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Release notes for 0.40
Common
Added basic CMDB interface.
The first CMDB module is based on YAML files. With this change there will be also a default environment under which rex runs. The default environment is named * drum roll * "default".
use Cwd 'getcwd';
use Rex::CMDB;
set cmdb => {
type => "YAML",
path => getcwd() . "/cmdb",
};
task "prepare", sub {
my $vhosts = get cmdb "vhosts";
};
This will search the given cmdb path for the following files (in the named order):
- cmdb/$environment/$server.yml
- cmdb/$environment/default.yml
- cmdb/$server.yml
- cmdb/default.yml
If it find the value for "vhosts" in one of these files, it will return that value and exit the search.
VirtualBox
It is now possible to use VirtualBox in headless mode on MacOSX and Linux.
set virtualization => {
type => "VBox",
headless => TRUE
};
task "foo", sub {
vm start => "myvm";
};
If you're using Rex/Boxes you can set this option in your YAML file.
type: VBox
vbox:
headless: true
vms:
www01:
url: http://box.rexify.org/box/ubuntu-server-12.10-amd64.ova
network:
1:
type: bridged
bridge: eth0
setup: setup_frontend
INI style group files
From Franky Van Liedekerke.
; my group file
[frontends]
fe01
fe02
fe03
fe04
fe05
# the backends
[backends]
be01
be02
;be03
be04
[db]
db[01..02]
use Rex::Group::Lookup::INI;
groups_file "file.ini";
Source global /etc/profile
There is a new setting called source_global_profile. This will source /etc/profile before every run() command.
On some systems this is needed because the user's profile (.bashrc, .bash_profile) doesn't source the global file. Before you use this function consider changing your .bashrc.
source_global_profile TRUE;
Bugs
- refactored sudo module for #98 - Dominik Schulz
- refactored path calculation for upload(), file() and template() functions (#103 and #101)
- export update_system sub - Ferenc Erki
- fixed regex which gets name of interfaces - Fran Rodriguez
- fixed dmidecode on OpenBSD