8. Providers - Hawkular (A.Bonas)
New functionality/features:
● Alerts
○ Link miq alerts and hawkular events on the provider
○ Convert miq alerts/profiles to hawkular group triggers/members of group
triggers
○ Sync the provider when miq alerts and alert profiles are created/updated
● 2 new entities added - domains and server groups
○ Including their visualization in topology
○ Limitation : still missing relevant icons that need to be designed by uxd
● Deletion operation of the datasource entity
● Support more event types for datasource and deployment
● Cross linking to VMs added to topology
● Add a button for Re-checking Authentication in the Middleware
providers list view
9. Providers - Hawkular (A.Bonas)
Misc
● Hawkular gem upgraded to 2.4
● Bugs fixed in breadcrumbs, alerts, live metrics, deployments and more areas
● Core UI - new Angular toolbars - will be mentioned in the UI section shortly
10. Providers - Google (G.Blomquist)
Preemptible Instances
Retirement support
11. Providers - Azure (G.Blomquist)
Additional Metrics
Fix proxy for Template lookups
Caching for SmartState
17. Providers - General (G.Blomquist)
Load Balancers
supports :smartstate_analysis
18. Service Broker
Service Designer
● Blueprint API is 90% done
○ edit and publish are still in development
● Continue to connect the service designer with the API
○ create, view, and delete working
Arbitration Profiles
● Arbitration profiles are a collection of pre-defined settings
● Works in conjunction with the Arbitration Engine
● Demo! (Jillian Tullo)
19. Service Broker
Rules Engine
● Will allow admins to easily create rule sets for to enforce policy
○ e.g. enforcing a VPC in AWS for development servers
● UX design is in progress
● API has been completed
20. User Interface
Dan Clarizio
● PRs merged (131)
○ SSUI (2)
○ Bugs (54)
○ Enhancements (26)
○ Tech Debt / Refactoring (57)
○ Backported to Darga (4)
● Refactoring
○ Converted to TreeBuilder - Manage Policies, Servers/Roles, SmartProxy
Affinity, Bottlenecks, Utilization, Compare Sections
○ Angular forms - Set Ownership, Time Profile Editor
○ Some simple RJS use cases replaced
○ Toolbar refactoring - Service Orchestration, VMs
○ Toolbar functionality accessible from Angular (Karel)
21. User Interface
● Enhancements
○ 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
28. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
PostgreSQL High Availability
● Failover Monitor
○ Runs as a service under systemd
○ Provides automatic failover of EVM server to new
primary DB
29. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Tenancy
● Work continues to support sharing resources across
tenants
○ 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
30. Additional Enhancements and Bug Fixes
● 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
● DB maintenance scripts added to appliance
● Expression refactoring and cleanup
○ Relative dates and times, conversion to Ruby
Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
31. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Continuing Refactoring
● 12 Refactoring PR’s merged
Bug Fixes
● Hide internal Tenant Groups from /api/groups
● Raise 403 Forbidden for deleting read-only groups
● API Request logging
32. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for BluePrints
● New collection /api/blueprints
● Supporting CRUD operations:
POST /api/blueprints to create
{
“name” : "bp_name",
“description” : “blueprint description",
“bundle” : {
“service_catalog” : { “id” : :service_catalog_id },
“service_dialog” : { “id” : :service_dialog_id },
“automate_entrypoints” : { "Provision" : "a/b/c", "Reconfigure" : "x/y/z” },
“service_templates” : [ { “id” : :st_id1 }, { “id” : :st_id2 } ]
}
}
POST /api/blueprints/:id action “edit” for single resource update
POST /api/blueprints action “edit” for bulk updates
DELETE /api/blueprints/:id for single resource delete
POST /api/blueprints action “delete” for bulk deletes
33. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for BluePrints
● GETs of blueprints include serialized content:
GET /api/blueprints/:id
{
“href” : “http://localhost:3000/api/blueprints/:id”,
“Id” : 123,
“description” : “blueprint description",
“content” : {
“id” : :st_id,
“description” : “blueprint description”,
...
“service_catalog” : { },
“service_dialog” : { },
“automate_entrypoints” : { "Provision" : "a/b/c", "Reconfigure" : "x/y/z” },
“service_templates” : [ ]
}
}
34. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for compressed id’s in inbound requests:
GET /api/vms/1000000000002
Can now also be requested as follows:
GET /api/vms/1r2
35. REST API
Chris Kacerguis
Added support for Arbitration Rules
● New collection /api/arbitration_rules
● Full CRUD support
POST /api/arbitration_rules
{
“name” : “admin rule”,
“operation” : “inject”,
“expression” : { “EQUAL” : { “field” : “User-userid”, “value” : “admin” } }
}
POST /api/arbitration_rules/:id action “edit” for single update
POST /api/arbitration_rules action “edit” for bulk updates
DELETE /api/arbitration_rules/:id for single Delete
POST /api/arbitration_rules action “delete” for bulk deletes
37. Automate
Greg McCullough
● Enhanced Messaging for Provisioning
○ Displayed elements
i. ManageIQ Server name
ii. Name of VM/Service being provisioned
iii. Current Automate state machine step
iv. Status message
v. Provision Task Message
vi. Retry count (when applicable)
38. Automate
Greg McCullough
● Google Compute Engine - retirement support
● New tagging method - taggable?
○ 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
○ In-progress: UI and Methods
39. Automate
Madhu Kanoor
● Git Automate support
○ Branch/Tag support
○ Contents are locked
i. Can be copied to other domains for editing
○ Editable properties
i. Enabled/Disabled
ii. Priority
iii. Removal of Domain
○ Dedicated server role to store the repository
● Future
○ REST API to refresh domains from a Git hook
41. SmartState
Rich Oliveri
Deployed new MiqDiskCache module for use in Azure SSA
● Scan time:
○ From: Greater than 20 minutes
○ To: Less than 5 minutes (some cases < 2 minutes)
● Azure backend read requests per scan:
○ From: More than 7000 requests/scan
○ To: Less than 1000 requests/scan (some cases < 400)
42. Performance
Dennis Metzger
Focus - Page rendering performance
Page specific & Multi-page (common code)
Big Win (multi-page impact):
Test Page: Services -> Workload -> All VMs
Route: /vm_or_template/explorer
Database with 20,000 VMs
Before:93,770 ms
After: 524 ms
43. Quality Engineering
Dave Johnson
● Continuing to verify issues being fixed
○ Some 75 passed, 8 were reopened
● Began focusing on upstream nightly build for testing
○ Some 50 issues opened in the last 7 days
● Continuing to work on automation
○ Building more coverage around Middleware, Containers, Azure scenarios
○ Continuing to refactor for our next version of the fw
● We need a better solution around understanding when JS is complete in the
UI
● We continue to seeing a lot of string changes that affect the automation, we
need to get better about static element IDs