Foreman 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 released
A new version of the Foreman went out in early December, followed by a
bugfix release.
Headline features of the releases are:
- enhancements to smart class parameters, providing better control over default values and merging of values across matchers
- a new build review page that should help you check for common errors when switching a host into build mode
- support for specifying bonds, VLANs and aliased interfaces on a host-importing interfaces them from facts
- two existing features have been moved into plugins (foreman_host_rundeck, smart_proxy_chef) and have their separate lifecycle now
Detailed information about the changes in the releases is available in our Foreman 1.7.0 and Foreman 1.7.1 release notes.
This release also marks the end of Debian 6 (Squeeze) support, and Ruby 1.8.7 in the Foreman application (not the proxy or installer).
Thanks to all our contributors!
Hammer 0.1.4 released
After a long period of silence new versions of Hammer CLI and Hammer CLI
Foreman were released. They bring new commands for managing external
user groups and LDAP auth sources, YAML and JSON exports and enable for
using names when associating multiple resources at once. There are also
new translations available.
Read the release notes for further details:
hammer_cli,
hammer_cli_foreman
Katello 2.1 RC1 released
The Katello team announced a release candidate of Katello 2.1. Users may test out the new features in the next release. Katello 2.1 is a plugin to Foreman 1.7. Upgrades from previous versions of Katello have not been tested but an upgrade procedure to 2.1 should be available soon.
For more information, please be sure to visit the project’s website http://www.katello.org
Features in development
Networking
Bunch of networking improvements is approaching merge. This change brings more flexibility into specifying primary and provisioning interfaces. The UI has been simplified and split up into a NICs overview table and modal windows showing details.
Multihost deployment
Work on multihost deployment continue. December was in the name of defining a data model. The current state is thoroughly described in a deepdive on this topic.
Moving to Rails 4
We’ve started with first steps towards moving to Rails 4 this month. Stay tuned for more information.
New plugins this month
- foreman_digitalocean - enables provisioning and managing of DigitalOcean droplets in Foreman
- foreman_host_overview - extends the properties table for a host to include VNC & RDP links, as well as the host’s certificate name
- foreman_host_rundeck- creates a yaml representation of rundeck on hosts