Release v1.50.0

Highlights

• New blueprints for Managed Lustre attached to VMs and to Slurm clusters (including opt-in solution for A3 Ultra and A4 Slurm blueprints)
• Breaking change: RoCE (RDMA) networks no longer support firewall rules. Older blueprints will fail with a validation warning; the solution is to remove the firewall rules following the examples in 312d7fb.

What's Changed

Key New Features 🎉

• Move from auth/munge to auth/slurm by @harshthakkar01 in #3955
• deprecate kueue v0.11.1 and use v0.11.4 by @ighosh98 in #4026

New Modules 🧱

• Cluster Toolkit - new module for creating Artifact Registries by @scott-nag in #3639

Module Improvements 🔨

• Enable specification of system node pool zones in the GKE Cluster module by @ndebuhr in #3976
• Add support for optional GCS bucket module config by @mohitchaurasia91 in #3990
• fix(htcondor): explicitly set region for cm and ap addresses to match subnetwork region by @rbekhtaoui in #3991
• Remove the broken auto_delete_disk system, and replace it with a working snapshot-based alternative, in the NFS Server module by @ndebuhr in #3887
• add non-queue flex-start support in gke by @chengcongdu in #3995
• Extend slurm_conf_tpl to support raw content by @gkcalat in #4010
• Adding GKE support for Managed Lustre by @cdunbar13 in #4022

Improvements 🛠

• Add a simple XPK blueprint example by @ndebuhr in #3980
• Add unique name for resource policy by @parulbajaj01 in #4002
• update kueue configurations and reservations in a3 mega, ultra and A4 by @ighosh98 in #4017
• Remove k8s service account var from gke-a3U blueprint by @parulbajaj01 in #4024
• disable unattended upgrades in a3u and a4h slurm solutions by @RachaelSTamakloe in #4006
• Add improved MIG lifecycle management for flex by @abbas1902 in #4015
• Add dws flex and spot provisioning options to the A4 example by @abbas1902 in #3945

Deprecations 💤

• Removal of the omnia install module and related content by @cdunbar13 in #4021

Version Updates ⏫

• Update a3ultra to 570 and cuda 12-8 by @samskillman in #3859

Bug fixes 🐞

• Address shelve permissions by @casassg in #3951
• Fixing the kernel upgrade flag for slurm image creation by @cdunbar13 in #4005
• Missed setting that breaks integration test by @cdunbar13 in #4029
• Fix placement_max_distance in slurm partitions by @cdunbar13 in #4030
• A3 Ultra Slurm: workaround temporary driver packaging issue by @tpdownes in #4059

New Contributors

• @casassg made their first contribution in #3951
• @gkcalat made their first contribution in #4019
• @rick154 made their first contribution in #4046

Full Changelog: v1.49.1...v1.50