Chris here, welcoming you to the first of the biweekly summer edition of Last Week in ManageIQ! Though, the summer solstice (for the northern hemisphere) already occurred on June 20th. And wait, that’s not even the start of meteorological summer which was actually on June 1st. Also shouldn’t it be Last Weeks In ManageIQ, then?

No matter. Let’s not sweat the details in this hot weather and just get to the good stuff.

Featured

60 pull requests were merged into ManageIQ core over the past two weeks.

36 pull requests were merged in the classic UI, 11 in manageiq-ui-service, and 35 across the various provider plugins.

Improved

Allow MiqWorker.required_roles to be a lambda (manageiq#15522)

This allows required_roles to use a lambda to define them, like MiqWorker.workers currently does. This allows for greater flexibility since you can now change the roles of a worker depending on what’s configured.

Ensure we test against a random, non-0 region (manageiq#15525)

Our test suite received an improvement in the form of random region testing. We previously hardcoded a region of 1 in all of our CI builds whereas we now test against random, non-0 regions to further cover odd edge cases with our test suite.

Fixed

Filtered tags sort order bug (manageiq#15559)

You once found yourself staring at an internal server error result while requesting an ascending sort order for filtered tags from the API. You’ll no longer find yourself staring at it, since it’s now fixed! You’ve got better things to do.

Fix VNC console connection to Windows VMs and Ctrl-Alt-Del button (manageiq-ui-classic#1672)

Similarly, you’ve got better things to do than stare at non-responsive buttons. Great news! These aforementioned buttons are fixed.

New

Bundler groups (manageiq#15459)

Ruby dependencies in ManageIQ’s Gemfile are now bucketed into Bundler groups, which should allow us some immediate memory and boot improvements, better organization, and eventual extraction of dependencies to code providing that feature. You can read more about it in the PR description.

Add validate_blacklist method for VM pre-provisioning (manageiq#15513)

Some providers have special blacklists for VM usernames and passwords that would pass a regex check but are not considered valid. For example, you cannot use “abc@123” as a password for Microsoft Azure VMs, even though that would normally pass a validity check. This new method now allows you to hook into the validation of these names and specify the provider’s specific blacklist.

Deleted

Save inventory container: remove target option (manageiq#15182)

The target option in the save inventory container was removed as it was unused, greatly simplifying partial graph refreshes in the future.

Miscellaneous

A PORT environment variable (manageiq#15536) and some leading blank lines (manageiq#15515) made their way to the chopping block, too. Yay deleting stuff!

Wrapping up

As always, this is just a small sampling of all the great pull requests merged to ManageIQ these past couple weeks. Check out the ManageIQ organization on GitHub to view the progress being made across all of our repositories, and don’t be afraid to join in on the fun and become a contributor!

Thanks for joining us on this summer edition of Last Week In ManageIQ! Whew, time for some lemonade