Release notes for Uyuni Server
Version 2021.02
2021-03-01 11:47:13 +0100
Table of Contents
* Version Revision History
* Stay informed
* Support
* Release model
* Major changes since Uyuni Server 4.0.0
+ Features and changes
o Version 2021.02
# Recent Salt CVEs remediation
# Prometheus exporters' reverse proxy formula Ubuntu support
o Version 2021.01
# Vendor change for some Java dependencies
# Fix version comparison algorithm for deb packages (Ubuntu)
# New products enabled
# SAP content
# CPU mitigations formula
# Vendor change on SP migration
# Autoinstallation of older operating systems
# Oracle Linux ULN repositories
# CentOS 6 repositories
# New countries and timezones
# Cluster management: upgrade plan
# Yomi refresh
# Uyuni Server connections are always and only secure
# Monitoring updates
o Version 2020.11
# Recent Salt CVEs remediation
# CentOS 7/8 ppc64le support
# Prometheus Exporter Exporter for CentOS, Oracle and RHEL 7 and
8
# Node Exporter updated to version 1.0.1 for most operating
systems
# Web UI themes
# Prometheus Exporter Exporter
# XML-RPC power management API
# Third-party errata information on vendor channels
# Bootstrap repositories no longer flushed by default
# DNSSEC enabled by default by bind update
# Virtualization: Creation of virtual machines with Yomi,
KickStart or AutoYaST profiles
# Japanese translation
o Version 2020.09
# Uyuni Hub XML-RPC API is now supported
# Formula for peripheral server management (Technology Preview)
# Maintenance windows
# Monitoring reverse proxies
# Added new type of "Virtual Host Manager": Nutanix AHV
# Grafana 7.1.5
# New products enabled
o Version 2020.07
# Upgrade notes
# Salt 3000.0
# New "mgrcompat.module_run" custom compatibility state for Salt
is available for registered systems.
# PostgreSQL 12
# Base System Upgrade
# New products enabled
# Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
# hwdata vendor change for openSUSE Leap 15.1 clients
o Version 2020.06
# Oracle Linux
# Third-party GPG keys now included
# Cluster Management
# Dropped feature: Unpublished patches
o Version 2020.05
# Repository syncing performance improvements
# Image profiles key-value pairs supported as arguments for
Docker build
# Service pack migrations: run a real migration after a
successful dry-run
o Version 2020.04
# Recurring actions
# Bootstrapping Salt Clients with a Private SSH key (from API)
# CentOS8 Content Lifecycle Management: Better Feedback with
Appstreams
# Automated Schema Database Upgrades and Failure Security
Mechanism
# Large Deployments Guide (draft)
# Uyuni Hub documentation
# Public Cloud QuickStart Guide (draft)
# CaaSP Grafana Dashboads
# Prometheus Federation Support in Formulas with Forms
# Pre-configured default alerting rules
# Prometheus Exporters for CentOS8 x86_64
# Node Exporter Updated to 0.18.1
# Virtualization: Management of storage pools
o Version 2020.03
# Debian client tools
# SUSE Container as a Service Platform v4 nodes: action filtering
# Subscription matching in public cloud: BYOS vs PAYG
# Automatic generation of bootstrap repositories
# Salt clients: provisioning API
# Recurring highstate scheduling
# Content Lifecycle Filters for AppStreams
# New products enabled
# Ubuntu enhancements
# Yomi (Technology Preview)
# Uyuni Hub XML-RPC API (Technology Preview)
# spacewalk-utils
# EFI HTTP booting
# Subscription matching enhancements
# Single Sign-On (SSO) is now stable
# Single Page Application UI (SPA) is now stable
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 onboarding simplified
o Version 2020.01
# Version format change
# Adjust your repository at the Server system
# Remove current Uyuni Proxy 4.0 channel and repository from the
Server and add the new ones
# Remove current Uyuni Server 4.0 channel and repository from the
Server and add the new ones
# CentOS8, RHEL 8 and SLES ES 8 support
# Monitoring
# Package Hub
# Formulas
# New Content Lifecycle Management filters
# Enhanced support for Debian and Ubuntu
# New Prometheus exporters and formulas
# Subscription matching in Public Cloud
# Preventive shutdown of Server when running out of disk space
# Single Page Application UI
# Grafana
# Prometheus service autodiscovery
# CPU mitigation formula
# Updated documentation
# Enhanced support for Ubuntu and Debian clients
# New products enabled (from SCC)
# SUSE Container as a Service Platform v4 support
# Other changes
o Version 4.0.2
# Migrating the Server from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2
# Salt 2019.2.0
# Base system upgrade
# Prometheus Monitoring
# Content lifecycle management
# Virtualization management for Salt minions
# Updated Documentation Structure
# Improved logging for Salt Remote Command Page
# Support for more Distributions as Clients
# EoL for openSUSE Leap 42.3 clients
# Salt Rate Limiting (Batching)
# Product Information Loaded from SCC
# Image build host with SLES 12 SP4
# Updated backend for communicating with SCC
# XMLRPC API changes
# Support for Ubuntu Clients
# Change behavior on token refresh
# New option to force regeneration of channel metadata
# New products supported
# Package download endpoint override
# Technical preview: Single Sign-On (SSO)
o Version 4.0.1
# Support for PostgreSQL 10
# Migrating from PostgreSQL 9.6 to PostgreSQL 10
# spacecmd: Support state channels
# New API calls
# spacewalk-common-channels: Support for Uyuni, Fedora 29 and
cleanup
# Support for more Distributions as Clients
# New products added to SCC syncing
* Known issues
+ Single Sign On, API and CLI tools
+ EPEL and Salt packages
+ RHEL 6, CentOS 6 and Oracle Linux 6 minimal installations
+ RHEL native clients
+ Registering Spacewalk 2.x/Red Hat Satellite 5.x clients to Uyuni as
Salt minions
+ CentOS
* Client Tools Notes
+ Supported clients
+ Untested clients
+ Known limitations
* Documentation
* Installation
+ Requirements
+ Installing the Server
+ Update from previous versions of Uyuni Server
+ Update from previous versions of Uyuni Proxy
* Other information
+ Red Hat Channels
+ SUSE Channels
* Providing feedback
* Legal Notices
Version Revision History
* 2021/03/01: 2021.02 release
* 2021/02/05: 2021.01 release
* 2020/11/26: 2020.11 release
* 2020/09/22: 2020.09 release
* 2020/07/24: 2020.07 release
* 2020/06/15: 2020.06 release
* 2020/05/21: 2020.05 release
* 2020/04/16: 2020.04 release
* 2020/03/19: 2020.03 release
* 2020/01/31: 2020.01 release
* 2019/08/02: 4.0.2 release
* 2018/12/19: 4.0.1 release
* 2018/10/26: 4.0.0 release
Stay informed
You can stay up-to-date regarding information about Uyuni:
Check the home site https://www.uyuni-project.org
Support
Uyuni is a community-supported project. The ways or contacting the community
are available at the home site.
Release model
Uyuni uses a rolling release model (meaning there will be no bugfixing for
given Uyuni version, but new frequent versions that will include bugfixes and
features)
Check the home site get in contact with the community.
