ask, Don't Assume
- Platform
- Performance: Lazy load message catalogs for faster startup and reduced memory
- Replication: Added "deprecated" in replication worker screen (Rubyrep replication will be removed in Euwe release)
- Testing: Support for running tests in parallel
- REST API
- Documentation version is 2.2 for Darga
- Updated /api entrypoint so collection list is sorted
Notable fixes include:
- Providers
- Hawkular: Fixes for LiveMetrics
- VMware: Fix for adding multiple disks
- REST API: API CLI moved to tools/rest_api.rb
- Providers: Hawkular
- Test additions for topology
- Optimization and enhancement of event fetching
[Removed](https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/issues?q=milestone%3A%22Sprint+41+Ending+May+30%2C+2016%22+label%3A"technical debt")
- REST API: gems/cfme_client removed
- REST API
- Post Darga versioning updated to v2.3.0-pre
- Added GET role identifiers
- Platform
- Tenancy: Splitting MiqGroup, Part 2
- Filters moved to to Entitlement model
- Enabler for sharing entitlements
- MiqExpression Refactoring
- Tenancy: Splitting MiqGroup, Part 2
-
Ansible Tower added as Configuration Management Provider
- Modeling for AnsibleTowerJob
- Support for launching JobTemplates with a limit. (Target specific system)
- Modeling for Provider, Configuration Manager, and Configured Systems
- Provider connection logic
- Support refresh of Configured Systems
wait_for_ipmethod added to state-machine- ansible_tower_client gem
- Credential validation
- Supported resources: Hosts, JobTemplates, Adhoc commands
- Support for generating Service Dialogs from Ansible Tower JobTemplate
- Support for setting Ansible Tower JobTemplate variables through dialog options and automate methods
-
Switchboard events for OpenStack
- New Events: compute.instance.reboot.end, compute.instance.reset.end, compute.instance.snapshot.start
- Policy Event updates: compute.instance.snapshot.end, compute.instance.suspend
-
Service Model
- Added “networks” relationship to Hardware model
- Support where method, find_by, and find_by!
- Azure VM retirement modeling added
- Storage: Added storage_clusters association
- Openstack::NetworkManager::Network
- cloud_subnets
- network_routers
- public_networks
- Openstack Event compute.instance.power_on.end: added Policy event for vm_start
-
Services
- Added instances/methods to generate emails for consolidated quota (Denied, Pending, Warning)
- Enhanced Dialogs validation at build time to check tabs, and boxes in addition to fields.
-
Modeling changes
- quota_source_type moved into instance
- Added Auto-Approval/Email to VM Reconfigure
- Default Retirement state-machine behavior changed to retain record (historical data)
- Enhance state-machine fields to support methods
-
New model for Generic Object
-
New service model Account
-
SSUI: Support dialogs with dynamic fields
-
Simulate UI support for state machine retries
-
New script to rebuild provision requests
- Reconstructs the parameters of an existing provision request so that request can be resubmitted through a REST API or Automate call.
- Chargeback
- Able to assign rates to tenants
- Can generate reports by tenant
- Currencies added to rates
- Rate tiers
- Authentication
- Appliance Console External Auth updated to also work with 6.x IPA Servers
- SAML Authentication (verified with KeyCloak 1.8)
- External Authentication with IPA: Added support for top level domains needed in test environments
- Configuration Revamp
- Relies heavily on the config gem
- New classes Settings and Vmdb::Settings
VMDB::Configis deprecatedconfig/*.tmpl.yml->config/settings.yml- Locally override with
config/settings.local.ymlorconfig/settings/development.local.yml
- Replication (pglogical)
- Replacement of rubyrep with pglogical
- New MiqPglogical class: provides generic functionality for remote and global regions
- New PglogicalSubscription model: Provides global region functionality as an ActiveRecord model
- Global and Remote regions instead of Master and subordinate
- Replication enabled on remote regions
- Remote regions subscribed to on Global Region
- Replication Database Schema
- Column order is important for pglogical
- Regional and Global DBs MUST have identical schemas
- Migrations must have timestamp later than the last migration of previous version for correct column order
- Specs added to validate schema
