The ManageIQ Sprint 74 review, held on November 29, 2017, covered various topics including sprint statistics, community updates, and bug fixes for the Classic and Service UIs, as well as significant updates pertaining to providers such as Azure and Amazon. Key enhancements included support for custom actions on numerous API resources, multiple bug fixes, and improvements in documentation. The meeting concluded with a discussion related to the upcoming Sprint 75 review scheduled for December 13.

1. ManageIQ
Sprint 74 Review - Sprint End November 27, 2017
November 29, 2017
Meeting Start: 10:30am EST

2. Overview
● Sprint Statistics (Oleg Barenboim)
● Community Update (Carol Chen)
● Classic UI (Just Bug Fixes!)
● Service UI (Just Bug Fixes!)
● Providers (Daniel Berger, Adam Grare, Rich Oliveri)
● Automate (Tina Fitzgerald, Drew Bomhof)
● Platform (Gregg Tanzillo)
● API (Alberto Bellotti)
● Documentation (Chris Budzilowicz)
● Discussion

3. All Repo Stats - Top 10
Total of 444 merged PRs across 86 ManageIQ Repos
Pull Requests from: 2017-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to: 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC

4. PRs Merged per Sprint across ManageIQ Repositories

5. Distribution and Types of Merged PRs across ManageIQ
Repositories

6. Community Update
(Carol Chen)
● Releases
○ Gaprindashvili Beta
http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/11/Announcing-Gaprindashvili-Beta1/
○ Name of H-release
http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/11/announce_h_name/
● Last Week in ManageIQ
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/11/im-all-about-the-bugs/ by Julian Cheal
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/2017/11/bugs-in-fix-out/ by Harpreet Kataria
● Events
○ CFPs open for FOSDEM Devrooms (various deadlines up till Dec 15)
https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2017-10-04-accepted-developer-rooms/
○ FOSSASIA Call for Speakers (deadline Dec 27)
https://2018.fossasia.org/speaker-registration

7. Providers
(Daniel Berger, Adam Grare, Rich Oliveri)

8. Merged Provider PRs

9. Providers - Azure, Amazon, Nuage
Azure
- Resource group updates - STI, case and location issues resolved.
Amazon
- Enhanced list of events (cloud network - VPC)
- Various bug fixes - key pairs, empty Name tags and security groups, etc
- Smartstate updates (VPC/subnets, agent coordinator refresh)
Nuage
- Improved exception handling for raw_connect.

10. Providers - Middleware, Openstack
Middleware
● Re-add remove datasource operation (regression fix)
● Add missing middleware server icon in Policies UI
● Add Translation for Middleware servers so they appear correctly in Alert
profile listings.
Openstack
● Fix missing quota calculations
● Restore missing quotas in new graph-based collector
● Remove floating_ip_address from the create request if it is blank
● safe_call should catch Fog::Errors::NotFound
● Stop cloning of OpenStack infra templates

11. Providers - RHV, VMware
RHV
● Add routers, security groups, and floating IPs to network manager
● Collect “maintenance” mode for hosts
● Add a button to the provider page that allows to connect to the RHV admin
portal using the RHV provider credentials (supported for RHV 4.1.8 and
above)
VMware
● Collect Host UUID for cross linking with physical servers

12. Providers - Lenovo
● Physical server refresh

13. SmartState Analysis
(Rich Oliveri)
SmartState Analysis - Fixes
● Amazon
○ Fixed failure causing job timeout - mismatched hash
key name.
○ Code cleanup based on review comments.
● Windows guest
○ Fail gracefully when expected registry attributes are
missing.
● VMware
(same root cause: Host#address attribute removed)
○ SSA failure on templates.
○ Handsoap error on snapshot delete.

14. Automate
(Tina Fitzgerald)
PRs Merged: 21
8 - Enhancements, 6 - Bugs, 5 - Technical Debt. 2 - Refactoring
● Provisioning Dialog Displays Host Maintenance

15. Automate
(Tina Fitzgerald)
● Automate Method Type Icons
○ Tree View

16. Automate
(Tina Fitzgerald)
● Automate Method Type Icons
○ List View

17. Automate
(Drew Bomhof)
● Removed external dependencies from the manageiq-automate role.
○ Rest API requests handled by fetch_url (native to Ansible.)
● Created an example on github.com/syncrou/playbooks/test_playbook.yml that
automagically pulls in the galaxy role when run from Embedded Ansible or if
used from Ansible Tower.

18. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
PRs Merged: 41
16 - Enh, 21 - Bugs, 4 - Tech Debt, Tests and Refactoring
Enhancements
● Replication
○ Bumped the version of pg-pglogical to 2.1.1
■ Enables removal of a dropped table from the replication set
■ Fixes migration failure on remote region due to dropped table
○ Remove the column reordering tool and the schema structure validations
■ pglogical > 2.0 no longer requires schemas to be identical

19. Bug Fixes
● Fixed a stack trace issue (500) during API authentication
○ Caused by a race condition where the token invalidated after it is checked but before fields are
retrieved
● Fixed Tenant naming uniqueness check in global region
○ Scope Tenant#name validation to the current region
● Fixed error clicking on VMware vms PoweredOff rss link
● Fixed Expression builder argument error building an expression that includes
a VM’s Cloud Tenant
● Fixed error while generating Chargeback reports for cloud providers with
volumes
● Appliance Console issues - Improved error messaging
○ Fixed appliance console cli dump exception stacks if -k when v2_key exists
○ Improved reset database error when there are existing connections
○ correct error message for create internal database without unpartitioned disk available
Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)

20. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Performance enhancement for custom (button) actions
● Custom actions are no longer returned on collection searches
● They are only returned on resource gets
○ Single GET /api/:collection/:id
○ Multiple POST /api/:collection - bulk action “query”
● Added support for custom actions on resources (Drew U.)
○ Similar usage to custom actions of services and vms
Master and Gaprindashvili:
○ /api/cloud_tenants
○ /api/cloud_volumes
○ /api/clusters
○ /api/container_nodes
○ /api/data_stores
○ /api/hosts
○ /api/providers
○ /api/templates

21. API
● Adding support for custom actions on resources (Drew U.)
Master only:
○ /api/availability_zones
○ /api/cloud_subnets
○ /api/groups
○ /api/load_balancers
○ /api/network_routers
○ /api/security_groups
○ /api/tenants
○ /api/users

22. API
● Added support for custom actions on generic object resources (Jillian T.)
● Master and Gaprindashvili
● Custom actions on /api/generic_objects/:id
● Added support for Container Projects (Jillian T.)
● New primary collection /api/container_projects
○ GET /api/container_projects
○ GET /api/container_projects/:id
○ POST /api/container_projects - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources

23. API
● Added support for Container Templates (Jillian T.)
● New primary collection /api/container_templates
○ GET /api/container_templates
○ GET /api/container_templates/:id
○ POST /api/container_templates - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources
● Added support for Container Volumes (Jillian T.)
● New primary collection /api/container_volumes
○ GET /api/container_volumes
○ GET /api/container_volumes/:id
○ POST /api/container_volumes - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources

24. API
● Added support for network Switches (Jillian T.)
● New primary collection /api/switches
○ GET /api/container_switches
○ GET /api/container_switches/:id
○ POST /api/container_switches - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources
● Added support for Orchestration Stacks (Jillian T.)
● Previously only accessible as subcollection off services
● Now also exposed as primary collection /api/orchestration_stacks
○ GET /api/orchestration_stacks
○ GET /api/orchestration_stacks/:id
○ POST /api/orchestration_stacks - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources

25. API
● Added support for Cloud Object Store Containers
● New primary collection /api/cloud_object_store_containers
○ GET /api/cloud_object_store_containers
○ GET /api/cloud_object_store_containers/:id
○ POST /api/cloud_object_store_containers - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources
● Added support for Container Groups
● New primary collection /api/container_groups
○ GET /api/container_groups
○ GET /api/container_groups/:id
○ POST /api/container_groups - bulk action “query”
● Custom actions on resources

26. API
● Added support for Container Images
● New primary collection /api/container_images
○ GET /api/container_images
○ GET /api/container_images/:id
● Custom actions on resources
● Added support for Cloud Networks custom actions
● GET /api/cloud_networks/:id
● Custom actions on resources

27. API
● Added ability to refresh Physical Servers (Maysa M.)
● Supporting refresh action on physical servers
● These are async actions returning action results
● Single resource action:
POST /api/physical_servers/:id
{
“action” : “refresh”
}
● Bulk action:
POST /api/physical_servers
{
“action” : “refresh”,
“resources” : [
{ “href” : “/api/physical_servers/101” },
{ “href” : “/api/physical_servers/102” },
{ “id” : “103” }
]
}

28. ● PRs merged - 11
○ Enhancements - 10
○ Bugs 1
● Highlights
○ #586 Further updated to drag-and-drop service dialog editor instructions.
○ #590 Added TTL field to Ansible playbook catalog item.
○ #578 Integrated content on orchestration stacks into Provisioning VMs guide.
○ #580 Added Embedded Ansible role details to server role list.
○ #579 Conditionalized doc so database config only appears in downstream.
○ #591 4.6 Installation guide.
Documentation
(C. Budzilowicz)

29. Discussion
Sprint 75 Review - December 13
Meeting Start: 10:30am EST