Major changes since Uyuni Server 4.0.0
Features and changes
Version 2021.02
Recent Salt CVEs remediation
This release includes the fixes for CVE-2020-28243, CVE-2020-28972,
CVE-2021-3148, CVE-2021-25281, CVE-2021-25282, CVE-2021-25283, CVE-2021-3144,
CVE-2021-25284, CVE-2021-3197 and CVE-2020-35662
The fixes affect your Uyuni Server, Proxy, Retail Branch Server and Salt
minions, so we recommend appling the fixes as soon as possible.
Prometheus exporters' reverse proxy formula Ubuntu support
The formula for Prometheus exporter?s formula can now be used with Ubuntu
clients.
Version 2021.01
Vendor change for some Java dependencies
Besides the regular update, you will need to execute the following command to
change the vendor for some Java dependencies:
zypper install --allow-downgrade --allow-vendor-change -f
apache-commons-cli-1.4-lp152.1.3.noarch
apache-commons-jexl-2.1.1-lp152.1.1.noarch
apache-commons-el-1.0-lp152.2.3.1.noarch
If you do not do this, the WebUI will not start and you will get a HTTP 404
erroor.
Fix version comparison algorithm for deb packages (Ubuntu)
In some rare cases, Uyuni suggested that users upgrade Ubuntu packages with an
older version than the one currently installed (for example, suggesting
installation of libtre5-0.8.0-3+deb7u1ubuntu1 instead of
libtre5-0.8.0-3ubuntu1).
Starting with Uyuni 2021.02, the algorithm used for comparing package versions
has been separated for RPM and deb packages. Having two algorithms for
comparing packages means that deb packages in Ubuntu are now correctly ordered,
and work as successfully as the RPM package algorithm. This means that the rare
case explained above no longer occurs, and any proposed update is correct and
should be performed.
This update also fixes problems syncing Ubuntu and Debian channels and
repositories.
IMPORTANT: You need to plan this update. The database changes require updating
the EVR information (epoch, version, release) for all packages. Depending on
the specifications of your Uyuni installation, the number of channels, and
onboarded instances, the services will take between 30 minutes and several
hours while the schema is migrated.
New products enabled
* SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 family (beta)
* SLE 15 SP1 LTSS
* SUSE Linux Enterprise HPC 15 SP2 LTSS
* SUSE Container as a Service Platform 4.5 (x86_64 and aarch64)
SAP content
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications is the best operating system
to run your SAP workloads.
Tthis release of Uyuni includes content which provides added value to SLES for
SAP users:
* Documentation: New Quick Start: SAP
* Formulas:
+ saphanabootstrap-formula: SAP HANA deployment Salt formula. This
formula can install SAP HANA nodes, enable system replication and
configure SLE-HA cluster with the SAPHanaSR resource agent, using
standalone Salt or via Uyuni formulas with forms.
+ sapnwbootstrap-formula: SAP Netweaver deployment Salt formula. This
formula can install SAP Netweaver instances (ASCS, ERS, PAS, AAS) and
perform some basic actions to optimize their usage.
+ drbd-formula: DRBD deployment Salt formula (requires drbd-utils)
+ habootstrap-formula: HA cluster salt deployment formula. This formula
can boostrap an HA cluster ((init, join, remove) using standalone Salt
or via Uyuni formulas with forms.
* Salt state modules:
+ salt-shaptools: Salt modules and states for SAP Applications and SLE-HA
components management
* Grafana dashboards:
+ grafana-sap-hana-dashboards: Grafana Dashboards displaying metrics
about SAP HANA databases.
+ grafana-sap-netweaver-dashboards: Grafana Dashboards displaying metrics
about a SAP NetWeaver landscape.
+ grafana-ha-cluster-dashboards: Grafana Dashboards displaying metrics
about a Pacemaker/Corosync High Availability Cluster.
+ grafana-sap-providers: Automated configuration provisioners used by
other packages to enable zero-config installation of Grafana
dashboards.
The formulas and Salt state modules are included in the Uyuni Server channel.
The Grafana dashboards are included in the Uyuni Client Tools for SLE 12 and
SLE 15 channels.
CPU mitigations formula
Unsupported clients are now handled gracefully and mitigations have been added
for the Xen hypervisor.
Vendor change on SP migration
Vendor change (changing the repository where a package comes from) can now
optionally be enabled during service pack migration.
This feature is useful where the client system is using unofficial packages and
you want to move back to official packages, or to switch from an official
package to a third-party version of a package. Instead of performing the SP
migration within the same vendor and then manually installing the package from
the new vendor, you can now do everything in a single action.
This feature is available for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 or newer, and can also
be used to migrate from openSUSE Leap 15 to SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.
Autoinstallation of older operating systems
Autoinstallation provisioning is now compatible with GRUB and ELILO in addition
to GRUB2 only, which is useful when provisioning SLES 11 SP4 and RHEL 6 (and
clones) systems.
Oracle Linux ULN repositories
Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network repositories are now supported in Software >
Manage > Repositories. Oracle Linux users with a subscription from Oracle can
use this to manually add the repositories for KSplice and others.
CentOS 6 repositories
CentOS 6 reached end-of-life on November 30th, 2020, and the CentOS Project
moved its repositories to the vault archive. URLs at spacewalk-common-channels
for new Uyuni Servers. For existing Uyuni servers the database migration will
take care of updating the URLs at the database.
Other operating systems in the same class also reached end-of-life but require
no change, since they will continue to work as-is: Oracle Linux 6 (URLs not
changed) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (URLs are provided by users).
New countries and timezones
The countries and timezones list have been refreshed, adapting to the latest
timezone and geopolitical changes.
Cluster management: upgrade plan
When upgrading a cluster, the upgrade plan is now shown in the WebUI. This
makes it easier to verify that an upgrade will be conducted as expected.
Yomi refresh
The formulas that make autoinstallation of SLES and openSUSE systems simpler
have been upgraded to the latest version provided by the Yomi project. The
updated formulas are more intuitive, harder to misuse, and allow you to specify
additional advanced options.
Uyuni Server connections are always and only secure
The WebUI and the CLI commands no longer provide an option to disable SSL. The
option was in fact already obsolete and not working.
Monitoring updates
Grafana 7.3.1
Grafana has been updated from version 7.1.5 to version 7.3.1 which brings a
number of bugfixes and improvements.
Notable improvements:
* Add monitoring mixing for Grafana.
* New Cloudwatch metrics
* Elasticsearch: Support multiple pipeline aggregations for a query.
* Support request cancellation properly for PostgreSQL, Loki and Prometheus
* Postgres: Support Unix socket for host
* Loki: Re-introduce running of instant queries
* Prometheus: Support request cancellation properly. Add $__rate_interval
variable
* API improvements
* Variables: enables cancel for slow query variables queries
* Table: Adds column filtering
Breaking changes:
* CloudWatch: The AWS CloudWatch data source?s authentication scheme has
changed. See the upgrade notes for details and how this may affect you.
* Units: The date time units YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss and MM/DD/YYYY h:mm:ss a
have been renamed to Datetime ISO and Datetime US respectively.
A detailed changelog is available at upstream.
Prometheus 2.22.1
The core of our monitoring solution, Prometheus, has been updated from version
2.18.0 to version 2.22.1, which brings a number of bugfixes and improvement.
