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@sadsfae sadsfae released this 04 Dec 14:37
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About 1.1.4

QUADS 1.1.4 is a major enhancement and bugfix release for the 1.1 gaúcho series and is highly recommended. This comes with around 7 months of development since 1.1.3 and building on the landmark, next-generation 1.1.0 series.

With almost 100 peer-reviewed commits to the codebase, 1.1.4 is comprised of around 25 x enhancements and 30+ bug fixes.

🦃 1.1.4 arrives just in time for Thanksgiving 🦃

Major Feature Highlights

  • Hardware Metadata Model: QUADS now populates useful characteristics about your hosts and keeps them in the MongoDB database.

    • You will need to populate data about your systems to take advantage of this.
    • This is baked into the serveral CLI options as well via the --filter command
      • quads-cli --ls-hosts --filter "interfaces.mac_address==ac:1f:62:2f:19:42"
      • quads-cli --ls-available --filter "model==FC640,interfaces__size==5"

  • QUADS Available UI (Tech Preview): Flask-based web UI for querying systems availability provided by new service quads-web

    • Runs on TCP/5001
    • Runs from the quads-web service if using RPM / systemd
    • Relies on the MongoDB metadata model for filtering based on model

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  • New options for managing cloud extensions

    • The following commands can be used for easier management of extensions
      • quads-cli --extend-cloud cloud02 --weeks 2 --check
      • quads-cli --extend-cloud cloud02 --weeks 2

  • New commands for managing top-level cloud attributes

    • The --mod-cloud command is now available to manage individual settings at the cloud assignment level

  • Configurable time-lock for defining new environments is present

    • To prevent against human race conditions and the potential for more than one operator to choose a cloud from quads-cli --find-free-cloud we've implemented configurable time locks that prevent future re-definition of a cloud environment for a period set in cloud_reservation_lock

  • Management of broken hosts moved to MongoDB

    • We no longer rely on Foreman host parameters to manage broken/faulty systems, this is now done in MongoDB and managed via QUADS CLI
      • quads-cli --ls-broken
      • quads-cli --mark-faulty --host host01
      • quads-cli --mark-repaired --host host01

  • validate_env.py and our netcat health checks for validation are now fully using asyncio

  • move_and_rebuild_hosts.py will now also unmount virtual media ISO (SuperMicro)

  • Network automation is now idempotent and will not run twice if not needed.

  • quads-cli --summary --detail gives additional full-readout display of active assignments.

  • Additional validation check added quads/tools/netcat.py which checks that a system is reachable via TCP/22, this also adds intelligence to validate_env.py to try and better determine where a set of systems is in the baseline/provision process to enact smarter automation.

Major Bug Fixes

  • validate_env.py reboot on marked for build commit

  • Format error message for --extend-cloud commit

  • simple_table_web.py fixes for heat map visuals commit

  • Fixes for summary listings commit

  • VLAN fixes for last interface for optional public VLANS commit

  • Notification fixes commit

  • Fix for old cloud objects not being cleared commit

  • Fixes for verify_switchconf.py and not processing the last interfaces commit

  • Fixes for SuperMicro one-time boot commit

  • Fixes for netcat.py health checks socket prematurely closing commit

  • Fixes for --ls-available filtering commit

  • Fix for applying PXE persistence flags on SuperMicro commit

  • Q-in-Q argument fixes and extensibility commit

  • CloudHistory fixes with prep_data commit

  • VLAN ID fixes for CloudHistory commit

  • Please consult the full changelog of differences between the last release and current upstream codebase for full details of all fixes and enhancements.

New Configuration Options (Read before Migrating from 1.1.3)

The following are changes in /opt/quads/conf/quads.yml you should adjust or add, it's a good idea to diff the updated quads.yml with your existing one to make note of any breaking changes via diff -u /opt/quads/conf/quads.{yml,yml.rpmnew}

  • New entries for optional ticket system association with QUADS

    • ticket_url:
    • ticket_queue:

  • Optional value for inserting a preferred day-of-week deadline for tenants to submit extension requests.

    • quads_request_deadline_day:

  • Set default wipe policy (defaults to True)

    • default_wipe:

  • Reservation lock (defaults to 48hrs)

    • cloud_reservation_lock:

  • Models Information Added (comma separated list of supported models that match metadata model strings)

    • models: R620,R630,R640,R930,R730XD

  • Expiring cloud notification setting:

    • quads_notify_until_extended: True

Removed Configuration Options

The following are key/value pair configuration options that have been removed from QUADS

  • gather_dell_configs:
  • foreman_check_host_health:
  • rt_url: (replaced by ticket_url:)
  • report_dir:

Other Notable Changes and Upgrade Notes

Migrating Broken Hosts Management to Mongo

If you used Foreman host parameters to manage your broken systems before you can migrate them to Mongo with this command set

Migrating from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 Reservation Locks

Foreman RBAC Changes

We have moved to a more manageable method of juggling role-based access permissions for tenants using Foreman which is based on host ownership instead of a series of filters and roles individually added to each system.

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