Hello MAASters! I'm happy to announce that MAAS 2.4.0 beta 1 is now released and is available for Ubuntu Bionic.
*MAAS Availability* MAAS 2.4.0 beta 1 is currently available in Bionic -proposed waiting to be published into Ubuntu, or in the following PPA: *ppa:maas/next* MAAS 2.4.0 (beta1)Important announcementsDebian package maas-dns no longer needed The Debian package ‘maas-dns’ has now been made a transitional package. This package provided some post-installation configuration to prepare bind to be managed by MAAS, but it required maas-region-api to be installed first. In order to streamline the installation and make it easier for users to install HA environments, the configuration of bind has now been integrated to the ‘maas-region-api’ package itself, which and we have made ‘maas-dns’ a dummy transitional package that can now be removed. New Features & ImprovementsMAAS Internals optimization Major internal surgery to MAAS 2.4 continues improve various areas not visible to the user. These updates will advance the overall performance of MAAS in larger environments. These improvements include: - Database query optimizations Further reductions in the number of database queries, significantly cutting the queries made by the boot source cache image import process from over 100 to just under 5. - UI optimizations MAAS is being optimized to reduce the amount of data using the websocket API to render the UI. This is targeted at only processing data only for viewable information, improving various legacy areas. Currently, the work done for this release includes: - Only load historic script results (e.g. old commissioning/testing results) when requested / accessed by the user, instead of always making them available over the websocket. - Only load node objects in listing pages when the specific object type is requested. For instance, only load machines when accessing the machines tab instead of also loading devices and controllers. - Change the UI mechanism to only request OS Information only on initial page load rather than every 10 seconds. KVM pod improvements Continuing with the improvements from alpha 2, this new release provides more updates to KVM pods: - Added overcommit ratios for CPU and memory. When composing or allocating machines, previous versions of MAAS would allow the user to request as many resources as the user wanted regardless of the available resources. This created issues when dynamically allocating machines as it could allow users to create an infinite number of machines even when the physical host was already over committed. Adding this feature allows administrators to control the amount of resources they want to over commit. - Added ability to filter which pods or pod types to avoid when allocating machines Provides users with the ability to select which pods or pod types not to allocate resources from. This makes it particularly useful when dynamically allocating machines when MAAS has a large number of pods. DNS UI Improvements MAAS 2.0 introduced the ability to manage DNS, not only to allow the creation of new domains, but also to the creation of resources records such as A, AAA, CNAME, etc. However, most of this functionality has only been available over the API, as the UI only allowed to add and remove new domains. As of 2.4, MAAS now adds the ability to manage not only DNS domains but also the following resource records: - Added ability to edit domains (e.g. TTL, name, authoritative). - Added ability to create and delete resource records (A, AAA, CNAME, TXT, etc). - Added ability to edit resource records. Navigation UI improvements MAAS 2.4 beta 1 is changing the top-level navigation: - Rename ‘Zones’ for ‘AZs’ - Add ‘Machines, Devices, Controllers’ to the top-level navigation instead of ‘Hardware’. Minor improvements A few notable improvements being made available in MAAS 2.4 include: - Add ability to force the boot type for IPMI machines. Hardware manufactures have been upgrading their BMC firmware versions to be more compliant with the Intel IPMI 2.0 spec. Unfortunately, the IPMI 2.0 spec has made changes that provide a non-backward compatible user experience. For example, if the administrator configures their machine to always PXE boot over EFI, and the user executed an IPMI command without specifying the boot type, the machine would use the value of the configured BIOS. However, with these new changes, the user is required to always specify a boot type, avoiding a fallback to the BIOS. As such, MAAS now allows the selection of a boot type (auto, legacy, efi) to force the machine to always PXE with the desired type (on the next boot only) . - Add ability, via the API, to skip the BMC configuration on commissioning. Provides an API option to skip the BMC auto configuration during commissioning for IPMI systems. This option helps admins keep credentials provided over the API when adding new nodes. Bug fixes Please refer to the following for all 32 bug fixes in this release. https://launchpad.net/maas/+milestone/2.4.0beta1 -- Andres Rodriguez Engineering Manager, MAAS Canonical USA, Inc.
-- Maas-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/maas-devel