Notable improvements:
* Web: Remove APIv2.
* React UI: Implement missing TSDB head stats section.
* UI: Add Collapse all button to targets page.
* UI: Clarify alert state toggle via checkbox icon.
* Gracefully handle unknown WAL record types.
* Issue a warning for 64-bit systems running 32-bit binaries.
* TSDB: Memory-map full chunks of Head (in-memory) block from disk. This
reduces memory footprint and makes restarts faster.
* TSDB: Reduced contention in isolation for high load.
* Discovery: Added discovery support for Triton global zones.
* Remote Read: Added prometheus_remote_storage_remote_read_queries_total
counter to count the total number of remote read queries.
* Added time range parameters for label names and label values API.
Detail changelogs for each version between 2.18.0 and 2.22.1 can be found at: *
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.22.1 * https://
github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.22.0 * https://github.com/
prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.19.3 * https://github.com/prometheus/
prometheus/releases/tag/v2.19.2 * https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/
releases/tag/v2.19.1 * https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/
v2.19.0 * https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.18.2 *
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.18.1
Prometheus Exporter Exporter for Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 and Debian 9/10
The Reverse-proxy Exporter Exporter, which allows you to expose a single port
no matter how many exporters are running on the client, is now available for
18.04/20.04 and Debian 9/10.
Version 2020.11
Recent Salt CVEs remediation
This release includes the fixes for CVE-2020-16846, CVE-2020-17490 and
CVE-2020-25592 that we already released on November 16th for Uyuni 2020.09.
If you did not apply the patch already, update your Uyuni Server, Proxy, Retail
Branch Server and Salt minions as soon as possible.
CentOS 7/8 ppc64le support
Uyuni can now manage CentOS7 and CentOS8 ppc64le clients. Supported features
are the same available for x86_64 clients.
Prometheus Exporter Exporter for CentOS, Oracle and RHEL 7 and 8
The reverse-proxy Exporter Exporter, which allows you to expose a single port
no matter how many exporters are running on the client, is now available for
CentOS, Oracle and RHEL 7 and 8 for both x86_64 and ppc64le.
Node Exporter updated to version 1.0.1 for most operating systems
The following operating systems will receive version 1.0.1:
* openSUSE Leap 15.1 and 15.2
* SLE12 (all service packs)
* SLE15 (all service packs)
* Ubuntu 20.04
* CentOS/Oracle/RHEL 8
* CentOS/Oracle/RHEL 7
All the changes can be found at the changelog for the package, or at https://
github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/tag/v1.0.0 and https://github.com/
prometheus/node_exporter/releases/tag/v1.0.1
Keep in mind this new version includes some breaking changes:
* The netdev collector CLI argument --collector.netdev.ignored-devices was
renamed to --collector.netdev.device-blacklist in order to conform with the
systemd collector.
* The label named state on node_systemd_service_restart_total metrics was
changed to name to better describe the metric.
* Refactoring of the mdadm collector changes several metrics:
* node_md_disks_active is removed
* node_md_disks now has a state label for "fail", "spare", "active" disks.
* node_md_is_active is replaced by node_md_state with a state set of
"active", "inactive", "recovering", "resync".
* Additional label mountaddr added to NFS device metrics to distinguish
mounts from the same URL, but different IP addresses.
* Metrics node_cpu_scaling_frequency_min_hrts and
node_cpu_scaling_frequency_max_hrts of the cpufreq collector were renamed
to node_cpu_scaling_frequency_min_hertz and
node_cpu_scaling_frequency_max_hertz.
* Collectors that are enabled, but are unable to find data to collect, now
return 0 for node_scrape_collector_success.
Web UI themes
Uyuni now supports themes. Users can select what theme they want to use in the
User Preferences page in the Web UI. Initially, we are providing three themes:
* SUSE Manager light: default light, low-contrast theme
* SUSE Manager dark: high-contrast theme based on the light theme
* Uyuni: SUSE Manager 4.0 and Uyuni theme. Also high-contrast.
Administrators can globally disable themes in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf by listing
which themes they want to allow:
# susemanager-light,susemanager-dark,uyuni
web.themes = susemanager-light,susemanager-dark,uyuni
web.theme_default = susemanager-light
Prometheus Exporter Exporter
The reverse-proxy Exporter Exporter, which allows you to expose a single port
no matter how many exporters are running on the client, is now available for
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
XML-RPC power management API
New APIs have been added to do IPMI power management. Redfish power management
will be included in a future maintenance update.
Third-party errata information on vendor channels
It is now possible to add third-party errata information to CentOS and Ubuntu
20.04 LTS channels without cloning them, as described at the CentOS Clients
section of the Client Configuration Guide.
The known issue present in previous releases of Uyuni has been fixed.
Bootstrap repositories no longer flushed by default
In Uyuni 2020.03, we automated the generation of bootstrap repositories on
channel sync. Bootstrap repositories were not only autogenerated but also
autoflushed, which caused disappearing packages problems to some users (e. g.,
in the case of multi-architecture bootstrap repositories).
Starting with Uyuni 2020.11, bootstrap repositories are not flushed by default.
If you want to save some disk space, you can manually flush them using
mgr-create-bootstrap-repo --flush.
DNSSEC enabled by default by bind update
With the update of ISC bind to version 9.16.6 on openSUSE Leap 15.1 and
openSUSE Leap 15.2, DNSSEC is now enabled by default, which may cause DNS
resolution to fail unless there are fallback DNS servers.
The Retail Branch Server formula has been modified to disable DNSSEC, and will
be updated to support DNSSEC in a future release of Uyuni. For existing Retail
Branch Servers, you can disable DNSSEC to retain the same behaviour ISC bind
showed until version 9.11.2. To do that, edit /etc/bind and set:
dnssec-enable no; dnssec-validation no;
Virtualization: Creation of virtual machines with Yomi, KickStart or AutoYaST
profiles
Creating a virtual machine using the Web UI and the Salt virt states can now
use a defined Autoinstallation profile, any defined cobbler profile like the
Yomi one. The virtual machine can also be created using PXE or by adding a
CDROM device with an attached ISO image.
Japanese translation
The Uyuni Web UI and command-line tools are now available in Japanese thanks to
the upstream Uyuni Community.
Since this is a community translation, it is not enabled by default. In order
to allow users to select Japanese in their User Preferences in the Web UI, add
the following line to /etc/rhn/rhn.conf:
java.supported_locales=en_US,ja
A restart of Tomcat is required.
Version 2020.09
Uyuni Hub XML-RPC API is now supported
Starting with Uyuni 2020.09, the Uyuni Hub XML-RPC API is no longer considered
a tech preview, but a fully supported feature.
This means that multiple peripheral servers (other Uyuni Servers) can be
managed from a single Hub node, as a supported feature.
Formula for peripheral server management (Technology Preview)
This version of Uyuni includes formulas that can be installed on a Hub node to
manage the following on peripheral servers:
* Organizations
* System groups in organizations
* Users in organizations
* Access to system groups
* Access to software channels
To use the formula, run zypper in uyuni-config-formula on the Hub node, and
then enable the formula for the peripheral servers, and use it to manage them.