- See New Schema Specs for New Replication
- Schema consistency checking - during configuration and before subscription is enabled
- Tool to fix column order mismatches
- Appliance Console
- Ability to reset database
- Ability to create region in external database
- Added alias 'ap' as shortcut for appliance_console
- Updates for external authentication settings
- Shopping cart model for ordering services
- Consumption_administrator role with chargeback/reporting duties
- Expresions: refactor SQL for all operators now build with Arel
- New provider types
- Middleware
- Networking
- Amazon as a pluggable provider: almost completed
- Containers
- Reports
- Linking registries with services
- Bug fixes and UI updates
- Network Trends, Heat Maps, Donuts
- Chargeback
- SmartState extended with OpenSCAP support
- Policies
- Cloud Cross Linking
- Pod Network Metrics
- Persistent Volume Claims
- Seed for policies, policy sets, policy contents and conditions
- Auto-tagging from kubernetes labels (backend only)
- MiqAction to annotate container images as non-secure at
- Multiple endpoint support OpenShift
- Google Compute Engine
- Inventory
- Power Operations
- Provisioning
- Events
- Better OS identification for VMs
- Allow custom flavors
- Hawkular
- First Middleware provider
- Inventory and topology
- Event Catcher and power operations to reload and stop Middleware servers
- Capacity and Utilization collected live on demand without need for Cap and U workers
- Links to provider and entity in event popups on Timelines
- Ability to configure default views
- New Datasource entity (UI and Backend only)
- Microsoft Azure
- Http proxy support
- Provisioning
- Subscriptions and Events
- Rely on resource location, metrics
- Microsoft SCVMM
- Inventory Performance improvements
- Ability to delete VMs
- VMware
- Read-only datastores
- Clustered datastores
- Add/remove disk methods for reconfigure
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Targeted refresh process
- Red Hat OpenStack
- Instance Evacuation
- Better neutron modeling
- Ceilometer events
- cleanup SSL support
- VM operations
- Memory metrics
- Image details
- API over SSL
- Integration feaures
- Backend support for Live VM Migration
- Backend support for VM resize
- Support for Cinder and Glance v2
- Enable / Disable cloud services
- Make Keystone V3 Domain ID Configurable
- File upload for SSH keypair
- Add volumes during provisioning
- Evacuating instances
- Continued work on Multi-endpoint modeling
- Generic Targeted refresh process
- New providers able to be provisioned
- Google Compute Engine
- Microsoft Azure
- Services Back End
- Service Order (Cart) created for each Service Request based on current user and tenant.
- VMware
- Clustered Datastores in Provisioning
- Distributed Switches referenced from database during provisioning workflow
- Google Compute Engine: Added Google Auto-Placement methods
- Enhanced filtering to use MiqExpression
- Enhanced API to include Role identifiers for collections and augmented the authorization hash in the entrypoint to include that correlation
- Added support for Service Reconfigure action
- Added new service orders collection and CRUD operations
- Actions for instances: stop, start, pause, suspend, shelve, reset, reboot guest
- Actions provided to approve or deny provision requests
- Ability to delete one’s own authenticated token
- Added primary collection for Instances.
- Added terminate action for instances.
- Ability to filter string equality/inequality on virtual attributes.
- For SSUI, ability to retrieve user’s default language and support for Dynamic Dialogs.
- Support for Case insensitive sorting
- Adding new VM actions
- Authentication: Option to not extend a token’s TTL
- CRUD for Tenant quotas
- Support for /api/settings
- Added support for Shopping Carts
- Automation Requests approve and deny actions
- Microsoft SCVMM: new
- Virtual hard disks residing on Hyper-V servers
- VHD, and newer VHDX disk formats
- Snapshotted disks
- Same filesystems as other providers
- Support for network-mounted HyperV virtual disks and performance improvements (HyperDisk caching)
- Microsoft Azure: new
- Azure-armrest: added offset/length blob read support.
- Added AzureBlobDisk module for MiqDisk.
- Implemented MiqAzureVm subclass of MiqVm.
- Testing: Added TestEnvHelper class for gems/pending.
