Sprint Statistics (Oleg Barenboim) Community Update (Carol Chen) Providers (Bronagh Sorota, Alissa Bonas, Greg McCullough) User Interface (Dan Clarizio) Platform (Gregg Tanzillo) REST API (Alberto Bellotti) Service Broker (Chris Kacerguis) Automate (Greg McCullough, Madhu Kanoor) SmartState (Rich Oliveri) Performance (Dennis Metzger) Discussion

1. ManageIQ
Sprint 43 Review - Sprint End July 11, 2016
July 13, 2016

2. Overview
● Sprint Statistics (Oleg Barenboim)
● Community Update (Carol Chen)
● Providers (Bronagh Sorota, Alissa Bonas, Greg
McCullough)
● User Interface (Dan Clarizio)
● Platform (Gregg Tanzillo)
● REST API (Alberto Bellotti)
● Service Broker (Chris Kacerguis)
● Automate (Greg McCullough, Madhu Kanoor)
● SmartState (Rich Oliveri)
● Performance (Dennis Metzger)
● Discussion

3. Sprint Statistics
(O. Barenboim)
329 Pull Requests Merged

4. PR Breakdown by Feature Category
(O. Barenboim)
* Note that some PRs
have more than one
category.
Providers

5. Sprint Comparison
(O. Barenboim)

6. All Repo Stats
(O. Barenboim)
Repository Merged
manageiq 329
integration_tests 46
manageiq-providers-amazon 11
miq_bot 11
manageiq-ui-self_service 7
manageiq.org 5
guides 4
manageiq-appliance 3
manageiq-appliance-build 3
ovirt 3
ansible_tower_client 2
mangeiq-api-client 2
handsoap 1
linux_admin 1
manageiq_core_extensions 1
rubyrep 1
wrapapi 1
Total 430

7. Darga-2
● Released on June 30, 2016
● Blog post: http://manageiq.org/blog/2016/06/darga-2-announcementt/
● Download: http://manageiq.org/download/

8. Community Update
(Carol Chen)
● ManageIQ Design Summit 2016
○ Video recordings of the sessions are being uploaded to the playlist this week
○ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQAAGwo9CYO-4tQsnC6oWgzhPNOykOOMd
○ Thanks for all your feedback! They are extremely helpful in our plans for future events
● Red Hat Summit 2016
○ ManageIQ booth in the Community Central
○ Received lots of interest from users, developers, partners, Red Hat customers, etc.
○ Check out some highlights on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=manageiq%
20rhsummit&src=typd
● Manageiq.org website
○ Redesign of the web site, planning started - initial messaging, wireframes
○ Improved user experience, updated info and documentation, and more
○ Next steps: gather content, requirements, decide on implementation tools
○ Will be integrated with github, so everyone can contribute easily by submitting PRs with
content in markdown

9. Providers
(B. Sorota)

10. Providers - Amazon
(B. Sorota)
● Public Images Filter

11. Providers - Networking
(B. Sorota)
● Separate Google Network Manager
● NFV: VNFD Templates and VNF Stacks

12. Providers - Pluggability
(B. Sorota)
● SupportsFeatureMixin
○ supports :provisioning
○ supports :discovery
● Amazon Provider Repository!

13. Providers - Hawkular
(A. Bonas)
● New operations on servers and deployments
○ Undeploy/redeploy a deployment entity
○ Reload/suspend/resume servers
● Live metrics
○ Added for datasources and transactions
○ Refactor infrastructure for easier configuration
● Performance reports for middleware servers
● Alerts - added support for alert profile and alert
automated expressions for middleware server

14. Providers - Hawkular
(A. Bonas)
● Crosslink middleware servers with RHEV VMs
● Collect and display deployment status
● Add datasources to topology view
● Icons
○ Resolve missing icons in several views
○ Add new icons (jms) and enhance existing icons
● Upgraded hawkular gem version to 2.2.1
● Solve misc bugs (UI, refresher, etc.)

15. Providers - AnsibleTower
Greg McCullough
● Automate Method updated to pass JobTemplate “Extra
Variables” defined in the Provision Task
○ Any keys in the options hash starting with ‘dialog_param_’ are passed to
AnsibleTower when launching the JobTemplate

16. User Interface
Dan Clarizio
● PRs merged (147)
○ SSUI (10)
○ Bugs (68)
○ Enhancements (25)
○ Backported to Darga (55)
● Refactoring
○ Default Filters tree converted to TreeBuilder - more on the way
○ Cloud Key Pair form converted to AngularJS (Dana - UX team)
○ Toolbars - Cleaned up partials, YAML -> classes
● Enhancements
○ Settings moved to top right navigation header
○ C3 Charts fully implemented - chart interaction coming soon!
○ Tagging for Ansible job templates
○ Live Search added to bootstrap selects
○ Self Service UI Order History
○ Provider forms - Credentials Validation improvements

17. User Interface
Settings moved to top right header
New
Old

18. User Interface
C3 Charts fully implemented

19. User Interface
Live Search added to bootstrap selects

20. User Interface
SSUI Order History - My Orders Tab

21. User Interface
SSUI Order History - Order Detail

22. User Interface
SSUI Order History - Request Detail

23. User Interface
Provider Credentials Validation and Recheck Authentication
Demos

24. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Enhancements and Bug Fixes
● PostgreSQL upgrade
● Custom Attributes - reporting, expressions
● Rest API

25. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
PostgreSQL
● PostgreSQL upgraded to 9.5
● Necessary for in progress HA feature
● Included in nightly build

26. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Custom Attributes - Reporting editor (old way)
● Name and Value were listed as separate columns

27. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Custom Attributes - Reporting output (old way)
● Name and Value were reported on separate columns

28. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Custom Attributes - Reporting editor (new way)
● CustomAttribute.name is now selectable as a column

29. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Custom Attributes - Reporting output (new way)
● CustomAttribute.value is now reported in the column titled
with the corresponding CustomAttribute.name

30. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Custom Attributes - Supported in report filters...

