Merge branch 'maple' into 'master'

Merge maple release branch to main preparing for release.

See merge request sassoftware/viya-ark!365

Author: kevinlinglesas

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog for SAS Viya ARK
 
 <!-- LATEST RELEASE START -->
+## Viya35-ark-1.14 - June 4, 2021
+- **Sumary**:
+  Enhancement of RHEL8 compatibility libraries installation.  Dropping unused feature.  README updates.
+- Issues addressed:
+  - SAS Viya Pre-Installation Playbook
+    - VIYAARK-253 - systemd DefaultTimeout parameters not needed
+    - VIYAARK-241 - Install missing RHEL8 compatibility libraries
+  - SAS LDAP Validator
+    - VIYAARK-185 - Address GitHub issue [#20](https://github.com/sassoftware/viya-ark/issues/20) - anonymousBind usage update
+<!-- LATEST RELEASE END -->
+
 ## Viya35-ark-1.13 - March 23, 2021
 - **Sumary**:
   Bug fixes.
@@ -12,7 +23,6 @@
     - VIYAARK-204 - Make yum cachedir path customizable.
   - SAS Viya Deployment Report
     - VIYAARK-242 - Deployment Report not reporting the status of "not ready" services.
-<!-- LATEST RELEASE END -->
 
 ## Viya35-ark-1.12 - February 16, 2021 
 - **Summary**:

playbooks/ldap-validator/Readme.md

@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ The SAS Viya LDAP Validator Playbook will try to validate access to your LDAP in
 * fetch group[5 users] attributes
 * fetch the attributes of admin user provided in the `sitedefault.yml` file.
 
+## Note:
+
+Set anonymousBind to 'true' in the sitedefault.yaml file only if you know that the LDAP server allows anonymous access. You must also set the User DN and password to empty strings to validate connection to the LDAP server.
+
+Otherwise, set the anonymousBind to 'false' and set the correct User DN and password values. With the correct credentials, the tool will successfully validate the connection to the LDAP server.
+
 ## Success Criteria
 
 If all tasks come back OK (green), it means that all the tests passed. If any test fails, an error message should indicate the reason for the failure. 
@@ -58,6 +64,6 @@ This is a list of future checks that should be added to this playbook:
 * confirm that SSSD or similar has been configured and that there are matching users
 * support passing certificates for the connection to LDAP
 
-Copyright (c) 2019, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.  All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2019-2021, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.  All Rights Reserved.
 SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 

playbooks/pre-install-playbook/roles/viya-ark.preinstall/defaults/main.yml

@@ -201,8 +201,6 @@ ansible_version_compare_max_version: "2.11"  # Must be set one major version abo
 required_python_min_version: "2.6"
 
 
-DefaultTimeoutStopSec: 1800s
-DefaultTimeoutStartSec: 1800s
 
 semaphores:
   - { name: kernel.sem.SEMMSL, value: 512 }

playbooks/pre-install-playbook/roles/viya-ark.preinstall/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2019-2020, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.  All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2019-2021, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.  All Rights Reserved.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 #
 ---
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 - import_tasks: pre.os_firewall_config.yml
 - import_tasks: pre.ntp_config.yml
 - import_tasks: pre.network_and_bandwidth_check.yml
-- import_tasks: pre.timeouts_config.yml
 - import_tasks: pre.swappiness_config.yml
 - import_tasks: pre.performance_config.yml
 - import_tasks: pre.locale_check.yml

playbooks/pre-install-playbook/roles/viya-ark.preinstall/tasks/pre.required_packages_config.yml

@@ -52,10 +52,33 @@
 
     - debug: var=missing_packages
 
+    - name: Install missing Compatibility Packages
+      package:
+        name: "{{ item }}"
+        state: present
+      loop: "{{missing_packages}}"
+      when: item in missing_packages
+
+    - name: Gather package facts again
+      ansible.builtin.package_facts:
+        manager: auto
+    
+    - name: Check whether Compatibility Packages are installed
+      set_fact:
+        still_missing_package="{{ item }}"
+      loop: "{{ compat_packages }}"
+      register: still_missing_package_result
+      when: item not in ansible_facts.packages
+
+    - name: Check again for missing Compatibility Packages
+      set_fact: still_missing_packages="{{ still_missing_package_result.results | selectattr('ansible_facts', 'defined') | map(attribute='ansible_facts.still_missing_package') | list }}"
+
+    - debug: var=still_missing_packages
+
     - name: Assert there are no missing Compatibility Packages
       assert:
         that:
-          - missing_packages|length == 0
+          - still_missing_packages|length == 0
         fail_msg: There are missing Compatibility Packages. {{missing_packages}}
         success_msg: There are no missing Compatibility Packages.
       when: not ansible_check_mode