- LVM thin volume support
- Splitting MiqGroup
- New model created for entitlements
- Sharing entitlements across tenants will provide more flexibility for defining groups in LDAP
- Added scoping strategy for provision request
- Added ability to report on tenants and tenant quotas
- VM: Devices and Network Adapters
- Cloud: Key Pairs, Object Stores, Objects, Object Summary
- Bootstrap switches
- C3 Charts (jqPlot replacement)
- SSUI
- RBAC Control of Menus and Features
- Reconfiguring a Service
- Set Ownership of a Service
- I18n support added to the Self Service UI
- Self Service UI group switcher
- Support for Custom Buttons that use Dialogs
- Navigation bar restyled to match Operations UI
- HTML5 Console support for Service VMs (using new console-proxy implementation)
- Shopping Cart
- Add Ansible Tower providers
- Containers
- Persistent volumes, topology context menus
- Dashboard network trends
- Container environment variables table
- Search functionality for Container topology
- Dashboard no data cards
- Refresh option in Configuration dropdown
- Container Builds tab, Chargeback
- I18n
- Marked translated strings directly in UI
- Gettext support
- I18n for toolbars
- Topology Status Colors
- Vertical navigation menus
- VM Reconfigure - add/remove disks
- Orderable Orchestration Templates - create and copy
- Explorer for Datastore Clusters for VMware vSphere 5+
- Template/Image compliance policy checking (previously only allowed for VMs/Instances)
- New UI for replication configuration
- OpenStack - Cloud Volumes Add/Delete/Update/Attach/Detach
- Ansible Inventories/Configured Systems
- Support for Ansible Tower Jobs
- Support to add Service Dialog for a Job Template & display Surveys on summary screen
- Support added for Evacuate Openstack VMs
- Providers: Removed Amazon SDK v1
- Tag management cleanup
- Tags are removed from managed filters for all groups after deletion
- Update of managed filters after tag rename (in progress)
- SmartState Analysis
- LVM thin volume - fatal error: No longer fatal, but not supported. Thin volume support planned.
- LVM logical volume names containing “-”: LV name to device file mapping now properly accounts for “-”
- EXT4 - 64bit group descriptor: Variable group descriptor size correctly determined.
- Collect services that are symlinked
- Automate
- Retirement state-machine updates for SCVMM
- Enhanced .missing method support
- Save original method name in
_missing_instance property - Accessible during instance resolution and within methods
- Save original method name in
- Self Service UI extracted into its own repository setting up pattern for other independent UIs
- Initializers can now load ApplicationController w/o querying DB
- 10-20% performance improvement in vm explorer
- User Interface
- Converted toolbar images to font icons
- Enabled font icon support in list views
- Implemented Bootstrap switch to replace checkboxes
- SVG replacement of PNGs
- SlickGrid replaced with Patternfly TreeGrid
- Patternfly style updates to the Dashboard and other areas
- Updates to support multiple provider endpoints
- Moved Services to top level Menus
- Logo image on top left links to user's start page
- VM Provisoning: Disabled Auto-Placement logic for create_provision_request and Rest API calls
- Performance
- Support for sorting Virtual Columns in the database
- Service Tree improvement
- RBAC: Ongoing effort to reduce the number SQL queries and quantity of data being transferred
- Metrics Rollups bug fix
- Performance capture failure on cloud platforms caused by orphan VMs
- Reduction in base size of workers
- Reduction in memory used by EmsRefresh
- Platform
- Updated to Rails 5 (using Rails master branch until stable branch is cut)
- Appliance OS updated to CentOS 7.2 build 1511
- oVirt-metrics gem fixed for Rails 5
- Log Collection behavior updated
- Zone depot used if requested on zone and defined. Else, collection disabled
- Appliance depot used if requested on appliance and defined. Else, collection disabled
- DB seeding no longer silently catches exceptions
- Workers forked from main server process instead of spawned
- Updated to newer ansible
_tower_client gem- Accessors for Host#groups and #inventory_id
- Allow passing extra_vars to Job Template launch
- Added JSON validation for extra_vars
- Providers
- Memory issues during inventory collection
- Validating endpoints should not save data
- Kubernetes
- RHEV Integration
- Events
- Topology Widget
- VMware integration
- Inventory: Replicators, Routes, Projects
- SmartState Analysis
- Containers
- Resource Quotas
- Component Status
- Introduction of Atomic
- Namespacing
- Preparation for pluggable providers
- OpenStack, Containers
- Amazon: Added M4 and t2.large instance types
- OpenStack
- Improved naming for AMQP binding queues
- Shelve VMs
- Neutron Networking
- Foreman: Exposed additional properties to reporting
- Azure
- Initial work for Inventory Collection, OAuth2, azure-armrest gem
- Azure Provider models
- Power Operations
- RHEVM: Reconfigure of Memory and CPU
- Orchestration: Reconfiguration
- Reporting on Providers
- Ability to report on Performance
