[debops-users] New DebOps stable release - v1.1.0

Hello everyone, It's time for a new DebOps release, this time with support for Debian Buster and improved Python 3.x compatibility. New DebOps release, v1.1.0 -------------------------- You can find the new version of DebOps on: GitHub: https://github.com/debops/debops/releases/tag/v1.1.0 PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/debops/1.1.0 Galaxy: https://galaxy.ansible.com/debops/debops/ (but see below) You can upgrade the Python-based installation by running the command: pip install --upgrade debops The support for Galaxy Collections has been improved, but there are still issues - namely, Galaxy does not support role dependencies properly[1], and because of that the 'namespace.project.role' role naming scheme cannot be used in the playbooks yet. Installation via PyPI package or directly from GitHub repository should be preferred this time around. Installation instructions can be found here: https://docs.debops.org/en/v1.1.0/user-guide/install.html The brief Changelog can also be found on the documentation page: https://docs.debops.org/en/v1.1.0/news/changelog.html The Changelog format was overhauled a bit and hopefully it will be easier to read, with separate paragraphs for each role and a few general ones. Complete, detailed changelog can be viewed using the 'git log' command. You can use the 'git log --no-merges' command to skip the "boring" merge commits. The DebOps documentation has a separate page which details important changes from previous release in the Ansible inventory or on the remote hosts which you might need to perform manually: https://docs.debops.org/en/v1.1.0/news/upgrades.html The Python packages available on PyPI, as well as the tarballs available on GitHub are signed with my GPG key. You can get it from the OpenPGP keyserver network using the command: gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net \ --recv-keys 27067A91D620EE91D50309D92DCCF53E9BC74BEC Since the v1.0.0 release in May 2019, there were ~477 commits in the DebOps repository, not counting merge commits. Here's the breakdown of the committers in the v1.1.0 release: 319 Maciej Delmanowski 59 Nicolas Quiniou-Briand 29 Robin Schneider 15 Christoph Johannes Kleine 11 Imre Jonk 7 Rainer 'rei' Schuth 6 Hartmut Goebel 5 Pedro Luis López Sánchez 3 Alin Alexandru 3 Thomas Danielsson 2 Alexander Mette 2 Evilham 2 Stefan Hornburg (Racke) 1 Aljosha Papsch 1 André Jucovsky Bianchi 1 Bao Nguyen 1 Carl Alexander 1 Chinmay Kousik 1 Florian Baumann 1 Gaudenz Steinlin 1 Leonardo Bechea 1 Marc Kohaupt 1 Patrick Hetu 1 Reto Gantenbein 1 Sergio Aguilar 1 Stuart Mumford 1 Émile Thanks to everyone involved for helping shape up this project, and see you in the commits. [1]: https://github.com/ansible/galaxy/issues/1938 Goals reached since previous release ------------------------------------ The goals from the previous release[2] were only partially met. I managed to fix issues with Debian Buster after it was released and proper testing environment was available. The AppArmor role is still not integrated with the main playbook, hopefully this will be done in the next release cycle. The 'debops.ipxe' role has been overhauled, but I see a potential improvement in using the 'debian-installer-*-netboot-*' Debian packages instead of downloading the netinst tarball directly. This would help if DebOps package gets included in the Debian repository. Improved support for LDAP in various applications as well as Golang redesign didn't make it this time due to time constraints. I plan to update the 'debops.golang' role just after the release to have that done early on, so that other roles can be updated during the release cycle. [2]: https://lists.debops.org/pipermail/debops-users/2019-May/000196.html Debian Buster has been released ------------------------------- The Debian 10 (Buster) has been finally released in July 2019! Congratulations to the Debian Release Team and all of the Debian Developers and Contributors who made this release possible. Debian Buster is the fourth release supported by DebOps - the project was started during Debian Wheezy (2013). Hopefully the next Debian release, Bullseye, coming in around 2 years or so, will contain a DebOps package with a long term support. Speaking of which... DebOps stable releases and LTS ------------------------------ After creating the first stable release of DebOps I realized that scheduled stable releases would work better than random ones. After a few tries on different ideas for stable releases, the schedule is somwhat finalized with four releases a year, every three months. You can view the current release schedule in the documentation page: https://docs.debops.org/en/master/news/releases.html#current-release-sche... The "normal" stable releases will be supported for a year, with an LTS release just before Debian Testing is frozen for the next Debian Stable, in 2021. Hopefully by then DebOps will be included in Debian repositories and an LTS release targeted just before the freeze will work well with 6 years of support during Debian Bullseye lifetime. In 2020, the release schedule will be "reset" so that releases happen in January, April, July and October. This schedule should ensure that the DebOps LTS release before Debian Testing freeze happens in October (freezes are usually in November) and there's time for the LTS release to enter Debian Testing. This may change when the final freeze policy for Bullseye is decided[3], so stay tuned. [3]: https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html Plans for the next release -------------------------- The big change that I want to implement for the next DebOps release in November is redesigned support for Go applications. This should open up lots of new software in DebOps - Consul, etcd, Minio, and other popular software written in Go. The new role will allow installation of these applications from .deb packages if they are available, or alternatively compilation of the Go binaries from source. Since Ansible 2.7, roles can contain multiple 'defaults/main/*.yml' files; this allows for much larger sets of variables without sacrificing readability. Some of the existing DebOps roles will probaly have their defaults split into multiple files, with the documentation reorganized around them (first one will be the new 'debops.golang' role). This is probably also a good moment to introduce support for OpenNebula into DebOps - I have a set of few roles for that project written some time ago, but since the number of variables required to configure the environment was very large, I wanted to wait for better defaults in Ansible. It seems that the time has come. I'm not sure if I will finish adding these roles before November, we will see. LDAP support in various roles still has to be updated to use the new infrastructure based on 'debops.ldap' and 'debops.slapd' roles. The Samba support will probably be my next target, to properly integrate the 'smbk5pwd' OpenLDAP module for synchronizing passwords between basic auth, Samba and Kerberos. I would also like to implement creating a set of '.deb' packages from DebOps source code, one with the project itself, and another with the documentation. The packages will probably be published in an official DebOps APT repositoory, managed by the 'debops.reprepro' role which also requires an overhaul. Until then, have fun. Maciej (>\---/<) ,' `. / q p \ ( >(_Y_)< ) / _.== ,=.,- \ /, )` '( ) ; `._.' `--< : \ | ) \ ) ;_/ hjw `._ _/_ ___.'-\\\ `--\\\