Codename: Ursa Major - 0.9.9-beta

Release Highlights

• Docker support, ability to deploy Docker services and manage Docker containers
• Provider plugin for Digital Ocean added
• New UI, rewritten to be more modular and extensible
• CLI tool, allows interaction via simple commands
• Splits the Server APIs into internal and external APIs, served on different ports
• Node usage metrics, provides detailed metrics by tenant, user, or template
• Significant bug and stability fixes to provisioner and server
• Initial support for versioned templates
• Initial SSL support for UI and server
• New Services: Impala, Node.js modules, PHP modules, Docker, Nginx
• New Cluster Templates: Docker, MEAN

Change List

New Features

• COOPR-195 - Entity versioning
• COOPR-199 - Ability to suspend jobs
• COOPR-418 - Add more detailed usage statistics
• COOPR-493 - Add a command line interface
• COOPR-496 - Add some way to expose links for a cluster
• COOPR-497 - Split out sensitive config setting into a separate config file
• COOPR-513 - Add labels to admin entities
• COOPR-531 - Command Line Shell for Coopr similar to CDAP CLI
• COOPR-542 - Add ability to configure UI to use TLS
• COOPR-563 - Support for DigitalOcean provider
• COOPR-567 - Split server APIs to separate ports
• COOPR-594 - SSH Host-key validation
• COOPR-609 - TLS configuration for Coopr components
• COOPR-611 - Secure communications with SSL
• COOPR-615 - Secure communications with ZooKeeper using SASL
• COOPR-621 - Do not require Internet access for chef-solo automator
• COOPR-672 - Attribute-driven ability to install/upgrade/remove packages
• COOPR-674 - Support for installing Impala on clusters when CDH is installed.
• COOPR-678 - Docker Automator
• COOPR-718 - Attribute-driven coopr_hosts /etc/hosts ordering
• COOPR-737 - Promote angular-based UI to default

Improvements

• COOPR-64 - Confirmations should mention item being acted upon
• COOPR-300 - Move lease times away from milliseconds
• COOPR-338 - Improve disk handling for AWS
• COOPR-367 - Standalone should copy loom-site.xml.example into server/conf
• COOPR-500 - Include organization in pom
• COOPR-537 - Add documentation to Cluster Pause feature
• COOPR-545 - Better handling of memory settings for Coopr Server
• COOPR-556 - remove CORS
• COOPR-600 - CLI: doesn't show current user or tenant
• COOPR-601 - CLI: alias ? to TAB
• COOPR-604 - CLI: help command output should be more readable
• COOPR-605 - CLI: help should be context-aware
• COOPR-624 - CLI: output is always in DEBUG
• COOPR-639 - coopr-cli jar is too large (63M)
• COOPR-641 - Update netty-http
• COOPR-647 - Template dropdown should use label or name instead of description
• COOPR-665 - API endpoints should only return a single version
• COOPR-670 - Provisioner info log on create should show image name, not value
• COOPR-675 - refactor provisioner worker
• COOPR-681 - Command Line Interface should provide usage when given invalid command
• COOPR-722 - GCE handle quota exceed error
• COOPR-736 - Update fog to 1.26.0

