The ManageIQ Sprint 55 review details the progress made between February 27 and March 1, 2017, highlighting 144 pull requests merged across various components including the classic UI, service UI, and automation features. Key updates include enhancements to the catalog item API, integrations with Ansible, and significant bug fixes throughout the platform. The review also outlines upcoming community events and progress metrics, showcasing a productive sprint focused on improving overall functionality and user experience.

1. ManageIQ
Sprint 55 Review - Sprint End February 27, 2017
March 1, 2017

2. Overview
● Sprint Statistics (Oleg Barenboim)
● Community Update (Carol Chen)
● Classic UI (Dan Clarizio)
● Service UI (Chris Kacerguis)
● Providers (Greg Blomquist)
● Automate (Greg McCullough)
● Platform (Gregg Tanzillo)
● API (Alberto Bellotti)
● Quality Engineering (Dave Johnson)
● Discussion

3. Sprint Statistics
(O. Barenboim)
144 Pull Requests Merged for ManageIQ/manageiq

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

5. All Repo Stats - Top 10
(O. Barenboim)
Top 10 Repositories # Closed
manageiq 144
integration_tests 106
manageiq-ui-classic 97
manageiq-ui-service 32
font-fabulous 15
miq_bot 14
manageiq-gems-pending 12
manageiq_docs 10
manageiq-content 10
manageiq-providers-amazon 9
Total of 495 across ALL ManageIQ Organizational Repositories
New Repositories
● font-fabulous
● manageiq-api-mock

6. Community Update
(Carol Chen)
● Last Week in ManageIQ
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/02/februarys-final-weeks-work/ by Allen Wight
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/02/embedding-ansible-additions/ by Josh Langholtz
○ Contact John Prause (jprause on Gitter) if you’d like to contribute
● Upcoming Events
○ Cloud Management Workshop - CF/MIQ, March 22 in San Diego, CA
https://www.meetup.com/OpenStackSanDiego/events/236079244/
○ Barcamp, April 4 in Warsaw, Poland
https://osec.pl/barcamp/barcamp-kwiecien-2017
○ RailsConf, Apr 25-27 in Phoenix, AZ - http://railsconf.com/program#session-113
○ OSCAL, May 13-14 in Tirana, Albania http://oscal.openlabs.cc/

7. Classic UI
(Dan Clarizio)

8. Classic UI
Sprint 54 Sprint 55

9. Classic UI
● Bug Fixes
○ Fix filter by user on All Jobs and All UI Task screens
○ Fix missing form buttons on Catalog Items
○ Fix Snapshot revert
○ Fix to view multiple graphs in Container Metrics
○ Fix grouping in CU charts
○ Fix formatting of units for grouped charts
○ Fix creation of trees for new group
○ Fix adding Kubernetes provider
○ Catalog Items accordion - show all items (regression)
○ Display nested Resource Pools in summary page (regression)

10. Classic UI
● Technical Debt
○ Mixins
■ Removed unused compared_squash from compare mixin
■ Removed dead code, reorganized private methods in compare mixin
■ Refactor EmsCommon nested lists using GenericShowMixin
■ De-duplicate show methods using mixins
○ Formatting and styling
■ Replace performance chart zoom/unzoom images with font icons
■ Clean up custom font styling
■ Reorganized layout images
■ Quadicon size is always 72, simplify to reflect
○ Remove the unused jQplot charting provider
○ More toolbar refactoring (and more to come)

11. Classic UI
● Features
○ Power operations added to Middleware Server Groups
○ Add subscription backlog to replication tab
○ Control Action to run an Ansible Playbook
○ List and summary screens for Ansible objects
■ Credentials
■ Playbooks
■ Repositories
○ New Ansible Playbook Service Catalog Item (demo)

12. Classic UI
Replication Subscription Backlog

13. Classic UI
Ansible Credentials List View

14. Classic UI
Ansible Credentials Summary

15. Classic UI
Ansible Credentials Nested Repositories

16. Classic UI
Ansible Playbooks List View

17. Classic UI
Ansible Playbooks Summary

18. Classic UI
Ansible Repositories List View

19. Classic UI
Ansible Repository Summary

20. Classic UI
Ansible Playbooks in a Repository

21. Classic UI
New Ansible Playbook Service Catalog Item
Demo (Harpreet Kataria)

22. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
Overall Progress for Sprint

23. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
New Features
● Create Catalog item API
● Rework Folder Structure as per updated tabs
● Removed Admin tab
● Bulk Edit Tags (Services)
● Bulk Set Ownership (Services)
● Bulk Retire Now (Services)
● Bulk Retire Later
● Bulk Delete

24. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
Housekeeping Items
● Rework Folder Structure which matches the tabs in SUI
● Update Dependencies
● Separate out current karma tests in own dir
● All preparation done for transition to Angular 4

25. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Added Ansible Data
to Service Details
page

26. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Allow creation of snapshots for a VM

27. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● List & Deletion of current snapshots for a VM

28. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● List of Orchestration Templates

29. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Create / Edit Orchestration Templates

30. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
Bugs Fixed
● Snapshot delete all yields vm deletion (ABW)
● MyOrder- Remove button of the last order is not visible
● Fix pictures not showing in Mock API
● Fix label getting scrunched in /templates
● Pagenation and total items are not aligned at bottom of page
● Fix "Ordered On" date in /orders
● Fix "Created On" date in /services
● Fix "Updated" date in /templates
● Edit dialog page does not display correct fields
● Change of "Memory on Disk" metric name
● Fix $state.FeatureNav error when reloading a view
● Error creating duplicate catalog
● Catalog "save" button on Edit page is not enabled unless description is filled
● Current Service link on dashboard should show all current active services

31. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
Overall Progress for Sprint (ahead of plan) - 83 pts completed

32. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)

33. Providers

34. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)
● Embedded Ansible Tower Models and Workers
● Additional credential modeling
● Much more in Automate...

35. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)
Metrics for archived containers
Power Operations for Server Groups
Use Task Queue for several provider operations

36. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)
Allow override for Metric DB name
Inventory for S3 Objects
Disable Metrics and Events for unsupported regions

37. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)
● Graph refresh improvements
● Queryable provider registry
> Vmdb::Plugins.instance.registered_provider_plugins.map{|p| p.class}
=> [ManageIQ::Providers::Amazon::Engine,
ManageIQ::Providers::Azure::Engine,
ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::Engine,
ManageIQ::Providers::Lenovo::Engine]

38. Automate
(Greg McCullough)

39. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
Ansible Playbook Integration
● Create Ansible Playbook Catalog Item
● Create associated job templates for Provision/Retirement
● Create Ansible inventory when running playbook
● Automate method for dynamic dialog field to list Ansible credentials
Schema Migrations
● OrchestrationStackResource (Ansible Plays)
○ start_time / finish_time
● AutomationManager::Job
○ machine, network and cloud credentials
○ start_time / finish_time
○ playbook
○ hosts

40. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
● Control Action - Run Ansible Playbook

41. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
Generic Service State Machine for Retirement
○ Features:
■ Runs playbook
■ Uses retirement state to track progress
■ Marks Service as retired.
■ Does NOT remove Service.
○ Next Steps:
■ Optionally Remove service resources.
○ Future:
■ Create Request for tracking purposes.

42. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
Generic Service State Machine - Service Object
● Our Life Cycle state machines use different objects for processing. The use
of a single object enables the generic state machine to perform multiple
functions.
Changed:
○ Generic State Machine methods to use Service object for all
processing.
○ Engine to pass Service object to Automate.

43. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
Order service from automate method
● New method: create_service_provision_request
New OpenStack cloud tenant events (Action: Provider
refresh)
● Identity.project.created
● Identity.project.deleted
● Identity.project.updated
Dialog Field: Multi-select drop-downs
● Back-end merged
● UI in current sprint

44. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)

45. Platform
● Enhancements
○ Chargeback without Capacity & Utilization
○ Prohibit tenant admin from assigning admin role
○ Add a #backlog method to PglogicalSubscription objects
○ Lifecycle monitoring of embedded Ansible service
○ Remove unnecessary mechanisms around "configuring" central admin
○ Allow users to input ipv6 where it makes sense in appliance console
○ Replace homegrown IPv4 regexp with the built-in ruby version

46. Platform
● Bug Fixes
○ Ignore custom attributes that have a nil name while building reporting
fields selection list
○ Rescue worker class exceptions and move on in worker monitor worker
synchronization
○ Fix chargeback rate tier selection when using different units
○ Use “throw :abort” to halt callback chain in Job model
○ Require gem instead of static paths in manageiq-gems-pending gem
■ HA Failover Monitor
■ EVM Watchdog

47. ● Technical Debt/Refactoring/Tests
○ Jobs and tasks
■ Make Job belong to miq_task
■ Reference jobs through MiqTask on UI Task screens
○ Ignore tags in expression when parsing fields
○ Chargeback report generation performance -
■ Eager load Vm reflections
■ Use SQL filter in place Array#select
○ Refactor chargeback seeding methods
○ MiqExpression
■ DRY up custom attribute processing in expression fields
■ Remove display_filter_details method
■ Specs for loading virtual custom attributes from right side in
expression
Platform

48. Platform

49. Platform

50. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Enhancement to support reverting Snapshots on VMs (Tim W.)
Implemented via the revert action on VM resources
POST /api/vms/:id/snapshots/:s_id
{
“action” : “revert”
}
Sample response:
{
"success": true,
"message": "Reverting to snapshot test_snapshot for Virtual Machine id:185 name:'aab-ldap'",
"task_id": 47,
"task_href": "http://localhost:3000/api/tasks/47"
}

51. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Enhancement to expose new Authentications collection for queries and
deletes (Jillian T.)
○ Currently used for Embedded Automation Manager Credentials
○ New collection: /api/authentications
GET /api/authentications
GET /api/authentications/:id
POST /api/authentications/:id - action delete
DELETE /api/authentications/:id
POST /api/authentications - action delete for bulk deletes

52. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Enhancement to support creating Service Templates (Jillian T., Bill W.)
○ Needed for the Service UI
○ Currently supporting atomic services
POST /api/service_templates
{
“name” : “Atomic Service Template”,
“service_type” : “atomic”,
“prov_type” : “amazon”,
“display” : “false”,
“config_info” : {
...
“provision” : { … },
“retirement” : { … },
}
}

53. Quality Engineering
(D. Johnson)
Ansible Testing
○ Test Cases finished and currently under review
○ User Stories review in progress; all working features
have been approved
○ Currently testing whatever is available:
■ Embedded - backend done, waiting for UI
■ External - began testing Ansible Tower 3.1
■ Automate/Control/Services - testing in progress, waiting
for more functionality to be added

54. Quality Engineering
(D. Johnson)
Automation
○ 95 PRs Merged

55. Quality Engineering
(D. Johnson)
Automation
○ Our first sprint “1 - Ahoko”, finished yesterday
○ Improved running tests pass rate to 90+% on Euwe
○ Works completed including
■ A number of optimizations particularly
■ Test fixes
■ Rewritten Events Listener
■ Fixes for selenium keep-alive
○ Next up
■ More modularization efforts, some optimizations
and more widgetastic conversions

56. Discussion
Sprint 54 Review
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