The ManageIQ Sprint 52 review highlights the completion of 128 pull requests, community updates, and various enhancements across the Classic and Service UI, along with progress on automation and API improvements. Key contributions include bug fixes, technical debt reduction, and support for new features such as improved sorting and orchestration template capabilities. Quality engineering efforts focused on preparing for the next maintenance release and enhancing automation testing processes.

1. ManageIQ
Sprint 52 Review - Sprint End January 16, 2017
January 18, 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 by Type
(O. Barenboim)
128 Pull Requests Merged for ManageIQ/manageiq

4. PRs by Feature Category on Master
(O. Barenboim)
*Some PRs have more
than one category.

5. All Repo Stats - Top 10
(O. Barenboim)
Top 10 Repositories Closed
manageiq 128
integration_tests 95
manageiq-ui-classic 71
manageiq-providers-amazon 14
manageiq.org 11
miq_bot 11
manageiq_docs 9
manageiq-ui-self_service 9
guides 5
manageiq-gems-pending 5
Total of 251 across ALL ManageIQ Organization

6. Community Update
(Carol Chen)
● ManageIQ Year in review 2016:
http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/01/year-in-review-2016/
● Last Week in ManageIQ:
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/01/blog-about-all-the-things/ by Drew Bomhof
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/01/destroy-the-monolith/ by Marcel Hild
○ Contact John Prause (jprause on Gitter) if you’d like to contribute
● Events:
○ DevConf.CZ: “Automating your data-center with Ansible and ManageIQ” by Daniel Korn - Jan
29 @ 13:00-14:00, room E112; ManageIQ Booth
○ FOSDEM: “Managing container infrastructure” by Piotr Kliczewski - Feb 4 @ 10:30-10:55,
room UB2.252A (Virtualisation/Iaas devroom)
○ PyCon Pune: Feb 16-19 in Pune, India https://pune.pycon.org/ ; ManageIQ pod
○ CloudNativeCon EU: Mar 29-30 in Berlin, Germany https://kubecon.io

7. Classic UI
(Dan Clarizio)

8. Classic UI
● Bug Fixes
○ UI support to add and remove Network Router Interfaces
○ Enable provisioning of instances from Providers view
○ Merge all timeline accordions under a single tree
○ Bug fixing and clean up for attaching/detaching Openstack Cloud
Volumes to Instances (to only list volumes that are in an available state)
○ Filter Recent VMs/Hosts charts by provider on Infra provider dashboard
○ Enforce Policy Event to at least have one action assigned to it
○ Some I18N related fixes.
○ Fixed Check Compliance button for Providers

9. Classic UI
● Technical Debt/Refactoring
○ Refactor x_button in the Container controller
○ Get rid of deferred_ui_lookup(), use I18N calls instead
○ Added ViewHelper for Controllers/Presenters capable of calling UI helper
methods
○ Refactored the ExpressionHTML helper to build <tags> using ViewHelper
○ Removed table tags around angular form buttons for styling, using
regular divs with bootstrap styling
○ Removed show_pdf from show partials
○ Removed some dead code from controllers
○ Split the "content" partial based on layout used
○ Replaced “.success” calls with “.then/.catch” in Angular controllers,
“.success” is not supported by Angular 1.6+

10. Classic UI
● Enhancements
○ Add and edit added for generic objects
○ Automatic detection of Hawkular hostname from route when endpoint is
not specified
○ Added new "Automation" Main tab, moved existing content one level
down under “Automation / Automate”
○ Ad hoc metrics - Added titles and spinners
○ Some enhancement work done for root node images in Trees. Use
decorators for certain TreeNode icons/images

11. Classic UI
Add/Edit functionality for generic object UI

12. Classic UI
New Automation / Automate Main tab

13. Classic UI
Ad hoc metrics Removed tooltips and add spinners

14. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Progress for Sprint - 100 pts completed

15. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Added Webpack
● Removed gulp
● Initial implementation of Protractor / Karma testing
● Added ability to sort by virtual attributes via API
● Added new UI elements...
GET /api/vms?sort_by=host_name&order=desc

16. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Added UI switcher (allows switching to different UI’s)

17. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Redesign of Services List

18. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Completed the following designs:
○ My Orders
○ Service Details

19. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)

