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v0.12.0-rc1 (6 March 2023)

  • Change the underlying Kubernetes distro to K3s

v0.11.4 (21 January 2023)

  • HOTFIX for flannel issues on Ubuntu versions lower than 22.04

v0.11.3 (4 October 2022)

  • support multiple docker logins by @jaydesl

v0.11.1/2 (27 September 2022)

  • Fix a rare race condition in rebooting the iptables service
  • Add full support for Ubuntu 22.04
  • Extend timeout for ansible-runner installations

v0.11.0 (26 September 2022)

  • Organise for a cleaner repository structure by @jaydesl
  • Bump Python packages and MiCADO components by @hmdcpc2021
  • Fix a permission issue, where users needed a password for sudo by @maystery
  • Re-structure directory structure for ansiblerunner by @jaydesl
  • Add Occopus worker node IP info to dashboard by @jaydesl
  • Add support for new EGI auth mechanism by @ResmiArjun
  • Support installation with ansible-runner

v0.10.0 (23 February 2022)

  • Make MiCADO-Edge release public
  • Support TOSCA v1.3 instance_count and occurrences for node replicas
  • Support the Kubernetes subpath feature for multi volume mounting
  • Update Docker, containerd, Kubernetes and KubeEdge versions
  • Fix an issue with SSH keypair name collisions in OpenStack

MiCADO-Edge (4 May 2021)

  • This "release" quietly merged the separate MiCADO-Edge feature branch
  • Add support for Edge nodes with KubeEdge <https://kubeedge.io>__
  • Add support for OpenID Connect Authentication in OpenStack
  • Add support for specifying the floating IP of an instance
  • Fix an issue where Playbooks would fail on first apt-get
  • Add support for drop-in Ansible plays
  • Organise Playbook as per Ansible best practices
  • Set best practice configuration with ansible.cfg
  • Support domain_name property for v3 Password Authentication

v0.9.1-rev1 (28 October 2020)

  • Fix an issue where Kubernetes playbook tasks would fail (ansible-collections/community.kubernetes/issues/273 <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.kubernetes/issues/273>__)

v0.9.1 (1 October 2020)

  • Add support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Add support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Improve RESTful nature of Submitter with v2.0 API
  • Base component images on alpine for a smaller footprint
  • Bump Kubernetes to v1.19
  • Support TOSCA v1.2 template files
  • Refactor custom TOSCA type definitions
  • Refactor Submitter parsing modules to improve parsing times
  • Refactor KubernetesAdaptor for more customisable resources
  • Improve validation of translated Kubernetes manifests
  • Support config_drive flag in OpenStack (Terraform only)
  • Port PolicyKeeper to Python3
  • Increase timeout for MiCADO component deployment (for slower machines)
  • Increase timeout for inactive worker node removal (for poor networks)
  • Reduce Prometheus default scrape interval (for custom exporters)
  • Add mode to Ansible tasks for CVE-2020-1736
  • Include hostname and IP as SANs in self-signed certs
  • Fix: enable secret distribution via ADT policy

v0.9.0 (9 April 2020)

  • Refactor playbook tasks to be more component-specific
  • Add playbook tasks for configuring and installing Terraform
  • Use the Ansible k8s module for managing Kubernetes resources
  • Optimise cloud-init scripts by reducing apt-get update
  • Fix Master-Worker Ubuntu mismatch bug
  • Handle undefined credential file path
  • Store credential data in Kubernetes Secrets
  • Support updates of credentials on a deployed MiCADO Control Plane
  • Add demo ADTs for Azure & GCE
  • Update QuickStart docs in README
  • Bump Grafana to v6.6.2
  • Bump Prometheus to v2.16.0
  • Bump Kubernetes-Dashboard to v2.0.0 (rc7)
  • Hide Kubernetes Secrets on Kubernetes-Dashboard
  • Refactor PK main loop to support multiple cloud orchestrators
  • Add Terraform handler to PK for scaling (up/down and dropping specific nodes)
  • Switch to the pykube package in PK instead of kubernetes
  • Add the TerraformAdaptor to the TOSCASubmitter
  • Bump TOSCASubmitter package versions
  • Discover cloud from TOSCA ADT type and deprecate interface_cloud
  • Rename ADT compute property endpoint_cloud to endpoint
  • Support insert in ADT to modify cloud-init cloud-config
  • Support authentication with OpenStack application credential
  • Pass orchestrator info to PK during PKAdaptor translation
  • Lower reserved CPU and Memory for Zorp Ingress on workers
  • Only deploy Zorp Ingress to workers with matching ADT policy
  • Bump Kubernetes to v1.18
  • Bump Flannel to v0.12
  • Bump containerd.io to v.1.2.13
  • Bump Occopus to v1.7 (rc6)
  • Bump cAdvisor to v0.34.0
  • Bump AlertManager to v0.20.0

v0.8.0 (30 September 2019)