31. Platform
Gregg Tanzillo
Custom Attributes - and in charts

32. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Refactoring
Goal - moving monolithic ApiController to OO model with
collection specific classes and inheriting generic methods.
● Api::Settings for accessing api.yml
● @req encapsulated as RequestAdapter
● Rails routing for API now driven by api.yml
● Clarifying rspecs

33. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for Report schedules
● Adding a schedule to a report:
POST /api/reports/:id
{
“action” : “schedule”,
“resource” : { … }
}
Schedule can include: name, enabled, description, start_date, interval, …
● GET /api/reports/:id/schedules
● GET /api/reports/:id/schedules/:schedule_id

34. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for approving or denying service
requests:
POST /api/service_requests/:id - Approving a service request
{
“action” : “approve”,
“resource” : { “reason” : “approve reason” }
}
POST /api/service_requests/:id - Denying a service request
{
“action” : “deny”,
“resource” : { “reason” : “deny reason” }
}
POST /api/service_requests - Approving or Denying multiple service requests

35. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for Openshift Container
Deployments:
Provided via a new collection /api/container_deployments:
Fetching data used for container deployments:
● GET /api/container_deployments/container_deployment_data
Creating and Querying container deployments:
● POST /api/container_deployments - Creating a new container deployment
● GET /api/container_deployments/:id - Get a specific container deployment
● GET /api/container_deployments - Querying all container deployments

36. REST API
Alberto Bellotti
Added support for Virtual Templates:
Capability provided via a new /api/virtual_templates collection
● Full CRUD on /api/virtual_templates
○ GET /api/virtual_templates - Query all virtual templates
○ GET /api/virtual_templates/:id - Query single virtual template
○ POST /api/virtual_templates - Create a new virtual template
○ POST /api/virtual_templates/:id - action “edit” to edit a virtual template
○ DELETE /api/virtual_templates/:id - Delete a virtual template
○ POST /api/virtual_templates/:id - action “delete” to delete a virtual template
● Also adding support for provision action
○ POST /api/virtual_templates/:id - action “provision” to provision a virtual template

37. Service Broker
Chris Kacerguis
● Started work on Server Broker - Allow ManageIQ to select
VM for you based on criteria (cloud, cost, or performance)
● Added API backend for Resourceless Servers
(api/virtual_templates)
● Added datastore for the default settings for resourceless
servers

38. Automate
Greg McCullough
● Generic Object
○ Model refactoring / Cleanup
○ Change to use PostgreSQL jsonb column
○ In progress: Relationships
● Service resolution based on Provision Order
○ Added ‘sequencer’ state to Service state machines
○ New state runs existing ‘GroupSequenceCheck’ method
■ CatalogItemInitialization, provision_from_bundle
○ Updated Namespaces:
■ ManageIQ / Cloud / Orchestration / Provisioning / StateMachine
■ ManageIQ / ConfigurationManagement / AnsibleTower / Service / Provisioning / StateMachines
■ ManageIQ / Service / Provisioning / StateMachines

39. ● Add /System/Process/MiqEvent instance
○ Problem: After Event-Switchboard refactoring the
/System/Process/Event instance requires an event object (not just an
event name) to resolve the instance path.
○ Solution: The new MiqEvent instance enables a user to create custom
buttons or Simulate to run and use simulate for MiqEvents.
○ Example: VM retirement warn from custom button on VM
● Added Provider refresh call to Amazon retire state
machine in Pre-Retirement state.
○ Avoids retry timeouts waiting for updated Provider inventory data
Automate
Greg McCullough

40. Automate
Greg McCullough
● Service Dialogs
○ Added ‘Visible’ flag to all dialog fields
○ In progress: Setting visible property from Dynamic dialog script

41. Null Coalescing Operator
● Multiple String values separated by “||”
● Evaluated on new attribute data type “Null Coalescing”
● Order dependent, left to right evaluation
● First non-blank value is used
● Skip and warn about missing objects
e.g.
${/#owner.email} || ${/#miq_request.get_option(:owner_email)} || ${/#miq_request.
requester.email} || ${/#config.to_email_address}
Automate
Madhu Kanoor

42. Automate
Madhu Kanoor

43. Accessing VMDB objects
● Class Schema allows for the following new data types
○ EMS (Provider)
○ Host
○ Policy
○ Provision
○ Request
○ Server
○ Storage
○ User
○ VM (or Template)
● The value contains the id of the object
○ e.g. ${/#vm.evm_owner_id}
● If the object is not found the attribute is not defined
Automate
Madhu Kanoor

44. Automate
Madhu Kanoor

45. Sample Instance
Automate
Madhu Kanoor

46. SmartState
(Rich Oliveri)
● Added generalized disk LRU caching module.
○ Currently, caching implemented in disk modules that
require it.
○ Caching module can be used by any disk module -
eliminating duplication.
○ Can be inserted “higher” in the IO path.
○ Configurable caching parameters (memory vs
performance)
○ Will be employed to address Azure performance and
throttling issues.
○ Other disk modules converted over time.

47. Performance
(Dennis Metzger)
● 12 Performance PRs Merged
● Cap & U Improvements
○ Driven by the need to reduce collection scheduling time
○ Reduced number of SQL queries
○ Reduced number of objects
● Improved tag processing related to Alert Profiles
○ Reduced memory consumption by 50%
● UI Performance
○ Specific pages targeted based on customer feedback
○ Up to a 98% reduction in rendering times
■ e.g. Services to Request from 11.6 seconds to 0.25 seconds

48. Discussion
Sprint 44 Review - August 3