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Release notes for 0.41

Common

Function to get the last output of a command that uses run() #104

task "prepare", "mysystem01", sub {
install "ntp";
say last_command_output;
};

Refactored Cron module, added environment variable support to cron

task "prepare", "mysystem01", sub {
my @env = cron env => user => list;
cron env => user => add    => { MYVAR => "foo", };
cron env => user => delete => "MYVAR";
};

New sync module

This module doesn't use rsync, so it works with sudo and Windows, too. And it is also possible to use it with templates. If a file should be used as a template, you have to name it somefile.ext.tpl.

task "prepare", "mysystem01", sub {

    # upload directory recursively to remote system.
    sync_up "/local/directory", "/remote/directory";

    sync_up "/local/directory", "/remote/directory", {

        # setting custom file permissions for every file
        files => {
            owner => "foo",
            group => "bar",
            mode  => 600,
        },

        # setting custom directory permissions for every directory
        directories => {
            owner => "foo",
            group => "bar",
            mode  => 700,
        },
    };

    # download a directory recursively from the remote system to the local machine
    sync_down "/remote/directory", "/local/directory";
};

added Hardware::VirtInfo module #119 - Franky Van Liedekerke

To get a list of all returned information:

use Data::Dumper;
my %hw_info = Rex::Hardware->get(qw/VirtInfo/);
print Dumper( \%hw_info );

To get the hypervisor:

task "info", "mysystem01", sub {
    my %hw_info = Rex::Hardware->get(qw/VirtInfo/);

    say "Role: " . $hw_info{VirtInfo}->{virtualization_role};
    say "Type: " . $hw_info{VirtInfo}->{virtualization_type};
};

new keyword "case"

task "prepare", "myserver01", sub {
my $package = case operating_system, {
    Debian    => "vim",
      CentOS  => "vim-enhanced",
      default => "vim",
};


install $package;
};

Refactored net_ssh2_exec() function - Peter H. Ezetta
Refactored local command execution to use IPC::Open3
Changed the is_installed() function for Debian to use the more accurate get_installed function. - Samuele Tognini
'-t' option should work with '-e' option. rex -t 2 -H "hostA hostB" -e 'run "sleep 10"; say run "uptime"' should run in parallel. - Tokuhiro Matsuno
Fixed loading of modules in $HOME/.rex/recipes
Don't calculate MD5 sums if there is no on_change hook for file() function - Franky Van Liedekerke
More specific error messages for authentication - Franky Van Liedekerke

Cloud/Amazon: support multiple security groups - RenatoCRON

$instance = cloud_instance create => {
image_id        => "ami-5187bb25",
name            => "test01",
key             => "thekey",
zone            => "eu-west-1a",
type            => "m1.large",
security_groups => [ "alltcpfoo", "default" ],
};

Documentation

Fix pod about pubkey authentication - Joris

Rex/Gearman

Fixed get_exit_codes use flag

Rex/Boxes

Creation order of VMs can now be defined in YAML file

type: VBox
#vbox:
#   headless: 1
vms:
   -  name: mem01
      url: http://box.rexify.org/box/ubuntu-server-12.10-amd64.ova
      network:
         1:
            type: bridged
            bridge: "en0: Ethernet"
      setup: setup_memcache
   -  name: db01
      url: http://box.rexify.org/box/ubuntu-server-12.10-amd64.ova
      network:
         1:
            type: bridged
            bridge: "en0: Ethernet"
      setup: setup_db
   -  name: www01
      url: http://box.rexify.org/box/ubuntu-server-12.10-amd64.ova
      network:
         1:
            type: bridged
            bridge: "en0: Ethernet"
      setup: setup_frontend

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