  • simplify ADTs by introducing pre-defined TOSCA node types
  • add support for Kubernetes ConfigMaps, Namespaces and multi-container Pods
  • metric collection (disabled by default) is now enabled with "monitoring" policy
  • upgrade all components (Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, etc...)
  • introduce new Optimizer supported scaling
  • add MiCADO version on dashboard and Grafana
  • introduce log rotate for Docker and components
  • introduce node downscale mechanism with node selection
  • redirect stdout of scaling_rule usercode to different log file
  • add support of keystone V3 for OpenStack in Occopus
  • improve cloud API handling in Occopus
  • make the master node web authentication timeout configurable
  • make master-worker node VPN connection more restrictive
  • implement ADT-based application secret distribution
  • push cloud secrets to Credential Store at deploy time
  • implement Security Policy Manager adaptor in the TOSCA Submitter
  • add support for configuring application-level firewalling rules for the application through the ADT (FWaaS)
  • generate node certificate with the right common name for the master node
  • make the micadoctl command line utility to work after the transition to Kubernetes pods
  • fix keypair distribution to worker nodes
  • update TOSCA template for Kubernetes application-level secret distribution
  • refactor Kubernetes translation
  • fix Policy Keeper Kubernetes node maintenance
  • propagate Kubelet configuration to woker nodes
  • support system cGroup driver by Docker & Kubernetes
  • fix Kubernetes node objects to be deleted on "undeploy"
  • fix Occopus create & import actions to correctly raise exceptions
  • fix Occopus updates not to kill unrelated nodes
  • support updates of an ADT with no Occopus nodes
  • support updates of an ADT with no Kubernetes nodes
  • add a timeout to Kubernetes undeploy
  • simplify hosts.yml file

v0.7.3 (14 Jun 2019)

  • update MiCADO internal core services to run in Kubernetes pods
  • remove Consul and replace it with Prometheus’ Kubernetes Service Discovery
  • update cAdvisor and NodeExporter to run as Kubernetes DaemonSets
  • introduce the support for creating prepared image for the MiCADO Control Plane and the MiCADO worker
  • introduce the support for deploying unique “sets” of virtual machines scaling independently
  • update Grafana to track the independently scaling VMs from the drop-down Node ID
  • update scrape interval between Prometheus and cAdvisor to be less frequent
  • fix the Occopus Adaptor to correctly raise exceptions for the submitter
  • update Kubernetes Dashboard to improve RBAC permissions
  • update the Flannel Overlay deployment
  • update the Kubernetes eviction thresholds on the Master node to be lowered
  • remove Docker-Compose from Master & Workers
  • fix dependencies and vulnerabilities
  • add dry-run support for the Submitter upon launch of TOSCA ADT
  • add new api call for the Submitter to validate TOSCA template
  • improve Submitter logs
  • improve Submitter responses to users
  • improve handling of wrong template by Submitter
  • add support for hv_relaxed and hv_tsc CloudSigma specific properties
  • add support for tagging EC2 type resources
  • add disk and free space checking to the deployment playbook
  • update the Wordpress demo to demonstrate “virtual machine sets”
  • update the cQueue demo to demonstrate “virtual machine sets”
  • fix and improve the NGINX demo

v0.7.2-rev1 (01 Apr 2019)

  • fix dependency issue for Kubernetes 1.13.1 (kubernetes/kubernetes#75683 <https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/75683>__)

v0.7.2 (25 Feb 2019)