- Host Socket and Total VMs metrics
- Watermark reports available out-of-the-box
- Google Compute Engine
- New Provider
- Ability to validate authentication
- Filter Service Catalog Items during deployment
- OpenStack Shared Networks
- Identified during inventory refresh
- Available in the Cloud Network drop-down in Provisioning across all OpenStack Tenants
- Enabled SCVMM Auto placement
- Provision Dialogs: field validation for non-required fields
- Service Dialogs: Auto-refresh for dynamic dialog fields
- Foreman: Filtering of available Configuration Profiles based on selected Configured Systems in provisioning dialog
- Charting by field values
- Cloud Provider editor
- Converted to Angular
- Uses RESTful routes
- Orchestration: Stacks Retirement added
- Retirement screens converted to Angular
- DHTMLX menus replaced with Bootstrap/Patternfly menus
- Host editor converted to Angular
- Added donut charts
- Tenancy Roles for RBAC
- Self Service UI is enabled and included in build
- Updated file upload screens
- Initiate event processing through Automate
- Users can add automate handlers to customize event processing
- Centralized event mappings
- Moves provider event mappings from appliance file (config/event_handling.tmpl.yml) into the automate model
- Organization of Events through automate namespaces
- Event handling changes without appliance restarts
- Notes:
- New events must be added to automate model
- Built-in event handlers added for performance
- Requires update of the ManageIQ automate domain
- Model
- new Tenant model associations
- Automate domains
- Service Catalogs
- Catalog Items
- Assign default groups to tenants
- Assign groups to all VMs and Services
- Assign existing records to root tenant Provider, Automate Domain, Group, TenantQuota, Vm
- Expose VM/Templates association on Tenant model
- New Automate Service Models
- Tenant
- TenantQuota
- UI
- RBAC and Roles - Access Roles features exposed
- New roles created for RBAC
- Quota Management
- Associate Tenant to Requests and Services
- Update of VM tenant when owning group changes
- Tagging support
- Automate Tenant Quotas
- Customizable Automate State Machine for validating quotas for Service, Infrastructure, and Cloud
- Default Setting based on Tenant Quota Model
- Can be enforced per tenant and subtenants in the UI
- Selection of multiple constraints (cpu, memory, storage)
- Limits are enforced during provisioning
- New Events available for use with Policy
- Host Start Request
- Host Stop Request
- Host Shutdown Request
- Host Reset Request
- Host Reboot Request
- Host Standby Request
- Host Maintenance Enter Request
- Host Maintenance Exit Request
- Host Vmotion Enable Request
- Host Vmotion Disable Request
- Querying Service Template images
- Querying Resource Actions as a formal sub-collection of service_templates
- Querying Service Dialogs
- Querying Provision Dialogs
- Ability to import reports
- Roles CRUD
- Product features collection
- Chargeback Rates CRUD
- Reports run action
- Report results collection
- Access to image_hrefs for Services and Service Templates
- Support for custom action buttons and dialogs
- Categories and tags CRUD
- Support password updates
- Enhancements for Self-Service UI
- Enhancements for Tenancy
- Automate Server Role enabled by default
- Configurable Automate Worker added
- State Machine
- Multiple state machine support
- Allow for a state to be skipped (on_entry)
- Allow for continuation of a state machine in case of errors (on_error)
- Allow methods to set the next state to execute
- Added support for state machine restart
- Identify Visible/Editable/Enabled Automate domains for tenants
- Set automate domain priority (scoped per tenant)
- Service model updates
- Import/export updates to honor tenant domains
- Support for VMware VDDK version 6
- Storage: Added FCP, iSCSI, GlusterFS
- Authentication
- External Auth to AD web ui login & SSO - Manual configuration
- External Auth to LDAP - Manual configuration
- Supporting Additional External Authentications
- Appliance tested with 2-Factor Authentication with FreeIPA >= 4.1.0
- PostgreSQL 9.4.1
- CentOS 7.1
- Apache 2.4
- jQuery 1.9.1
- STIG compliant file systems
- Changed file system from ext4 to xfs
- Added support for systemctl
- Support for running on Puma, but default is Thin
- Reworked report serialization for Rails 4.2
- Replication: Added Diagnostics
- Appliance Console
- Standard login: type root (not admin)
- Standard bash: type appliance_console
- GitHub Repository
- vmdb rerooted to look like a Rails app
- lib moved into gems/pending
- Build and system directories extracted to new repositories
- Extracted C code to external gems
- MiqLargeFileLinux => large_file_linux gem
- MiqBlockDevOps => linux_block_device and memory_buffer gems
- MiqMemory => memory_buffer gem
- SlpLib => slp gem
- Gem updates
- Upgraded rufus scheduler to version 3
- Upgraded to latest net-sftp
- Upgraded to latest net-ssh
- Upgraded to latest ruby-progressbar
- Upgraded to latest snmp
- LinuxAdmin updated to 0.11.1
- Core: SOAP server side has been removed
- RHEVM SmartState Analysis issues.
