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Release notes for 0.54.3
These are the changes in 0.54 release.
We want to thank every contributor that makes this release possible.
Common
path_map - variable path mapping
path_map is a new feature developed by Erik Huelsmann to ease the management of files for different hosts. In the past, if you wanted to upload a file (for example /etc/security/access.conf) to your servers and wanted to have different access.conf files per environment, or for a special host, you had to build this logic by yourself. With the path_map feature you only have to define the lookup path and Rex is doing this for you.
use Rex -feature => ['0.54'];
set path_map => {
"files/" => [
"files/{environment}/{hostname}/", "files/{environment}/",
"files/{hostname}/",
],
"templates/" => [
"templates/{environment}/{hostname}/", "templates/{environment}/",
"templates/{hostname}/",
],
};
task "setup",
group => "frontends",
sub {
file "/etc/security/access.conf",
source => "files/etc/security/access.conf",
owner => "root",
group => "root",
mode => 644;
file "/etc/ntp.conf",
content => template("templates/etc/ntp.conf"),
owner => "root",
group => "root",
mode => 644;
};This example will search for the files it should upload or process as templates in the following direction:
Given:
- environment = production
- hostname = fe01
Lookup-Path:
- files/production/fe01/etc/security/access.conf
- files/production/etc/security/access.conf
- files/fe01/etc/security/access.conf
- files/etc/security/access.conf
And for the template it is just the same:
- templates/production/fe01/etc/ntp.conf
- templates/production/etc/ntp.conf
- templates/fe01/etc/ntp.conf
- templates/etc/ntp.conf
You can use any variable that the inventory can gather from the system.
Cloud
- Jiffybox - Added possibility to clone a jiffybox image. #439 - Peter Manthey
Bugfixes
Rex::Test
- Only execute testfiles which end on .t - #434 - Robert Abraham
- Close last used ssh connection after test - #433 - Robert Abraham
- Check if file exists before checking contents - fix #432 - FErki
Cloud
- OpenStack - Fixed return value for flavors function - #406 - exzz
Common
- Add error message when attempting to run a non-existing task - FErki
- Refactored the behaviour of set() function to do what it is saying. So with feature 0.54 enabled set is always overwriting the existing values. (#425)
- Add service_exists for Gentoo - FErki
- Fixing nested sudo operations. - #423
- Added check if service exists - #407
- Handle hostgroup members with leading numeric ranges - FErki
- Redirect nohup output to /dev/null
- Make apt-listchanges non-interactive - #417 - aowi
- Don't try to run dmidecode if it is not in PATH - Andrej Zverev
- Enhanced support for pkgng (FreeBSD) - Andrej Zverev
- Fixed Rex::Commands::MD5::md5() to obey path settings
- Add documentation for run() function. - #440 - Erik Huelsmann