This feature will be documented at the Large Deployments Guide in a future
Uyuni release.
Maintenance windows
The new maintenance windows feature allows you to schedule sensitive actions
(like package installation or upgrade) to occur during a scheduled one-time or
recurrent maintenance window period on selected systems. These actions are
forbidden to be executed outside of the specified period.
Maintenance windows are defined using iCalendar data, which can be exported
from your favorite calendaring tool (Microsoft Outlook, KDE Organizer, Google
Calendar??).
For more information about Maintenance windows check the Administration Guide
Monitoring reverse proxies
Prometheus fetches metrics using a pull mechanism, so the server must be able
to establish TCP connections to each exporter on the monitored clients.
The new monitoring reverse proxies feature allows you to simplify your firewall
configuration. By installing the reverse proxy on the clients you can get all
the metrics for all the exporters on a single TCP port.
Check the Monitoring section of the Administration Guide for information about
how to set up.
Monitoring reverse proxies are only available for SLE12, SLE15, and openSUSE
Leap 15 families of products, and not yet available for other operating system
platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. Support for other
operating system platforms will come in future releases of Uyuni
Added new type of "Virtual Host Manager": Nutanix AHV
In Uyuni 2020.09, we have added a new type of Virtual Host Manager in order to
gather virtual machines from Nutanix AHV infrastructure.
Creating a VHM to gather virtual instances from the Nutanix AHV enables the
subscription matcher to match 1-2 virtual machines subscriptions for those
instances that are running on the same virtualization host.
For more information about how to setup this new type, see the Client
Configuration Guide
Note that this feature requires the virtual-host-gatherer-Nutanix package.
Grafana 7.1.5
Grafana has been updated from version 7.0.3 to 7.1.5 which brings a number of
bugfixes and improvements.
Notable improvements:
* Stats: Stop counting the same user multiple times.
* Field overrides: Filter by field name using regex.
* AzureMonitor: map more units.
* Explore: Don?t run queries on datasource change.
* Graph: Support setting field unit & override data source (automatic) unit.
* Explore: Unification of logs/metrics/traces user interface
* Table: JSON Cell should try to convert strings to JSON
* Variables: enables cancel for slow query variables queries.
* TimeZone: unify the time zone pickers to one that can rule them all.
* Search: support URL query params.
* Grafana-UI: Add FileUpload.
* TablePanel: Sort numbers correctly.
A detailed changelog is available upstream.
New products enabled
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
Version 2020.07
Upgrade notes
WARNING: Check "Update from previous versions of Uyuni Server" section below
for details, as this release updates the base OS from openSUSE Leap 15.1 to
openSUSE Leap 15.2, and there are special steps required.
The migration will be performed allowing vendor changes, so this upgrade will
fix the issues with python3-psycopg2 mentioned at Uyuni Server 2020.05 release
notes. Therefore you will not need to perform the manual steps mentioned there.
Salt 3000.0
Salt has been upgraded to upstream version 3000, plus a number of patches,
backports and enhancements by SUSE, for the Uyuni Server, Proxy and Client
Tools. In particular, CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652 fixes are included in
our release.
As part of this upgrade, cryptography is now managed by the Python-M2Crypto
library (which is itself based on the well-known OpenSSL library).
We intend to regularly upgrade Salt to more recent versions.
For more details about changes in your manually-created Salt states, see the
Salt 3000 upstream release notes.
Please note Salt 3000 is the last version of Salt which will support the old
syntax of the module.run module.
New "mgrcompat.module_run" custom compatibility state for Salt is available for
registered systems.
WARNING - POSSIBLE ACTION REQUIRED: The syntax for Salt module.run state has
changed starting in next Salt 3001 (Sodium) release. This means, any custom SLS
file or "Configuration State Channel" that is using module.run state needs to
be adapted to fit into the new syntax. This turns even more problematic when
you have minions with different Salt versions, because some minions would
accept the new syntax but others would fail with it, so the SLS files would
require extra logic to handle the different Salt versions & configurations.
To make this process much easier, we have introduced this new
mgrcompat.module_run compatibility state, which is essentially a wrapper of
module.run which accept the deprecated syntax and takes care of tailoring the
parameters for the actual module.run if necesasary according to the particular
minion version and configuration. The only thing to do would be to change
module.run to `mgrcompat.module_run in your SLS files and "Configuration State
Channels".
As an example of this, a non-migrated state like this:
my_module_run_state:
module.run:
- name: mymodule.func
- m_name: foobar
- other: 1234
would be adapted to:
my_module_run_state:
mgrcompat.module_run:
- name: mymodule.func
- m_name: foobar
- other: 1234
We really encourage users and customer to start migrating their Salt States to
use mgrcompat.module_run now before Salt 3001 (Sodium) release. Once Salt 3001
comes, those states will simply fail.
PostgreSQL 12
The database engine has been updated from PostgreSQL 10 to PostgreSQL 12, which
brings a number of performance and reliability improvements. A detailed
changelog is available upstream.
To prevent inconsistent configurations and data on upgrade or update, Uyuni
2020.06 will refuse to start until the database migration from PostgreSQL 10 to
PostgreSQL 12 has completed successfully.
Base System Upgrade
The base system was upgraded to openSUSE Leap 15.2.
New products enabled
* Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Starting with Uyuni 2020.07, Ubuntu 2020.04 LTS is supported as a client.
hwdata vendor change for openSUSE Leap 15.1 clients
package hwdata now comes from from openSUSE Leap 15.1 and not from the client
tools.
In oder to get updated versions, the following command must be executed on the
clients:
zypper in --allow-vendor-change hwdata
It is recommended to execute this as a remote command.
This change is mandatory if you intend to use the openSUSE Leap 15.1 as a KVM
virtualization host.
This does not affect openSUSE Leap 15.2 as it will always have hwdata from the
distribution.
Version 2020.06
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux 6, 7 and 8 can now be managed with salt and it will support the
same features CentOS 6, 7 and 8 support.
The channels can be managed using spacewalk-common-channels.
Third-party GPG keys now included
Enabling verification of non-SUSE product metadata used to require manual
acceptance, and sometimes even manual installation, of the third-party keys for
products available from the product tree. Alternatively, an option to not
verify the GPG key signature was there.
Uyuni 2020.06 now includes the GPG keys used to sign packages and/or metadata
by other the following vendors:
* CentOS
* Oracle Linux
* Ubuntu
* MicroFocus Open Enterprise Server
Manual acceptance of those keys is no longer required for GPG signature
verification for those products to work.
Manual acceptance of GPG keys for any other product or repository is still
required for security reasons.
Cluster Management
As you modernize your IT landscape and make use of Software Defined
Infrastructure stacks based on technologies like Kubernetes and Ceph, your
focus of managing the IT infrastructure has to move from managing individual
Linux servers and VMs to managing infrastructure clusters. Multiple cluster
types will be supported in coming releases, with Uyuni 2020.06 initially
providing support for SUSE CaaSP.
Computing is increasingly being a more complex architecure: redundant servers,
scale out, high-availability, etc where you deploy different kinds of clusters,
such as SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE Enterprise Storage or SAP. Managing those as a
whole piece of infrastructure instead of as discrete nodes puts you in charge.
Uyuni 2020.06 implements cluster management of SUSE CaaS Platform clusters.
