- Update to 1.6.1 (2022-12-12):
- callback: Changed how ANSIBLE_TMP is found to work around a
behavior change in ansible-core 2.14 that ended up creating a
directory named {{ ANSIBLE_HOME ~ "
- Added a mysql extra to the python packaging for installing
the mysqlclient library. This is in addition to the existing
server and postgresql extra. They are used like this: pip
install ara[server,mysql,postgresql]
- Update 1.6.0 (2022-12-01):
It features a new "tasks" page to browse and search for
tasks across playbook runs as well as many updates, fixes and
improvements.
- UI
- Added a new "Tasks" page similar to the existing pages
for Playbooks and Hosts. It provides a browseable and
searchable overview of tasks across playbook runs.
- Refreshed the host index page:
- Added a column as well as search arguments for playbook
name (or path)
- Replaced the playbook status by a concise summary of task
status for the host
- Updated the playbook summary card to include the playbook
id, the version of ara as well as the version of python.
- Re-ordered and resized columns in tables to optimize width
and improve consistency
- Resized and aligned fields in search forms to use the full
width available
- Improved how task tags are displayed
- Updated HTML page titles to be consistent across pages
- Replaced fields for searching by task ID and host ID by
task name and host name
- Truncate name fields to prevent exceedinly large names to
distort entire tables
- Corrected card header font sizes in the host report page
- callback plugin
- Added support for recording the user who ran the playbook
- Added support for recording the version of ara as well as
the version of python used when running the playbook
- Added options ARA_RECORD_USER and ARA_RECORD_CONTROLLER
that can be set to false to avoid recording the user and
controller hostname
- Added support for specifying a SSL key, certificate and
certificate authority for authenticating with a remote ara
API server using ARA_API_KEY, ARA_API_CERT and ARA_API_CA
respectively.
- Fixed host fact recording to ensure it works when using
FQCN-style tasks (ex: setup & ansible.builtin.setup)
- Increased reliability and accuracy when recording results
that can arrive out of order when using multi-threading
or the free strategy by using the task uuid provided by
Ansible
- Truncate playbook, play, host and label names in
circumstances where their length exceeds 255 characters
- Ignore and don't record files in ~/.ansible/tmp by default
- API Server
- Bumped django requirement from 2.2 LTS to 3.2 LTS and
removed the pin on the version of psycopg2 accordingly
- Added a new configuration option, ARA_BASE_PATH, to let
the server listen on an alternate path. It will continue
to default to "/" but it could, for example, be set to
"/ara/".
- Lifted requirement on tzlocal, improve timezone detection
and mitigate when the timezone can't be found by defaulting
to UTC
- Several new database model and API fields:
- Added client_version and server_version fields to
playbooks, meant to represent the version of the ara
callback and server used in recording the playbook
- Added python_version field to playbooks to save the version
of python used by Ansible and the callback plugin when
recording a playbook
- Added a new "failed" status for tasks that is used by the
callback plugin when there is at least one failed result
for a given task
- Added a new "uuid" field for tasks which is the uuid
provided by Ansible for a task. It is used by the callback
plugin to increase the reliability and accuracy when
recording results even if they arrive out of order.
- Several fixes and improvements for the distributed sqlite
database backend:
- Added a new index page for listing and linking to available
databases. This is a work in progress that is intended to
be improved in the future.
- Return a HTTP 405 error when trying to write to read-only
endpoints
- Fixed the /healthcheck/ endpoint to make sure it is routed
properly
- Improved database engine settings and WSGI application
configuration The WSGI application should now always
be "ara.server.wsgi" instead of needing to specify
"ara.server.wsgi.distributed_sqlite"
- API client
- Added support for specifying a SSL key, certificate and
certificate authority for authenticating with a remote ara
API server
- Remove InsecureRequestWarning for insecure requests when
SSL verification is not enabled.
- CLI
- Fixed wrong parsing of durations longer than 24 hours
- Added support for searching playbooks by user
- Added support for specifying a SSL key, certificate and
certificate authority for authenticating with a remote ara
API server using ARA_API_KEY, ARA_API_CERT and ARA_API_CA
respectively.
- Docs
- Refreshed and improved the README, reformatted it from rst
to markdown
- Added a CONTRIBUTING.md file and refreshed contribution
documentation
- Explicitly call out and recommend setting up authentication
for production use in order to prevent leaking sensitive
information
- Improved troubleshooting documentation and tips to improve
playbook recording performance