Orthos 2 v1.6

The major theme of this release was introducing the integration with NetBox and removing the RackTables Integration.

GitHub Milestone: https://github.com/openSUSE/orthos2/milestone/6

What's Changed

• Cobbler: Fix Serial Console, BMC and Power Management deployment code by @SchoolGuy in #319
• Ignore Django test fixtures and add DateTime migration by @marv7000 in #320
• Format JSON fixtures by @marv7000 in #321
• Docker: Migrate test dump for devel server by @marv7000 in #322
• Remove requirement for DNS to exist before machine is created by @SchoolGuy in #307
• Migrations: Add initial data by @SchoolGuy in #306
• Remove hostnamefinder Django Admin command by @SchoolGuy in #323
• Improve host IP suggestion logic by @marv7000 in #325
• Admin: Fix missing tftp_server field by @marv7000 in #326
• Verify that new and old Machine have remotepower by @SchoolGuy in #327
• Allow executing dmidecode for aarch64 by @SchoolGuy in #328
• Feature: Setup Taskmanager in Docker by @SchoolGuy in #330
• Feature: Introduce meta app by @SchoolGuy in #331
• Add favicon by @hramrach in #333
• Feature: Add regenerate buttons by @SchoolGuy in #335
• Frontend: Split forms module by @SchoolGuy in #337
• Fix: typos and pyright by @SchoolGuy in #340
• Feature: Deprecate Racktables by @SchoolGuy in #341
• Feature: Docker reverse proxy by @SchoolGuy in #342
• Fix: Docker environment variable generation by @SchoolGuy in #343
• Feature: Fetch data from NetBox by @SchoolGuy in #332
• Frontend: Add NetBox-powered AddMachine view by @SchoolGuy in #344
• Update Django to 4.2.11 by @SchoolGuy in #346
• Add type hints according to pyright suggestions by @SchoolGuy in #345
• Re-Introduce RemotePowerType model for fence agents by @SchoolGuy in #348
• Virtualization: Get rid of reverse inheritance by @SchoolGuy in #351
• Fix virtualization UI not showing by @Ligju in #352
• Pull network interfaces from NetBox by @SchoolGuy in #353
• NetBox: Add per-machine comparison view by @SchoolGuy in #354
• Fix RemotePowerType migration by @SchoolGuy in #355
• Feature: Add NetboxOrthosComparisonRun UI by @SchoolGuy in #356
• Improve empty and none value display by @SchoolGuy in #358
• Models: Fix exceptions during fetch_netbox by @SchoolGuy in #359
• Add NetBox sync indicators by @SchoolGuy in #360
• Add Enclosures CRUD views by @FelixStegmeier in #361
• Documentation: Overhaul for 1.6 release by @SchoolGuy in #362
• Taskmanager: Fix URL in reservation mail by @SchoolGuy in #364
• Frontend: Fix stacktraces in the logs of orthos-testing by @SchoolGuy in #365
• CLI: Remove manpage from RPM-SPEC by @SchoolGuy in #366

New Contributors

• @marv7000 made their first contribution in #320
• @hramrach made their first contribution in #333
• @Ligju made their first contribution in #352
• @FelixStegmeier made their first contribution in #361

Full Changelog: v1.5...v1.6

Orthos2 v1.5

The major theme of this release was bugfixing issues introduced with 1.4

GitHub Milestone: https://github.com/openSUSE/orthos2/milestone/5

Known Issues

• Once a reservation ends, the associated machine is not actually freed. This is to be done manually.

New Features

None

Bugfixes

• Machines/BMCs without an IPv6 IP could not be managed #316 #317
• "BareMetal" wasn't an option in the Admin Web UI for ppc64le

Other changes

• Fix usage issue with Test fixture #218

Orthos2 v1.4

The major theme of this release was the upgrade to Django 4.2 and improving the code quality.

GitHub Milestone: https://github.com/openSUSE/orthos2/milestone/4

Known Issues

• Once a reservation ends, the associated machine is not actually freed. This is to be done manually.

New Features

• Require Django 4.2 #232
• Admin: Add fence_agent to overview list #246
• Cobbler: Use XML-RPC for communication #261
• Switch to Gunicorn as a WSGI server #294

Bugfixes

• Improve loading speed of the Add/Change page #226
• Allow architecture for network switches #235
• API: Fix adding BMCs via API #209
• Fix Virtualization Form #243
• Fix RemotePowerDeviceAPIForm #244
• Fix default selection of kernel device #248
• Restart cscreen after writing the configuration file #266
• Ansible: Fix issue with dmidecode custom fact #270
• Use if instead of assert to verify if machines need to rewrite parts of their configuration #311
• Ansible: Skip dmidecode fact in case of non-x86_64 hardware #314
• Hostnamefinder: Fix import (and add typing) #240

Other changes

Server

• Remove debug code and add typing annotations for Cobbler and SSH Code #225
• Change to the cscreen user (and revert back to_cscreen) #233 #234
• Remove cscreenrc lock #273
• Add mypy #236 #296 #268

CLI

• Add Specfile #237
• Add Integration Tests #239

Packaging

• SPEC: Use %autosetup #245
• SPEC: Add typing_extension for python3-asgiref #264
• CI: Autosubmit code from master branch to OBS CI project #265

Tests

• API: Add tests #241
• Fixup Django fixtures #227

Other

• Add community standards #315
• Blacken codebase #242 #258 #275
• Docs: Add configuration file format #251
• pylint: Remove default and removed options #274
• Serialconsole: Make default ipmi username and password optional #312
• ServerConfig: Make script directory entries optional #313

Orthos2 v1.3

This is the second stable production release for Orthos 2. It is tested against Django 3.2 but may also run with newer Django releases.

Known Issues

• Once a reservation ends, the associated machine is not actually freed. This is to be done manually.
• Adding a machine can be impossible due to timeouts if the list of virtualization hosts is too long.

New Features

• Migrations: The migrations are now shipped as part of the package and are no longer generated during the post-install RPM script.
• UI: "All machines" are now shown to all users, not just superusers.
• Cobbler: cobbler sync can now be additionally executed per machine instead of a whole domain.
• Machine: There is a new option to reinstall a machine automatically after its lease has ended.
• systemd: Orthos 2 now automatically restarts if it exits due to errors.
• Machine: There is a new option to move machines between domains. This is not covering all cases so please use it with caution.

Bugfixes

• Ansible: The task doesn't deadlock anymore.
• Ansible: The private key location and key name to execute a playbook are not hard coded anymore.
• MOTD: Upon regeneration, there should be no more "AttributeError"s.

Other changes

• Serial Console: The options are now sorted in the CLI.
• pylint: A lot of pylint warnings have been enabled and the code has been cleaned up to match the new rules.
• isort: Add tool to our linters and apply it to the codebase.
• Tests: Fixup and execute in our CI again.
• Various documentation updates and improvements.

Orthos2 v1.2

This is the first stable production release of Orthos 2!

v1.0 - First official version

This version still has issues, but works as expected concerning most important features like:

• Using cobbler server to create network bootloader configuration and dhcp
• Make use of fence-agents through cobbler
• Install systems (setup command)
• Create virtual machines (x86 tested only)
• Basic ansible HW info collecting

v0.1-alpha

First release, hardly tested, but 'should' work.