Uyuni works hand-in-hand with CaaS Platform to make sure that all cluster
operations are issued properly.
The following actions are currently supported:
* Register an existing cluster to Uyuni
* Add or remove nodes to the cluster
* Promote SLES system to managing node
* Upgrade the cluster
Deployment of CaaS Platform clusters from scratch will be supported in an
upcoming version of Uyuni.
Dropped feature: Unpublished patches
The Unpublished Patches feature has been dropped in Uyuni 2020.05.
This was a very old feature which originated more than 15 years ago when
Spacewalk was used internally by vendors to manage patches before making them
available to their customers. This functionality has been superseded a long
(more than 10 years) time ago by other features in Uyuni for sysadmins, and by
tools such as the Open Build Service for operating system vendors.
After a consultation period with users both in the upstream Uyuni community and
the SUSE Manager community, we received no feedback against the removal and
executed on it.
This will help us realize even further performance improvements in several
areas, including the commonly-used Content Lifecycle Management build and
promotion operations.
If you still have any unpublished patches, make sure you publish them with
Uyuni 2020.05 before migrating to Uyuni 2020.06.
API breakage
With the removal of the unpublished patches feature, the API specification
changed as follows:
* Method errata.listUnpublishedErrata was removed
* Method errata.create has one less parameter (the publish boolean, now
always true) and it is now mandatory to specify at least one channel label
in the last parameter (channelLabels). Previously specifying at least one
channel label was mandatory only if publish was set to true.
Therefore some API calls that worked in Uyuni 2020.05 and earlier may need
changes for Uyuni 2020.06 and later.
Version 2020.05
Repository syncing performance improvements
Repository synchronization has been optimized to perform faster than in
previous versions. This applies to if the synchronization is triggered in the
WebUI, or from the command prompt using the spacewalk-repo-sync command. It
also applies whether the synchronization is invoked manually, or automatically
as part of product or custom channel synchronizations. The performance
improvement is up six times faster than previous versions, but the improvement
depends mostly on your hardware setup, especially the number of CPUs, and how
many packages are being synchronized.
IMPORTANT: This requires a vendor change for the package
python3-psycopg2-2.8.4-2.1.uyuni.x86_64.
After running zypper update you will need force the vendor change with
zypper in python3-psycopg2-2.8.4-2.1.uyuni.x86_64
Then update again again, so the spacewalk-backend subpackages are updated:
zypper update
As soon as python3-psycopg2-2.8.4 is part of openSUSE Leap 15.1 we will provide
instructions use the openSUSE version again.
Image profiles key-value pairs supported as arguments for Docker build
Custom info key-value pairs defined in image profiles are now passed to the
Docker build command as build arguments. They can be accessed in Dockerfiles
using the ARG command.
Service pack migrations: run a real migration after a successful dry-run
After a Service Pack migration dry-run, if the result is a success you will get
a "Run migration" button in the event history to retrieve the "dry-run"
settings and confirm the migration with these settings.
Version 2020.04
Recurring actions
Scheduling recurring actions allows you to manage schedules for automated
recurring highstate execution on client, group, and organization level
depending on the frequency you choose.
This is useful, for example, to apply highstates on a regular schedule and
ensure configurations are enforced.
For more information, see the Administration Guide.
Bootstrapping Salt Clients with a Private SSH key (from API)
Before this release, only password authentication was available for
bootstrapping Salt clients from the Server.
Now SSH private key authentication is available, including use of a passphrase
on the private key. For Uyuni 2020.04 this is only available from the API. It
will be made available from the WebUI in a future release.
For security reasons, the private key is stored at the Uyuni Server only for
the bootstrap procedure, and removed after bootstrapping is complete. The
private key must be provided for each bootstrap.
The new method bootstrapWithPrivateSshKey in the namespace system is documented
in the API Documentation.
You can use this example by adjusting the client, keyfile, passphrase,
MANAGER_URL, MANAGER_LOGIN and MANAGER_PASSWORD according to your environment:
#!/usr/bin/python
import xmlrpclib
client = '192.168.1.2'
keyfile = '/path/to/priv/key'
passphrase = '' # empty string = no passphrase
conn = xmlrpclib.Server(MANAGER_URL, verbose=0)
key = conn.auth.login(MANAGER_LOGIN, MANAGER_PASSWORD)
with open(keyfile, 'r') as file:
data = file.read()
conn.system.bootstrapWithPrivateSshKey(key, server, 22, 'root', data, passphrase, '', False);
conn.auth.logout(key)
CentOS8 Content Lifecycle Management: Better Feedback with Appstreams
The content lifecycle project page in the WebUI now has improved feedback
messages about module filters, including missing or conflicting modules, and
dependency resolution problems. The messages are in the form of errors that
require the user to fix configurations, or warnings about potential problems.
Automated Schema Database Upgrades and Failure Security Mechanism
Database schema upgrades are now applied automatically during services startup,
so there is no need to call spacewalk-schema-upgrade manually. A security
mechanism has been implemented that prevents Uyuni Services from starting if
the schema upgrade has failed.
When this occurs:
1. When you run spacewalk-service start, it will fail and show an output with
information about the error.
2. All services, including the Apache service, will not start. This will also
cause the WebUI to be unavailable.
Large Deployments Guide (draft)
Uyuni is designed by default to work on small and medium scale installations.
For installations with more than 1000 clients per Uyuni Server, adequate
hardware sizing and parameter tuning must be performed, and the new guide
provides information about how to do it.
Keep in mind there is no hard maximum number of supported systems. Many factors
can affect how many clients can reliably be used in a particular installation.
Factors can include which features are used, and how the hardware and systems
are configured.
Uyuni Hub documentation
The Uyuni Hub announced for 2020.03 has now documentation available as part of
the Large Deployments Guide (section Multiple Servers with Hub).
This is a draft release, so please provide feedback using the Resources menu in
the online documentation
Public Cloud QuickStart Guide (draft)
This new draft guide shows you the fastest way to get Uyuni up and running in a
public cloud. It includes instructions for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft
Azure, and Google Cloud Engine.
This is a draft release, so please provide feedback using the Resources menu in
the online documentation
CaaSP Grafana Dashboads
CaaSP specific Grafana dashboards have been integrated and can be deployed via
the UI.
Prometheus Federation Support in Formulas with Forms
The new version of the Prometheus formula allows configuring federation and
pulling relevant metrics from Prometheus instances to provide a global
monitoring view.
Note that suitable recording rules have to be configured on the Prometheus
instances (for example at CaaSP Prometheus instances).
For more information about Prometheus federation, check the official
documentation.
Pre-configured default alerting rules
A default set of alerting rules have been added to monitor the Prometheus
instances themselves (meta-monitoring) and the availability of configured
targets. The rules can be disabled in the WebUI.
