Release Summary

0.14.1 - October 24, 2014

  • Fix console logging level configuration.

0.14 - October 24, 2014

  • AWS

    • Add support for creating S3 buckets (Thanks to Sol Reynolds).
    • Add support for IAM roles and other provider-specific server attributes.
  • RightScale

    • BREAKING CHANGE: Inputs are now nested one level deeper in a server config stanza.

      This was done as part of adding support for provider-specific server attributes. Prior to this change, one would specify the server template inputs in a rightscale server config like this:

      servers:
        my_rs_server:
          # other server attributes omitted for brevity
          provider: rightscale
          inputs:
            DOMAIN: foo.net
            SOME_OTHER_INPUT: blah blah
      

      Provider-specific attributes needed to create/launch servers will now be nested one level deeper in an attribute named after the provider. With this new structure, the corresponding configuration for the example above would look like this:

      servers:
        my_rs_server:
          # other server attributes omitted for brevity
          provider: rightscale
          rightscale:
            inputs:
              DOMAIN: foo.net
              SOME_OTHER_INPUT: blah blah
      
    • Propagate rs deployment and server name to ec2 tags.

  • Issues addressed

    • Fix handling of localhost in inventory
    • #11: Return sorted host lists for bang --list.

0.13 - October 17, 2014

  • Ansible integration

    • Allow setting some ansible options via bang config or ~/.bangrc:

      • Verbosity (especially for ssh debugging):

        ansible:
          verbosity: 4
        
      • Vault:

        ansible:
          # ask_vault_pass: true
          # vault_pass: "thisshouldfail"
          vault_pass: "bangbang"
        
    • Test against ansible 1.7.2

  • Add --no-deploy arg to only use existing infrastructure.

  • Switch to yaml.safe_load.

  • Improve compatibility with Python 2.6, including adding 2.6 as a Travis CI target.

0.12 - August 19, 2014

  • Update to ansible >= 1.6.3.

    • Allow ansible vars plugins to work.
  • Add RightScale provider.

    • Add server creation and launch support.
    • Expose underlying RightScale response for errors.
    • Implement create_stack() to create RightScale deployments.
  • Reuse existing servers if possible. Some scenarios allow a server instance to be found and usable as a deployment target (e.g. bang run failed but server instance launched successfully).

  • Allow configuration of logging via ~/.bangrc.

  • Add backwards support for python 2.6.

  • Reorganize and add new examples.

0.11 - January 8, 2014

  • HP Cloud provider

    • BREAKING CHANGE: Separate HP Cloud v12 and v13 providers. Users of HP Cloud services must now distinguish between the 2 different API versions of their resources.
    • Add new LB nodes before removing old; fixes error caused by HPCS’ rule that a LB must have at least one node.
  • Allow load balancers to be region-specific.

0.10.1 - July 22, 2013

  • Remove install-time dependency on OpenStack client libraries. Users who need OpenStack/HP Cloud support must now install those libraries independently. Details...

0.9 - July 16, 2013

  • Update dependencies. Now using:

    • Ansible 1.2
    • logutils >= 3.2
  • Fix #4: Set value for “Name” tag on EC2 servers

  • Fix EC2 server provisioning

0.8 - May 7, 2013

  • AWS provider

    • Create and manage EC2 security groups and their rules.

0.7.1 - April 16, 2013

  • Fix installation breakage caused by conflicting dependency statements between python-reddwarfclient and python-novaclient. The resolution was to remove the explicit dependency on prettytable.

0.7 - April 12, 2013

  • BREAKING CHANGE: In a stack config file, the top-level resource definition containers were lists. From 0.7 onward, they must be defined as dictionaries. This allows resource definitions to be deep-merged. The just_run_a_playbook.yml example was updated to demonstrate the new config format.

    This change extends the reuse of common config stanzas that was previously only available for general stack properties and for configuration scopes to resource definitions. Prior to this change, the main purpose for this deep-merge behaviour was to allow sysadmins to use a known working dev stack config file and specify a subset config file to override secrets (e.g. encryption keys) when deploying production stacks. With the deep-merging of resource definitions, deployers can override any part of the config file and break up their stack configurations into multiple reusable subset config files as is most convenient for them. For example, one could easily deploy stack clones in multiple public cloud regions using a single base stack config and a subset stack config for each target region overriding region_name in the server definitions.

0.6 - April 3, 2013

  • HP Cloud provider

    • Add LBaaS support.
  • Add “127.0.0.1” to the inventory to enable local plays.

  • Add deployer for externally-deployed servers (e.g. physical servers in a traditional server room, unmanaged virtual servers).

  • Reuse ssh connections when running playbooks.

  • Allow setting ssh username+password as command-line arguments.

0.5 - March 11, 2013

  • Expose server name to playbooks as server_class

0.4 - March 6, 2013

  • Update OpenStack client library dependencies
  • Add auto-registration of SSH keys for OpenStack

0.3 - February 11, 2013

  • Update ansible dependency to 1.0
  • Fix bug that caused a crash when running bang --list with a server definition in the stack config for which there was no matching running instance.

0.2 - January 30, 3013

  • AWS provider

    • Compute (EC2)
  • Inline configuration scopes for server definitions

  • Separate regions from availability zones

  • Fix multi-region stacks

0.1 - January 15, 2013

  • Core Ansible playbook runner

  • Parallel cloud resource deployment

  • Generic OpenStack provider

  • HP Cloud provider

    • Compute (Nova)

      • Including security groups
    • Object Storage (Swift)

    • DBaaS (RedDwarf)