Development Summary - August 18th

[Andres Rodriguez]

Friday August 18th, 2017

Hello MAASters!


We are bringing you the MAAS development summary for the last three weeks!


MAAS 2.3 (current development release)

The team is preparing and testing the next official release, MAAS 2.3 alpha
2, which will officially release the work done in the three weeks:


   -

   Support for CentOS Network configuration

We have completed the work to support CentOS Advanced Networking, which
provides the ability for users to configure VLAN, bond and bridge
interfaces, bringing it feature parity with Ubuntu. This will be available
in MAAS 2.3 alpha 2.


   -

   Support for Windows Network configuration

MAAS can now configure NIC teaming (bonding) and VLAN interfaces for
Windows deployments. This uses the native NetLBFO in Windows 2008+. Contact
us for more information [1].


   -

   Hardware Testing Phase 2
   -

      Testing scripts now define a type field that informs MAAS for which
      component will be tested and where the resulting metrics will apply. This
      may be node, cpu, memory, or storage, defaults to node.
      -

      Completed work to support the definition and parsing of a YAML based
      description for custom test scripts. This allows the user to defined the
      test’s title, description, and the metrics the test will output, which
      allows MAAS to parse and eventually display over the UI/API.



   -

   Network beaconing & better network discovery
   -

      Beaconing is now fully functional for controller registration and
      interface updates!
      -

      When registering or updating a new controller (either the first
      standalone controller, or a secondary/HA controller), new interfaces that
      have been determined to be on an existing VLAN will not cause a
new fabric
      to be created in MAAS.



   -

   Switch modeling
   -

      The basic database model for the new switching model has been
      implemented.
      -

      On-going progress of presenting switches in the node listing is under
      way.
      -

      Work is in-progress to allow MAAS to deploy a rack controller which
      will be utilized when deploying a new switch with MAAS.



   -

   Minor UI improvements
   -

      Renamed “Device Discovery” to “Network Discovery”.
      -

      Discovered devices where MAAS cannot determine the hostname now just
      show the hostname as “unknown” and grayed out instead of using the MAC
      address manufacturer as the hostname.



   -

   Bug fixes:
   -

      LP: #1704444 - MAAS API returns 500 internal server error instead of
      raising actual error.
      -

      LP: #1705501 - django warning on install
      -

      LP: #1707971 - MAAS becomes unstable after rack controller restarts
      -

      LP: #1708052 - Quick erase doesn’t remove md superblock
      -

      LP: #1710681 - Cannot delete an Ubuntu image, “Update Selection” is
      disabled


MAAS 2.2.2 Released in the Ubuntu Archive!

MAAS 2.2.2 has now also been released in the Ubuntu Archive. For more
details on MAAS 2.2.2, please refer to [2] for more information!


[1]: https://maas.io/contact-us

[2]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maas-devel/2017-August/002663.html


-- 
Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, MAAS
Canonical USA, Inc.
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