Prometheus Exporters for CentOS8 x86_64
We now provide these Prometheus exporters as packages for CentOS8 x86_64
(compatible also with similar systems such as RHEL8):
* Node exporter - Hardware and operating system metrics
* PostgreSQL exporter - PostgreSQL database metrics
* Apache exporter - Apache HTTP server metrics
Node Exporter Updated to 0.18.1
All the changes can be found at the changelog for the package, or at https://
github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/tag/v0.18.0 and https://github.com
/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/tag/v0.18.1
Keep in mind this new version includes some breaking changes:
* Renamed interface label to device in netclass collector for consistency
with other network metrics
* The cpufreq metrics now separate the cpufreq and scaling data based on what
the driver provides
* The labels for the network_up metric have changed
* Bonding collector now uses mii_status instead of operstatus
* Several systemd metrics have been turned off by default to improve
performance. These include unit_tasks_current, unit_tasks_max,
service_restart_total, and unit_start_time_seconds
* The systemd collector blacklist now includes automount, device, mount, and
slice units by default
Virtualization: Management of storage pools
Until now users could list the storage pools, which is where the virtual
machines disks are stored. Storage pools are where virtual machine disks are
stored. In previous versions, you could only list the pools. With this update,
you can create, edit, start, stop, refresh, and delete storage pools. This is
available from the WebUI, or through Salt states.
Version 2020.03
Debian client tools
We now offer Debian client tools that allow for easy onboarding of Debian as
salt minions, as well as running spacecmd from them.
Check the Client Configuration Guide for information about how to configure
Uyuni Server to work with Debian clients.
For now the following architectures are supported: x86_64, aarch64, armv7l,
i586
We plan to continue improving Debian support in the future, including support
for ppc64le and s390x Debian 10 clients.
SUSE Container as a Service Platform v4 nodes: action filtering
Nodes in a SUSE Container as a Service Platforms should be patched, rebooted,
etc following CaaSP recommendations to avoid breaking cluster availability and
software compability.
In Uyuni 2020.03, we have introduced node locking and action filtering to
prevent uninteded operations.
* When CaaSP nodes are added to Uyuni, the registered systems will be locked
automatically:
* When a system is locked, the web UI shows a warning and you can schedule
actions using the web UI or the API, but the action will fail.
You can enable or disable the system lock using the System Lock formula. When
the system lock is disabled, all operations are permitted.
Subscription matching in public cloud: BYOS vs PAYG
In Uyuni 4.0.1, we introduced virtual host gatherers for Amazon Web Services,
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Engine. With these gatherers, our subscription
matcher gained the ability to also include virtual machines running on the
cloud in its calculations.
We have now enhanced the subscription matcher to exclude pay-as-you-go (PAYG)
instances. Those do not require a subscription, as the agreement between the
Cloud Service Provider and the Customer covers them.
Automatic generation of bootstrap repositories
A bootstrap repository contains packages for installing Salt on clients, as
well as the required packages for registering Salt or traditional clients
during bootstrapping.
In Uyuni 2020.01 and earlier, bootstrap repository creation was a manual step,
by using the mgr-create-bootstrap-repo tool.
In Uyuni 2020.03, bootstrap repositories are automatically created and
regenerated on the Uyuni Server after a product is synchronized (i. e. all
mandatory channels are fully mirrored).
More details, including how to revert to manual invokation, are available from
the Client Configuration Guide.
Salt clients: provisioning API
Enable provisioning API with Salt and bootstrap entitled systems. Previously,
this only worked for traditional clients.
Recurring highstate scheduling
You can schedule automated recurring highstate actions for Salt clients.
Recurring highstate actions apply the highstate to clients on a specified
schedule. You can apply recurring action to individual clients, to all clients
in a system group, or to an entire organization. The Recurring Actions section
in the Administration Guide contains all the details for this feature.
More improvements in regards to automation will be coming in subsequent
releases of Uyuni: maintenance windows and patch automation.
Content Lifecycle Filters for AppStreams
RHEL, SLES ES, CentOS and Oracle Linux 8 appstreams can now be mixed and
converted to flat repositories using a new type of CLM filter.
New products enabled
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5
* SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 family
* MicroFocus Open Enterprise Server 2018 SP2 (product GA in Q2 2020)
* Oracle Linux 8 (using spacewalk-common-channels)
Ubuntu enhancements
Each Uyuni release and maintenance update brings better Ubuntu support. In
Uyuni 2020.03, we have include two small but valuable improvements:
* Support package pre-downloading, to ensure all content (.deb packages) is
downloaded before patching. This should be very useful for large Ubuntu
deployments managed by Uyuni.
* Display additional information in the UI for .deb packages (dependencies
and more headers)
Yomi (Technology Preview)
Yomi (yet one more installer) is a Salt-based installer for SUSE and openSUSE
operating systems.
In Uyuni, Yomi can be used as part of provisioning new clients, as an
alternative to AutoYaST. Yomi consists of two components:
* The Yomi formula, which contains the Salt states and modules required to
perform the installation.
* The operating system image, which includes the pre-configured salt-minion
service.
Detailed information on how to use Yomi is available from the Salt Guide.
Yomi is work in progress and more operating systems and features will be added
in coming releases.
Uyuni Hub XML-RPC API (Technology Preview)
The Uyuni Hub is a new multi-server architecture we are introducing as a
technology preview in Uyuni 2020.03.
Multiple Uyuni Servers can be managed from a single Hub node. The Hub is a Salt
master itself and the managed Uyuni Server servers are both a minion (to the
hub) and a master (to their own minions).
Uyuni Hub Architecture
The Hub covers a number of use cases, such as:
* Scalability: when a single Uyuni Server will no longer be enough
* Intermittently connected and bandwidth-limited sites, which can now be
managed with their own schedule thanks to the Hub
* Multi-tenancy with individual Uyuni Servers. While Uyuni is
multi-organization itself, in some scenarios, an even stronger separation
is required. The Hub provides a way to manage and aggregate back
information for all those Uyuni Server servers.
The Hub comprises a number of components that we will be releasing and
enhancing in the future. The first component of the Hub we are now introducing
as a Technology Preview is the Hub XML-RPC API, which provides an extended
version of the Uyuni Server XML-RPC API, targeted for the multi-server case.
Installation and usage
Install Uyuni Server and then install the hub-xmlrpc-api package. That Uyuni
Server is now the Hub Server.
Configuration of hub-xmlrpc-api is specified in a JSON file like the following:
{
"type": "json",
"hub": {
"manager_api_url": "http://localhost/rpc/api"
},
"connect_timeout": 10,
"read_write_timeout": 10,
}
Set the HUB_CONFIG_FILE environment variable to point to the configuration
file. hub-xmlrpc-api is a daemon, currently to be launched from the command
line.
Once running, you can connect to the hub-xmlrpc-api at port 8888 via any XMLRPC
compliant client libraries (see examples below).
API endpoints, namespaces and examples
Details about usage with Python script examples are available at the Uyuni
project site: https://github.com/uyuni-project/hub-xmlrpc-api
spacewalk-utils
In Uyuni 2020.01 and earlier, the spacewalk-utils package contained a mix
tested and untested tools.