20. Provider PRs across Repos

21. Providers - Containers
Performance Reports for Containers

22. Providers - The Rest
Proxy for accessing Google Cloud
Additional validation for VM reconfigure
Introducing Block Storage manager
Delete all resources when deleting a stack
Improve provider generator

23. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
● Automate Retry with Server Affinity
○ Allows an automate method to run retry on same
server
○ Useful when running a child process that needs to be
monitored.
○ Example usage
$evm.root['ae_result'] = 'retry'
$evm.root['ae_retry_server_affinity'] = true
● Continued work on extracting Automate Engine to
separate repo

24. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
● Ansible Integration
○ Service Design for running Playbooks
○ AnsibleTowerClient gem changes
■ Allow calling create on models
■ Expose
● ActivityStream
● Projects
● Credentials

25. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
36 PRs Merged

26. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
Ansible Inside
● Determine availability
● Process for embedding on appliance (in progress)
● Ansible role (in progress)

27. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
Chargeback
● Do not charge for future hours
● Do not charge after VM is retired
● Do not charge hours before VM was created

28. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
Central Admin
● Fixed encryption of data in encapsulated within a
provision request

29. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
RBAC
● Job Templates under Ansible Tower provider honored
● Providers list selection filtered when adding a new Catalog
Item

30. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
Euwe API v2.3.0 documentation merged and pushed to:
http://manageiq.org/docs/api

31. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Arbitration rules creation now supports arbitration profile references in
addition to arbitration_profile_id:
POST /api/arbitration_rules
{
“description” : “admin rule”,
“operation” : “inject”,
“arbitration_profile” : { “href” : “http://localhost:3000/api/arbitration_profiles/11” },
“expression” : {
“EQUAL” : {
“field” : “User-userid”,
“value” : “admin”
}
}
}
supporting arbitration_profile reference by href or id.

32. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Allowed tags are now available for request workflows
(Aparna K.)
GET /api/requests/101?attributes=v_allowed_tags
{
“href” : “http://localhost:3000/api/requests/101”,
“id” : 101,
“description” : “Provision from [aab-template] to [aab_test_vm1]”,
...
“v_allowed_tags” : [
{ “name” : “prov_max_cpu”, “description” : “Auto Approve - Max CPU”, “children” : [ … ] },
{ “name” : “prov_max_memory”, “description” : “Auto Approve - Max Memory”, “children” : [ … ] },
{ “name” : “cc”, “description” : “Cost Center”, “children” : [ … ] },
...
]
}

33. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Workflow class names are now available for requests:
(Aparna K.)
GET /api/requests/101?attributes=v_workflow_class
{
“href” : “http://localhost:3000/api/requests/101”,
“id” : 101,
“description” : “Provision from [aab-template] to [aab_test_vm1]”,
...
“v_workflow_class” : {
“instance_logger” : {
“klass” : “ManageIQ::Providers::Redhat::InfraManager::ProvisionWorkflow”,
“separator”, “#”
}
}
}

34. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Added ability to copy orchestration templates:
(Artyom L.)
POST /api/orchestration_templates/101
{
“action” : “copy”,
“resource” : {
“content” : “{ ‘Description’ : ‘test content 2’ }n”
}
}
Response:
{
“id” : 102,
“name” : “name_from_template_101”,
“description” : “Description of Template 101”,
...
“content” : “{ ‘Description’ : ‘test content 2’ }n”
}
Also supports copying orchestration templates in bulk via POST /api/orchestration_templates

35. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Enhancement to support sorting by virtual attributes (as supported by sql):
(Jillian T.)
GET /api/vms
?expand=resources
&attributes=id,name,vendor,host_name
&sort_by=host_name
&sort_order=desc

36. Quality Engineering
(D. Johnson)
General Testing
○ Working through Ansible stories for the upcoming Fine
release, still early though
○ Investigating vSphere 6.5 support
○ Trying to stand up Azure Stack environment for
investigation
○ Getting started on testing the next set of maintenance
release fixes

37. Quality Engineering
(D. Johnson)
Automation
○ 112 PRs Merged

38. Quality Engineering
(D. Johnson)
Automation
○ Navmazing conversion finished! (677 force_navigates
now gone)
○ Started on Collections + Widgetastic work
○ About to resync our master with downstream-stable for
upcoming testing
○ Starting to look at making all providers generic to aid
people wanting to add new provider models to the test
framework
○ Working on optimizing to make testing faster

39. Discussion
Sprint 53 Review - February 1