Bugs

• COOPR-487 - Data disk mounting fails on Joyent/CentOS
• COOPR-488 - standalone script doesn't load defaults if restart is used
• COOPR-494 - Place safeguards in ClusterCallback
• COOPR-507 - Updated Coopr Docker images instructions
• COOPR-508 - Enhance Joyent delete to not fail on missing servers
• COOPR-511 - Google provisioner plugin disk names
• COOPR-519 - cdap singlenode logs fill up the root partition
• COOPR-538 - Default sudoers has requiretty on RHEL
• COOPR-544 - NGUI: Hide theming feature
• COOPR-553 - Cannot run tests
• COOPR-554 - Server queues broken in HA mode
• COOPR-557 - Flicker on welcome page when clicking on header buttons
• COOPR-585 - Using provider hostnames only when not configured
• COOPR-586 - cluster configs overrides service configs, need to do deep merge
• COOPR-588 - Standalone coopr.sh SSL code has broken startup
• COOPR-599 - coopr-cli doesn't build
• COOPR-603 - CLI: rename "sync plugins" to "sync resources"
• COOPR-608 - Can't run coopr-cli.jar
• COOPR-612 - maven-shade-plugin corrupt coopr-cli jar
• COOPR-613 - UI does not show log messages for failed actions
• COOPR-614 - CDAP singlenode template fails to start on AWS
• COOPR-619 - COOPR ngui shows cluster created message before creating clusters
• COOPR-620 - Auth server doesn't start with jdk 1.7 on secure hadoop/secure cdap cluster
• COOPR-622 - server /status endpoint not closing connection
• COOPR-623 - CLI: quit doesn't quit
• COOPR-625 - CLI: commands do not function when given on command line
• COOPR-626 - Server seems susceptible to hangs/failures when run in an HA setup
• COOPR-642 - CLI coopr-cli JAR is huge
• COOPR-644 - CLI move tests under coopr-cli directory
• COOPR-645 - Remove old UI integration tests
• COOPR-651 - Update netty-http to 0.8.0
• COOPR-652 - Calls to /status should set "Connection: close" header
• COOPR-660 - Coopr Server does not accept JSON input
• COOPR-661 - Coopr Server builds failing
• COOPR-666 - UI should not force base service on clusters
• COOPR-682 - Unused setting kafka.broker.quorum is added to cdap-site.xml
• COOPR-685 - server leaking zookeeper watches
• COOPR-686 - Coopr UI lease expiration slider broken/dangerous
• COOPR-689 - Dummy provisioner load-mock.sh uses wrong API port
• COOPR-691 - Can't start CLI if Coopr isn't running locally
• COOPR-692 - deleting of GCE hosts without a provider id dangerous
• COOPR-696 - google disk delete issues
• COOPR-700 - standalone data directory should be moved
• COOPR-702 - coopr_base::default fails for vanilla standalone due to users databag
• COOPR-703 - MySQL upgrade SQL script doesn't work
• COOPR-704 - ec2 key fields not populated with provider defaults
• COOPR-705 - coopr-base can interfere with sudo access in vanilla standalone
• COOPR-706 - Scheduling jobs fails after upgrade
• COOPR-709 - Registering provisioner capabilities causes an error
• COOPR-711 - After 0.9.8->0.9.9 upgrade, templates cannot be uploaded
• [COOPR-713](https://issues.cask....

Codename: Centaurus, Theme: Multi-Tenancy - 0.9.8-beta

Standalone Coopr can be downloaded here.

Release Highlights

• Project renamed to Coopr (Cluster Oriented Operations and Provisioning of Resources)
• Multi-Tenancy added, with each tenant having its own admin, users, and data
• Dynamic worker assignment, giving superadmins the ability to add or reduce provisioner workers on demand
• Plugin resource system introduced, giving tenant admins the ablity to add and manage their own resources like their own Chef cookbooks
• Provider plugins for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute added
• Additional cookbooks provided out of the box, including support for MongoDB, simple DNS, and Kerberos
• Multiple bug fixes