In Uyuni 2020.03, we have split spacewalk-utils in two packages:
* spacewalk-utils contains only fully-tested tools:
+ spacewalk-common-channels
+ spacewalk-hostname-rename
+ spacewalk-clone-by-date
+ spacewalk-sync-setup
+ spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle
* spacewalk-utils-extras contains the tools that untested or not completely
tested:
+ apply_errata
+ delete-old-systems-interactive
+ migrate-system-profile
+ spacewalk-api
+ spacewalk-export
+ spacewalk-export-channels
+ spacewalk-final-archive
+ spacewalk-manage-snapshots
+ sw-ldap-user-sync
+ sw-system-snapshot
+ taskotop
+ spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle
Tools in spacewalk-utils-extras are valuable but they are so specific, or
require additional customization for each user, that it is not possible for us
to test for every use case. If you were using these scripts in spacewalk-utils
in Uyuni 2020.01 or earlier, you will need to install spacewalk-utils-extras in
Uyuni 2020.03.
EFI HTTP booting
The dhcp formula, branch network formula and pxe formula have been updated to
support booting EFI terminals (systems) via HTTP in addition to TFTP.
Subscription matching enhancements
On public cloud providers, the subscription matcher will identify pay-as-you-go
instances, whose subscription is provided by the Cloud Service Provider, and
will not ask for additional subscriptions.
Also, stackable subscriptions with the same parameters will be aggregated.
Single Sign-On (SSO) is now stable
Uyuni supports Single Sign-On authentication by implementing the Security
Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2 protocol. This feature, introduced in 4.0.2
as a Technology Preview, is now declared stable
Uyuni must be reconfigured to use the IdP as the source of authentication and
post-login mapped users must be already created before enabling SSO.
For more on configuring SSO, see the Authentication Methods chapter in the
Administration guide.
Single Page Application UI (SPA) is now stable
In an effort to provide our web UI users with a smoother navigation, we have
implemented large parts of the user interface as a single page application.
This enhancement was started in Uyuni 2020.01 as an opt-in feature and now
becomes the default in Uyuni 2020.03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 onboarding simplified
It is no longer necessary to have Python 3 on RHEL8 systems for the onboarding
to work. With this enhancement, even plain-text RHEL machines can be onboarded
directly.
Version 2020.01
Version format change
Uyuni is now changing from X.Y version format to YYYY.MM format, and the URLs
for the repositories remove the X.Y part.
This will allow easier releases, no need to change URLs at all in the future,
and less confussion regarding the relationship between Uyuni and SUSE Manager
(Uyuni is always ahead).
Adjust your repository at the Server system
Because of the version format change, you need to adapt your zypper repository
at the server before updating.
If you followed the instructions for installation, this command will do it for
you:
sed -i -e 's/Uyuni-Server-4.0-POOL-x86_64-Media1/
Uyuni-Server-POOL-x86_64-Media1/' /etc/zypp/repos.d/uyuni-server-stable.repo
Otherwise, find the Uyuni Server Stable repository and replace:
baseurl=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/
Stable/images/repo/Uyuni-Server-4.0-POOL-x86_64-Media1/
with:
baseurl=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/
Stable/images/repo/Uyuni-Server-POOL-x86_64-Media1/
Remove current Uyuni Proxy 4.0 channel and repository from the Server and add
the new ones
If you are currently syncing Uyuni Proxy 4.0 (usually because you have
proxies), you need to:
1. Add the new channel with spacewalk-common-channel
uyuni-proxy-stable-leap-151
2. Sync the new channel (and configure autosync if required)
3. See what instances are using the channel Uyuni Proxy 4.0 for openSUSE Leap
15.1
4. Adjust the channels assigned instances from previous step (tip: You can use
"System Set Manager") to remove the old one and add the new one.
5. See what activations key are using the channel Uyuni Proxy 4.0 for openSUSE
Leap 15.1
6. Adjust the activation keys from previous set to remove the old channel and
add the new one.
7. Remove the channel Uyuni Proxy 4.0 for openSUSE Leap 15.1
8. Remove the repository External - Uyuni Proxy 4.0 for openSUSE Leap 15.1
(x86_64)
Remove current Uyuni Server 4.0 channel and repository from the Server and add
the new ones
Most users will not require this unless, but if you have the Uyuni Server 4.0
channel at your server:
1. Add the new channel with spacewalk-common-channel
uyuni-server-stable-leap-151
2. Sync the new channel (and configure autosync if required)
3. See what instances are using the channel Uyuni Server 4.0 for openSUSE Leap
15.1
4. Adjust the channels assigned instances from previous step (tip: You can use
"System Set Manager" at the WebUI) to remove the old one and add the new
one.
5. See what activations key are using the channel Uyuni Server 4.0 for
openSUSE Leap 15.1
6. Adjust the activation keys from previous set to remove the old channel and
add the new one.
7. Remove the channel Uyuni Server 4.0 for openSUSE Leap 15.1
8. Remove the repository External - Uyuni Server 4.0 for openSUSE Leap 15.1
(x86_64)
CentOS8, RHEL 8 and SLES ES 8 support
CentOS 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Expanded
Support 8 are now supported clients as Salt minions. The traditional stack will
not be supported on these operating systems.
With the new application streams concept introduced in these operating systems,
you will need to import both the BaseOS and the AppStream directories from the
ISO image for the bootstrap repository to be created correctly. If the
AppStream directory is not imported, you will receive an error about missing
Python 3 packages.
AppStream awareness in the UI and Content Lifecycle Management will be
available in an upcoming version of Uyuni.
Monitoring
This version of Uyuni includes formulas to install Prometheus and Grafana, and
makes the Apache exporter available for Ubuntu 18.04, CentOS6, CentOS7 and
Proxy.
Additionally, self-monitoring capabilities have been implemented in the Admin
Monitoring UI.
Package Hub
SUSE Package Hub is now supported on the Server, since the problems with the
search that were caused by PackageHub-provided packages have been solved.
If you were using Package Hub as a source of packages for you clients, it is
recommended that you re-generate all package metadata. The reason for this is
in the Package Hub repositories there may exist multiple packages with the same
NEVRA but different checksums. This might result in checksum errors when
repositories are used on the clients as Uyuni randomly selected any of those
packages. After this update, Uyuni will generate the checksum into the package
path to ensure the right package is used. If you use also Uyuni Proxy please
update all of them before you re-generate the metadata.
Formulas
The Formulas with Forms screen has an enhanced layout that folds vertically
instead of nesting deep inside, making if cleaner. Besides this, validators are
now possible in formulas using the JEXL expression language.
The cpu-mitigations-formula is now installed by default.
The Retail branch network formula now works all SUSE and openSUSE based
distros, using SuSEfirewall or firewalld as appropriate.
New Content Lifecycle Management filters
In Uyuni 4.0.2 we introduced Content Lifecycle Management with a filter to
exclude packages and patches based on their name. Feedback for this feature was
very positive and many proposals for enhancement were received.
In this release, we are introducing a lot of new possibilities for Content
Lifecycle Management:
* New filters: by date, by keyword (e. g. "reboot needed" or "package manager
restart required"), by type (security, recommended or optional), by
synopsis and "patch contains package".
* New ALLOW mode, which in addition to the existing DENY mode, makes possible
to filter out packages, and then include them again into the resulting set.
* New matchers: in addition to the existing greater than, lesser than,
equals, etc, we have now added a regular expression matcher for package
names, patch names, patch synopsis and package names in patches.
* Better visualization of the filters attached to a CLM project, with ALLOW
and DENY now shown on each side of the screen.
We have documented two typical use cases: a monthly patch cycle and live
patching.