- Fix for RHEV 3.5 - ovf file no longer on NFS share.
- Fix for NFS permission problem - uid changed when opening files on share.
- Fix for environments with both, NFS and LUN based storage.
- Timeout honored.
- SmartState Refactoring
- Refactored the middle layer of the SmartState Analysis stack.
- Common code no longer based on VmOrTemplate models.
- Facilitate the implementation of SmartState for things that are not like VMs.
- Enabler for Container SmartState
- Appliance: Cloud-init reported issues have been addressed.
- Automate: VMware snapshot from automate fixed - memory parameter added
- REST API Source refactoring: app/helpers/api_helper/ → app/controllers/api_controller
- Replication: Added heartbeating to child worker process for resiliency
- Providers
- Moved provider event filters into the database (blacklisted events)
- SCVMM Inventory Performance Improvement
- Fixed caching for OpenStack Event Monitors
- OpenStack
- Generic Pagination
- Better Neutron support
- Deleting unused RabbitMIQ queues
- Provisioning: Fixed unique names for provisioned VMs when ordered through a service
- UI
- Technical Debt Progress
- Remaining TreePresenter/ExplorerPresenter conversions in progress
- Switched from Patternfly LESS to SASS
- Replaced DHTMLXCombo controls
- Replaced DHTMLXCalendar controls
- Patternfly styling
- Schedule Editor updated to use Angular and RESTful routes
- Increased chart responsiveness
- Fixes for Japanese I18n support
- Fixed alignment of Foreman explorer RBAC features with the UI
- Technical Debt Progress
- Chargeback: selectable units for Chargeback Rates
- General
- Added refresh status and errors, viewable on Provider Summary Page.
- Added collection of raw power state and exposed to reporting.
- Orchestration: Support for Retirement
- Update authentication status when clicking validate for existing Providers.
- Hosts and Providers now default to use the hostname column for communication instead of IP address.
- SCVMM
- Provisioning from template, Kerberos Authentication
- Virtual DVD drives for templates
- Kubernetes
- UI updates including Refresh button
- Inventory Collection
- EMS Refresh scheduling
- Foreman
- Provider refresh
- Enabled Reporting / Tagging
- Exposed Foreman models as Automate service models
- Zone enablement
- EMS Refresh scheduling
- Added tag processing during provisioning.
- Added inventory collection of direct and inherited host/host-group settings.
- Organization and location inventory
- Cloud Providers
- Cloud Images and Instances: Added root device type to summary screens.
- Cloud Flavors: Added block storage restriction to summary screens.
- Enabled Reporting.
- OpenStack
- Inventory for Heat Stacks (Cloud and Infrastructure)
- Connect Cloud provider to Infrastructure provider
- OpenStack Infrastructure Host Events
- Autoscale compute nodes via Automate
- Support for non-admin users to EMS Refresh
- Tenant relationships added to summary screens
- OpenStack Infrastructure Event processing
- Handling of power states: paused, rebooting, waiting to launch
- UI OpenStack Terminology: Clusters vs Deployment Roles, Hosts vs Nodes
- Amazon
- AWS Region EU Frankfurt
- Inventory collection for AWS CloudFormation
- Parsing of parameters from orchestration templates
- Amazon Events via AWS Config service
- Event-based policies for AWS
- Added a backend attribute to identify public images.
- Added C4, D2, and G2 instance types.
- Virtualization type collected during EMS refresh for better filtering of available types during provisioning.
- Handling of power states
- Orchestration
- Orchestration Stacks include tagging
- Cloud Stacks: Summary and list views.