  • add checking for minimal memory on MiCADO Control Plane at deployment
  • support private networks on cloudsigma
  • support user-defined contextualisation
  • support re-use across other container & cloud orchestrators in ADT
  • new TOSCA to Kubernetes Manifest Adaptor
  • add support for creating DaemonSets, Jobs, StatefulSets (with limited functionality) and standalone Pods
  • add support for creating PersistentVolumes & PVClaims
  • add support for specifying custom service details (NodePort, ClusterIP, etc.)
  • minor improvements to Grafana dashboard
  • support asynchronous calls through TOSCASubmitter API
  • fix kubectl error on MiCADO Control Plane restart
  • fix TOSCASubmitter rollback on errors
  • fix TOSCASubmitter status & output display
  • add support for encrypting master-worker communication
  • automatically provision and revoke security credentials for worker nodes
  • update default MTU to 1400 to ensure compatibility with OpenStack and AWS
  • add Credential Store security enabler
  • add Security Policy Manager security enabler
  • add Image Integrity Verifier Security enabler
  • add Crypto Engine security enabler
  • add support for kubernetes secrets
  • reimplement Credential Manager using the flask-users library

v0.7.1 (10 Jan 2019)

  • Fix: Add SKIP back to Dashboard (defaults changed in v1.13.1)
  • Fix: URL not found for Kubernetes manifest files
  • Fix: Make sure worker node sets hostname correctly
  • Fix: Don't update Kubernetes if template not changed
  • Fix: Make playbook more idempotent
  • Add Support for outputs via TOSCA ADT
  • Add Kubernetes service discovery support to Prometheus
  • Add new demo: nginx (HTTP request scaling)

v0.7.0 (12 Dec 2018)

  • Introduce Kubernetes as the primary container orchestration engine
  • Replace the swarm-visualiser with the Kubernetes Dashboard

Older MiCADO Versions

v0.6.1 (15 Oct 2018)

  • enable VM-only deployments
  • add support for special characters in SSL credentials
  • fix missing vm instance number reset at undeployment
  • add option to disable auto-updates on worker nodes
  • modify default launch-order of TOSCA adaptors
  • add cloud-specific TOSCA templates and improve helper scripts for stressng
  • flatten CPU scaling policies
  • improve virtual machine build time
  • fix Zorp starting dependency
  • fix Docker login timing issue
  • remove unnecessary port from docker compose file
  • enable Prometheus DB export

v0.6.0 (10 Sept 2018)

  • introduce documentation repository and host its content at http://micado-scale.readthedocs.io
  • improve MiCADO Control Plane containers restart policy
  • fix MTU issue in relation to Docker
  • fix Occopus restart issue
  • fix health-checking for Cloudbroker-AWS platform
  • update host naming convention for worker and master nodes
  • make wait-update task idempotent in ansible playbook
  • fix issue with worker node deployment in EC2 clouds
  • fix issue with user-defined Docker networks in OpenStack clouds
  • make Submitter response message structure uniform
  • add 'nodes' and 'services' query methods to REST API
  • improve 'stressng' and 'cqueue' test helper scripts
  • add more compose properties to custom TOSCA definition
  • fix floating ip issues in the Dashboard component
  • add new links to Dashboard to reflect the changes introduced by reverse proxying
  • fix Dashboard to generate links based on the contents of the Host header to find the frontend URL automatically
  • make consul security encryption based on generated random key instead of static key
  • add reverse proxy, TLS encryption and application-level firewalling capabilities to the web interfaces exposed by the MiCADO Control Plane node
  • add packet filtering for closing down non-public ports
  • add systemd unit for MiCADO services
  • update the ansible playbook to use the built-in service module for installing and handling MiCADO services
  • update the documentation to reflect the changes after the introduction of reverse proxying
  • add support for form-based authentication of exposed web services
  • add COLA-themed login page
  • add the Credential Manager component to store and handle web service users and passwords securely
  • add support for provisioning a user to the Credential Manager via Ansible
  • add support for user and admin roles in the Credential Manager
  • add support for authorization of the web services based on user role
  • add documentation about the Ansible Vault mechanism to protect sensitive deployment details
  • add support for HTTP basic authentication for APIs
  • add support for making the web interface's listening port configurable
  • update the documentation of API calls in terms of authentication, encryption and reverse proxying
  • add micadoctl tool for user and service management
  • add HTTP method filter to firewall in order to control requests directed to containers
  • add support for IPv6 exposure of services
  • add IPv6 packet filtering

v0.5.0 (12 July 2018)

  • introduce supporting TOSCA
  • introduce supporting user-defined scaling policy
  • dashboard added with Docker Visualizer, Grafana, Prometheus
  • deployment with Ansible playbook
  • support private docker registry
  • improve persistence of MiCADO Control Plane services