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Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Unreleased

Sprint 26 end 2015-07-13

Added

  • OpenStack: Flavors for all tenants
  • Containers: Correlate nodes to OpenStack instances
  • Automate: Configurable automate worker added
  • Provisioning: OpenStack Shared Networks
    • Identified during inventory refresh
    • Available in the Cloud Network drop-down in Provisioning across all OpenStack Tenants

Changed

  • Providers: Namespace changes
    • app/models/ems_vmware.rb becomes app/models/manageiq/providers/vmware/infra_manager.rb
    • app/models/ems_amazon.rb becomes app/models/manageiq/providers/amazon/cloud_manager.rb
  • UI: Technical Debt Progress
    • Started replacing DHTMLX controls
    • Remaining TreePresenter/ExplorerPresenter conversions in progress
    • Switched from Patternfly LESS to SASS
  • UI: Updates
    • Ongoing Patternfly styling
    • Schedule Editor update
  • Automate: State Machine
    • 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
  • Appliance
    • CentOS 7.1
    • Apache 2.4
    • thin => puma
    • Build environment virtualized
  • Core Changes
    • 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

Removed

  • Core: SOAP server side has been removed

Sprint 25 end 2015-06-22

Added

  • Container Integration: Kubernetes Events
  • Amazon: Added M4 and t2.large instance types
  • UI: Added donut charts

Changed

  • Automate: Automate Server Role enabled by default
  • Service Dialogs: Auto-refresh for dynamic dialog fields
  • UI: Upgraded to jQuery 1.9.1
  • UI: Increased chart responsiveness
  • Appliance: Extracting C code to external gems

Sprint 24 end 2015-06-01

Added

  • Kubernetes inventory
    • Replicators
    • Routes
    • Projects
  • OpenShift Provider
  • OpenStack: Better name for AMQP binding queues
  • Provisioning
    • Enabled SCVMM Auto placement
    • Provision dialog field validation for non-required fields

Fixed

Notable fixes include:

  • Provisioning: Fixed unique names for provisioned VMs when ordered through a service
  • UI
    • Fixes for Japanese I18n support
    • Fixed alignment of Foreman explorer RBAC features with the UI

Sprint 23 end 2015-05-11

Added

  • Foreman
    • Filtering of available Configuration Profiles based on selected Configured Systems in provisioning dialog
    • Exposed additional properties to reporting

Changed

  • UI: Foreman Enhancements

Botvinnik Release

Added Features

Providers

  • 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.

Provisioning

  • 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.

User Interface

  • 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

Rest API

  • 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.

Automate

  • 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

Fleecing

  • Qcow3
  • VSAN (VMware)
  • OpenStack instances
  • Systemd fleecing support
  • XFS filesystem support

I18n

  • All strings in the views have been converted to use gettext (I18n) calls
  • Can add/update I18n files with translations

Service Dialogs

  • 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

IPv6

  • 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

Security

  • 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
  • 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

Appliance

  • 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

Removed

  • 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

Notable Fixes and Changes

  • 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