1.5.0rc1
This is the first release candidate for the 1.5.0 stable release of ARA.
Changes since 1.4.3:
CLI
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A new 'ara' CLI API client is now available with the following commands:
- expire Expires objects that have been in the running state for too long
- host delete Deletes the specified host and associated resources
- host list Returns a list of hosts based on search queries
- host show Returns a detailed view of a specified host
- play delete Deletes the specified play and associated resources
- play list Returns a list of plays based on search queries
- play show Returns a detailed view of a specified play
- playbook delete Deletes the specified playbook and associated resources
- playbook list Returns a list of playbooks based on search queries
- playbook prune Deletes playbooks beyond a specified age in days
- playbook show Returns a detailed view of a specified playbook
- record delete Deletes the specified record and associated resources
- record list Returns a list of records based on search queries
- record show Returns a detailed view of a specified record
- result delete Deletes the specified result and associated resources
- result list Returns a list of results based on search queries
- result show Returns a detailed view of a specified result
- task delete Deletes the specified task and associated resources
- task list Returns a list of tasks based on search queries
- task show Returns a detailed view of a specified task
More information on the CLI commands is available in the docs:
https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html
API server
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New settings have been added:
- ARA_EXTERNAL_AUTH for enabling Django's external authentication
- ARA_DATABASE_OPTIONS for passing options to the Django database backend such as SSL.
More information on the API server settings are available in the docs:
https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api-configuration.html
API
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- Added created/updated fields to list views (ex: /api/v1/playbooks, /api/v1/results)
- Added support for filtering hosts based on their results, for example:
- return hosts with no changes: /api/v1/hosts?changed__lt=1
- return hosts with failures: /api/v1/hosts?failed__gt=0
- return hosts with unreachable tasks: /api/v1/hosts?unreachable__gt=0
- Added support for searching results by changed (ex: /api/v1/results?changed=true)
- Added support for searching results by play, task or host (ex: /api/v1/results?task=<id>)
- Nested children resources are no longer returned, improving performance
considerably for larger playbooks. For example, querying a single playbook's
details no longer returns it's entire hierarchy of plays, tasks, results and hosts.
These must now instead be queried individually, ex: /api/v1/results?playbook=<id>
See https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/158 for details.
- The result statuses "changed" and "ignored" have been removed. These weren't
actually used anywhere, it was instead inferred by a combination of the status
as well as the "changed" and "ignore_error" fields.
See https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/150 for details.
- A new status was added for playbooks, plays and tasks: "expired".
This status is meant to be used to identify resources that have been in the
"running" state for too long and will never complete.
Use the new "ara expire" CLI command for expiring resources.
See https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/26 for details.
UI
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- URLs have been pluralized to match the endpoints provided by the API.
For example:
/playbook/1.html -> /playbooks/1.html
/result/1.html -> /results/1.html
- Links to playbooks from the index will now filter results by default based on
their status. For example, a failed playbook will link to results that are failed
or unreachable while a successful playbook will link to results that are changed.
When browsing a playbook's details:
- Links to files from task actions have been fixed to use the correct anchor
when linking to a specific line
- Task results are now paginated
- A search form has been added to the task results pane, allowing search
by host id, task id, status and changed
- The hosts table has been updated to leverage the new search
capabilities. Clicking on the host will search tasks for this host and
clicking on the number in status column for a host (i.e, "20" changed)
will search for that host and that status. As a result, host facts
have been moved to it's own column.
Ansible plugins
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- New feature: argument labels.
Based on the configuration, the callback will now automatically label
playbooks after specified CLI arguments. For example, when "--check" is used,
it will label the playbook with "check:True" -- or "check:False" when it isn't used.
- Starting with Ansible 2.8, the callback leverages a new hook in order to improve
the accuracy of task result durations.
See https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/173 for details.
Documentation
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- Refreshed installation docs into a "getting started" guide
- Added notes about installation on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 as well as Mac OS
- Refreshed and merged Ansible plugin configuration and use case docs
- Changelogs and release notes have been incorporated in the docs
Upgrade notes
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- The introduction of the new CLI adds a requirement on the cliff python library.
- ara 1.5.0 introduces significant API changes, some of which aren't backwards
compatible such as no longer returning nested resources.
- Two small SQL migrations have been added to remove result statuses and add the
expired status for playbooks, plays and tasks. Run them with "ara-manage migrate".
- "ara-manage prune" has been deprecated and is replaced by "ara playbook prune".
The new prune command provides additional filters in order to only delete
playbooks matching certain criteria such as label, name, path or status.