- Orchestration templates
- Create, edit, delete, tagging, 'draft' support
- Create Service Dialog from template contents
- Enabled Reporting / Tagging.
- Improved rollback error message in UI.
- Collect Stack Resource name and status reason message.
- Heat Orchestration provisioning through services
- Foreman
- Provisioning of bare metal systems
- Uses latest Foreman Apipie gem
- Allow removing keys from :clone_options by setting value to nil
- OpenStack: Added tenant filtering on security groups, floating IPs, and networks.
- Amazon: Filter of flavors based on root device type and block storage restrictions.
- Bootstrap/Patternfly
- Updates to form buttons with Patternfly
- Login screen converted to Bootstrap / Patternfly
- Header, navigation, and outer layouts converted to Bootstrap / Patternfly
- Advanced search converted to Bootstrap / Patternfly
- AngularJS
- Repository Editor using AngularJS
- Schedule editor converted to AngularJS
- I18N
- HAML and I18n strings 100% completed in views
- Multi-character set language support
- Can now set the locale for both server and user
- HTML5 Console for RHEVM, VMware, and OpenStack
- Menu plugins for external sites
- Charting updates: jqPlot, default charts, chart styling, donut chart support
- UI Customizations with Less
- Dashboard tabs updated
- Replaced many legacy Prototype calls with jQuery equivalents
- Tagging support and toolbars on list views
- Total parity with SOAP API. SOAP API is now deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release.
- Foundational
- Virtual attribute support
- Id/Href separation- Enhancement to /api/providers to support new provider class
- Providers CRUD
- Refresh via /api/providers
- Tag Collection /api/tags
- Tag Management (assign and unassign to/from resources)
- Policy Management: Query policy and policy profiles conditions
- VM Management
- Custom Attributes
- Add LifeCycle Events
- Start, stop, suspend, delete.
- Accounts sub-collection /api/vms/#/accounts
- Software sub-collection /api/vms/#/software
- Support for external authentication (httpd) against an IPA server.
- Enhanced UI import to allow granularity down to the namespace.
- Cloud Objects exposed to Automate.
- Allow Automate methods to override or extend parameters passed to provider by updating the clone_options during provisioning.
- New service model for CloudResourceQuota.
- Exposed relationships through EmsCloud and CloudTenant models.
- Exposed cloud relationships in automate service models.
- Persist state data through automate state machine retries.
- Moved auto-placement into an Automate state-machine step for Cloud and Infrastructure provisioning.
- Added common "Finished" step to all Automate state machine classes.
- Added eligible_* and set_* methods for cloud resources to provision task service model.
- Ability to specify zone for web service automation request
- Ability to override request message
- Updated provisioning/retirement entry point in a catalog item or bundle.
- Disabled domains now clearly marked in UI.
- Automate entry point selection reduced to state machine classes.
- Retirement
- New workflow
- Detection of User vs. System initiated retirement
- Qcow3
- VSAN (VMware)
- OpenStack instances
- Systemd fleecing support
- XFS filesystem support
- All strings in the views have been converted to use gettext (I18n) calls
- Can add/update I18n files with translations
- Dynamic field support: text boxes, text area boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, date/time control
- Dynamic list field refactored into standard drop-down field
- Read only field support
- Dialog seeding for imports
- Service provisioning request overrides
- Allow IPv6 literals in VMware communication by upgrading httpclient
- Allow IPv6 literals in RHEVM/ovirt communication by fixing and upgrading rest-client and ruby 2.0
- Fixed URI building within ManageIQ to wrap/unwrap IPv6 literals as needed
- Lock down POODLE attacks.
- Support SSL for OpenStack
- Deals with different ways to configure SSL for OpenStack
- SSL termination at OpenStack services
- SSL termination at proxy
- Doesn't always change the service ports
- Attempts non-SSL first, then fails over to SSL
- Deals with different ways to configure SSL for OpenStack
- Kerberos ticket based SSO to web UI login.
- Fix_auth command tool can now update passwords in database.yml
- Better messaging around overwriting database encryption keys
- Make memcached listen on loopback address, not all addresses
- Migrate empty memcache_server_opts to bind on localhost by default
- Rake task to allow a user to replicate all pending backlog before upgrading.
- Appliance Console: Added ability to copy keys across appliances.