Change List

• AWS provider support ( Issues: #22 #322 )
• MongoDB support for clusters ( Issues: #43 #130 )
• Cluster size constraint ( Issues: #76 #418 )
• Remove 'ALL RIGHTS RESERVED' footer ( Issues: #123 #340 )
• Ruby testing with rspec/rubocop ( Issues: #128 #132 #133 )
• Nginx support for clusters ( Issues: #131 #323 )
• Sensu monitoring support ( Issues: #167 )
• Update 'IP' header on cluster page ( Issues: #204 #341 )
• Configuration settings renamed ( Issues: #213 )
• Ability to sync an active cluster's template to its current version ( Issues: #214 )
• Cluster owner macro ( Issues: #221 )
• Firewall updates ( Issues: #226 #227 )
• Memcached support for clusters ( Issues: #237 )
• Multi Tenancy ( Issues: #239, #253, #277, #284, #292, #325, #326 )
• Upgrade script ( Issues: #258 )
• Fix Joyent server delete ( Issues: #272 )
• Google Compute provider support ( Issues: #273 #474 )
• Provisioner Multi Tenancy ( Issues: #290 #296 )
• Updated provider plugin using fog ( Issues: #288 #310 )
• Queue Metrics ( Issues: #301 )
• Settable max for clusters and nodes in a tenant ( Issues: #302 )
• Bootstrap a tenant ( Issues: #304 )
• Larger HW: xlarge, xxlarge ( Issues: #312 #346 )
• SSH hangs on some providers ( Issues: #313 #351 )
• Allow non-root users for SSH ( Issues: #314 #320 )
• PHP module support ( Issues: #317 )
• Support for multiple IP addresses ( Issues: #343 #347 )
• Standalone build updates for multitenancy ( Issues #349 )
• UI: Add 'sshuser' field to imagetypes ( Issues: #366 )
• Added 'icon' field to admin entities ( Issues: #371 #431 )
• Added additional info in get clusters API ( Issues: #401 #430 )
• UI: fix when a provider type has no admin fields ( Issues: #409 )
• Provisioner setup script ( Issues: #521 )

Codename: Vela, Theme: Extensibility - 0.9.7-beta

Release Highlights

• Plugin registration to support surfacing of plugin-defined fields for configuring providers and automators
• Finer grained dependencies for service life-cycle hooks. This allows specifying install time, runtime, and optional dependencies. E.g. You may want some service X to be installed before service Y, or start service X after service Y but only if service Y is installed on the cluster
• Life-cycle callbacks for clusters for integrating with enterprise assets (e.g. Metering, Monitoring, ...)
• Ability to add additional configured services to an existing live cluster. (e.g. Create a Hadoop cluster with only HDFS and MapReduce and then later installing HBase on the cluster)
• Support for starting, stopping and restarting services
• Personalizable UI skins
• More out-of-box cookbooks
  • Apache Hive™ support for clusters
  • Enable a secure cluster with support for Kerberos
• Lots of bug fixes
• Lots of testing

Change List

• Finer Grained Dependencies ( Issues: #1 #70 #87 #96 #149 )
• Plugin Registry ( Issues: #5 #102 #111 #117 )
• Updated UI with skins support ( Issues: #9 #10 #160 #188 )
• Updated Rackspace support ( Issues: #38 #54 #88 #194 )
• Updated Joyent support ( Issues: #39 #54 )
• Cluster reconfiguration support ( Issues: #55 #64 )
• Hive Support ( Issues: #63 #86 #91 #92 #103 #108 #134 #146 #157 #190 )
• Add services to existing cluster ( Issues: #65 #66 #69 #78 #79 #83 )
• Start/Stop/Restart services ( Issues: #71 #79 )
• Prevent database column overflow ( Issues: #81 )
• Lifecycle callback hooks ( Issues: #93 )
• Kerberos client and server support ( Issues: #94 #99 )
• Secure Hadoop cluster support ( Issues: #95 #97 #99 #110 #144 #150 )
• Update /etc/hosts support for DNS Suffix ( Issues: #107 )
• Heartbleed OpenSSL security fix for Rackspace/Joyent images ( Issues: #114 #118 )
• Rename Chef Automator to Chef Solo Automator ( Issues: #124 )
• Solver performance improvements ( Issues: #147 )
• Remove redundant example directory ( Issues: #148 )
• Add service list to node properties ( Issues: #172 #177 )
• Upgrade script ( Issues: #195 )

Upgrade procedure from Release 0.9.6 to 0.9.7

This release changes the services JSON format. In order to upgrade from 0.9.6 to 0.9.7 please following the procedure defined here.

Codename: Crux, Initial OSS release

This is the first release of Continuuity Loom since its open source release.

This is a minor release, fixing a few bugs from the pre-release code.

• Don't overwrite /etc/loom configuration #7
• Default services subset of compatible #11
• Consistent LOOM_SERVER_URI usage #46

There are a few features which have been added since the pre-release code.

• Server HA using ZooKeeper for leader election
• Allow setting DNS suffix #23
• Shell provisioner JSON parsing #42
• Selecting provisioner bootstrapping #44