The first beta release of ManageIQ Morphy is here! We’ve been working hard and have a lot of new features you can see in the roadmap. Here are the major highlights for this new release:

New Providers!

• IBM PowerVC
• Oracle Cloud

New Kubernetes Providers!

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS)
• Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

New support for Cloud Databases

• Amazon RDS
• Azure Database for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB
• Google Cloud SQL
• IBM Cloud Databases
• Oracle Cloud Databases

Provider Enhancements

• IBM Cloud VPC
  • Event Collection support
  • Targeted Refresh for VMs, Templates, and Flavors
  • Create/Delete of Networks, Subnets, and Volumes
  • Collection of Cloud Volume Types
  • Link Availability Zone to Cloud Subnets
  • Link Floating IPs to Instances
  • Provision VMs from Images/Templates
  • Delete VMs
• IBM Cloud PowerVS
  • Targeted Refresh
  • Reporting on virtual columns for Power related attributes
  • Reporting templates for PowerVS/PowerVC
• IBM PowerVC
  • New dedicated provider!
  • Collection of Cloud Volume Types
  • Support software license fields during provisioning
• Kyndryl AutoSDE
  • Predefined roles
  • Edit Storage Device attributes
  • Configure a Volume for Expansion
  • Validation check for CHAP Username and Secret together
  • Creation of multiple volumes in a single view/click
  • Edit Volume Mappings
  • Cross link between Cloud Volume and Host Initiator
  • Creation of host initiator with multiple WWPN for FC port
• VMware vSphere
  • Add support for 7.0U3
• Google Cloud
  • [Performance] Stop collecting deprecated images by default

Core

• [Embedded Ansible] Configurable verify_ssl for git repositories
• [Appliances] Move from CentOS 8 to CentOS 8 Stream
• [Installation] Gracefully handle installation with non-superuser PostgreSQL account
• [Performance] Improved database migration speed

API

• Throttle API requests
• Allow filtering ‘=’ via arrays

UI

• Add provider connection status errors to provider dashboard
• Add ability to edit physical storage properties
• Automation/Configuration menu reorganization

This release also included a lot of cleanup and refactoring, especially on the UI side, with many new screens being rewritten in React and using the Carbon UI framework for a cleaner look and better accessibility.

Many thanks go to all of the contributors for all of their enhancements and bug fixes.

You can download the Morphy-1-Beta1 release here.

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