- Ruby 2.0
- Appliance now built using Ruby 2.0
- New commits and pull requests - tested with Ruby 2.0
- Ability to configure a temp disk for OpenStack fleecing added to the appliance console.
- Generation of encryption keys added to the appliance console and CLI.
- Generation of PostgreSQL certificates, leveraging IPA, added to the appliance console CLI.
- Support for Certmonger/IPA to the appliance certificate authority.
- Iptables configured via kickstart
- Replaced authentication_(valid|invalid)? with (has|missing)_credentials?
- Stop/start apache if user_interface and web_services are inactive/active
- Rails
- Moved to Rails 4 finders.
- Removed patches against the logger classes.
- Removed assumptions that associations are eagerly loaded.
- Updated preloader patches against Rails
- Updated virtual column / reflection code to integrate with Rails
- Started moving ActiveRecord 2.3 hash based finders to Relation based finders
- Backports and refactorings on master for Rails 4 support
- Rails server listen on loopback when running appliance in production mode
- Bigint id columns
- Memoist gem replaced deprecated ActiveSupport::Memoizable
- Upgraded AWS SDK gem
- Upgraded Fog gem
- LDAP
- Allow undefined users to log in when “Get User Groups from LDAP” is disabled
- Ability to set default group for LDAP Authentication
- Allow Default Zone description to be changed
- Lazy require the less-rails gem
- SmartProxy:
- Removed from UI
- Directory removed
- IP Address Form Field: Removed from UI (use Hostname)
- Prototype from UI
- Support for repository refreshes, since they are not used.
- Support for Host-only refreshes. Instead, an ESX/ESXi server should be added as a Provider.
- Rails Fork removal
- Backport disable_ddl_transaction! from Rails master to our fork
- Update the main app to use disable_ddl_transaction!
- Add bigserial support for primary keys to Rails (including table creation and FK column creation)
- Backport bigserial API to our fork
- Update application to use new API
- Old C-Language VixDiskLib binding code
- Reduced need for Rails fork.
- Testing: Removed have_same_elements custom matcher in favor of built-in match_array
- Graphical summary screens
- VDI support
- Various monkey patches to prepare for Ruby 2 and Rails 4 upgrades
- Provisioning
- Fixed duplicate VM name generation issue during provisioning.
- Provisioning fix for non-admin OpenStack tenants.
- Provisioning fix to deal with multiple security groups with the same name.
- Automate
- Prevent deletion of locked domains.
- Corrected ManageIQ/Infrastructure/vm/retirement method retry criteria.
- Fixed timeout issue with remove_from_disk method on a VM in Automate.
- Providers
- server_monitor_poll default setting changed to 5 seconds, resulting in shorter queue times.
- Fixed issue where deleting an EMS and adding it back would cause refresh failure.
- EventEx is now disabled by default to help prevent event storms
- Fixed "High CPU usage" due to continually restarting workers when a provider is unreachable or password is invalid.
- RHEVM/oVirt:
- Ignore user login failed events to prevent event flooding.
- Discovery fixed to eliminate false positives
- SCVMM: Fixed refresh when Virtual DVD drives are not present.
- OpenStack - Image pagination issue where all of the images would not be collected. - OpenStack provider will gracefully handle 404 errors. - Fixed issue where a stopped or paused OpenStack instance could not be restarted.
- Database
- Fixed seeding of VmdbDatabase timing out with millions of vmdb_metrics rows
- Database.yml is no longer created after database is configured.
- Fixed virtual column inheritance creating duplicate entries.
- Appliance
- Fixed ftp log collection regression
- Ruby 2.0
- Ruby2 trap logging and worker row status
- Fixed appliance logrotate not actually rotating the logs.
- Gem upgrades for bugs/enhancements
- haml
- net-ldap
- net-ping
- Other
- Workaround for broker hang: Reported as VMware events and capacity and utilization works for a while, then stops.
- Chargeback
- Storage C&U collected every 60 minutes.
- Don't collect cpus/memory available unless you have usage.
- Clean up of CPU details in UI
- SMTP domain length updated to match SMTP host length
- Fleecing: Fixed handling of nil directory entries and empty files
- Fixed issue where deleting a cluster or host tries to delete all policy_events, thus never completing when there are millions of events.
- Fixed inheriting tags from resource pool.
- UI: Fixed RBAC / Feature bugs