More enhancements to Content Lifecycle Management will come in future releases
of Uyuni.
Enhanced support for Debian and Ubuntu
With each release of Uyuni, we continue to enhance our Debian and Ubuntu
support.
Uyuni 2020.01 greatly improves our compatibility thanks to:
* Support for all of the headers in .deb packages, including custom ones,
when syncing Debian/Ubuntu repositories. You can use the new script
mgr-update-pkg-extra-tags to update extra fields in DB without recreating
all Debian/Ubuntu channels.
* Support for .deb packages with hyphens in the package name or version.
There remain a very small percentage (<0.1%) of packages for which our
version comparison algorithm fails; we will fix this known issue in a
coming release.
New Prometheus exporters and formulas
A new set of client tool packages now includes Prometheus exporters for more
clients: CentOS 6, CentOS 7, RHEL 6, RHEL 7, SLES ES 6, SLES ES 7 and Ubuntu
18.04. Both the Prometheus node exporter and the PostgreSQL exporter are
provided for those operating systems. The prometheus-exporters-formula formula
makes easy to deploy them.
Subscription matching in Public Cloud
We?ve added new types of Virtual Host Managers in order to gather virtual
instances from Public Cloud providers. Azure, AWS and Google Cloud are now
supported, in addition to the existing VMware and generic (file-based,
manually-maintained, useful for any cloud provider) gatherer modules.
Creating VHM to gather virtual instances from the Public Cloud will enable the
subscription matcher to match "1-2 virtual machines" subscriptions for those
instances that are running on the same Public Cloud zone.
Please take into account the following considerations in this version. They
will be addressed in upcoming versions of Uyuni:
* This functionality will only work with Salt clients.
* Manual installation of the virtual-host-gatherer-libcloud package is
required.
* The public cloud gatherers will report and try to match all instances, no
matter if they are BYOS or PAYG, leading to an incorrect calculation of the
required subscriptions if you combine BYOS and PAYG.
Preventive shutdown of Server when running out of disk space
Some users have hit in the past a database corruption problem when PostgreSQL
ran out of space.
In order to prevent that from happening in the future, we have added a
diskchecker to Uyuni Server. This feature will send a warning mail when the
most common and important Uyuni directories are below 10% of free disk space,
and will shut down the Uyuni Server when those directories are below 5% of free
disk space.
This new feature is only enabled by defult in new installations. For existing
installations, the administrator can enable the tool manually after updating to
the latest maintenance update by running:
systemctl --quiet enable spacewalk-diskcheck.timer
systemctl start spacewalk-diskcheck.timer
Full details on the parameterization of this new feature are available in the
Managing disk space documentation page.
Single Page Application UI
In an effort to provide our web UI users with a smoother navigation, we have
implemented large parts of the user interface as a single page application.
This feature is optional for this release and is disabled by default. To enable
it, users can now add web.spa.enable = true to /etc/rhn/rhn.conf, and then
restart Tomcat.
Grafana
Grafana is a tool for data visualization, monitoring, and analysis. It is used
to create dashboards with panels representing specific metrics over a set
period of time. Grafana is commonly used together with Prometheus, but also
supports other data sources such as ElasticSearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and
Influx DB.
This version of Uyuni includes Grafana in the client tools repositories. An
Uyuni Grafana dashboard is provided as an example.
Monitoring section of the Administration Guide contains full detail on how to
configure Grafana together with Uyuni.
Prometheus service autodiscovery
Prometheus is a monitoring tool used to record real-time metrics in a
time-series database. Metrics are collected using HTTP pulls, allowing for
higher performance and scalability.
We have updated the Prometheus package with a new version that include a
built-in service discovery mechanism that will allow users to more easily
configure monitoring on their Uyuni systems.
Previously, after configuring the exporters on managed clients, users had to
manually configure their Prometheus servers to start scrapping metrics from
those systems. With this update, it will be possible to use a "service
discovery" mechanism that will automate this part of the configuration. The
configuration options are simple: it is only required to provide a Uyuni Server
URL and valid API credentials.
Under the hood, what this mechanism does is letting Prometheus poll the Uyuni
API, asking for a list of systems that have monitoring enabled, and
automatically configuring Prometheus to collect metrics from those systems.
In this version, the autodiscovery functionality is provided as a Technology
Preview.
More information about configuring Prometheus can be found in the Monitoring
section of the Administration Guide.
CPU mitigation formula
CPU mitigations have been introduced to improve security on CPUs affected by
vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre. The mitigations are available in
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 and later in the cpu-mitigations-formula package,
which is not installed by default.
The new CPU Mitigation formula allows you to control which mitigations are
enabled.
Updated documentation
The Uyuni documentation has received improvements in all of the books, with
small clarifications and enhancements all around: content lifecycle management
filters, public cloud, JeOS, formulas, etc
Of particular interest for users with large installations will be the new Large
Scale Deployment and Salt Tuning sections in the Salt Guide. Given that
modifying advanced parameters can cause catastrophic failure, we recommend
making a backup and being conservative doing changes.
Additionally, the search functionality in the documentation now works offline.
Enhanced support for Ubuntu and Debian clients
The Multi-Arch and Pre-depends headers are now supported for .deb repositories,
hence avoiding installation problems that could arise in some cases when
deploying packages from the UI.
Also, Ubuntu and Debian channels now come preconfigured in
spacewalk-common-channels. The Debian CDN is used to provide the best mirror at
each moment. For Ubuntu, you may want to replace the default mirror with a
closer geo-mirror.
Keep in mind SUSE does not provide support for the spacewalk-common-channels
tool form the spacewalk-utils package.
New products enabled (from SCC)
* SLES12 SP3 LTSS
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP4
* SLES12 SP5
* RHEL 8 and SLES ES 8
* CaaSP 4
* openSUSE Leap 15.1
SUSE Container as a Service Platform v4 support
The Virtual Host Manager functionality has been extended to support SUSE
Container as a Service Platform v4.
You can register each CaaSP node to Uyuni using the same method as you would a
Salt client. After doing this, you will be able to see the patch level status
of each node, perform configuration management on the nodes and assign channels
o clusters.
We strongly recommend to check the documentation on the scope and extent of the
CaaSPv4 integration in Uyuni: https://www.uyuni-project.org/uyuni-docs/
suse-manager/client-configuration/vhm-caasp.html
Upcoming versions of Uyuni will enhance CaaSP integration.
Other changes
* Since this version, as part of a bugfix, it is no longer allowed to delete
a channel when there are cloned channels based on it.
* Taskomatic now takes a maximum of 4 GB of RAM (it used to be 2 GB), which
better matches the current average use case.
* Salt clients can now be re-provisioned from Uyuni. This allows major
version OS updates for SLES and Uyuni Proxy.
* Normalize date formats for actions, notifications and CLM
Version 4.0.2
Migrating the Server from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2
If you are using DHCP addresses and you do not use DHCP reservations,
migrating from openSUSE Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.0 can change the IP address of
your NICs. If using DHCP, make sure your instances have reserved IP addresses.
Before starting, make sure you have a backup of your server, as it will be
hard to recover from failures during the migration.
4.0.2 is now based on openSUSE Leap 15.1, so a base OS system is required.
To help administrators with the migration, a new script is provided by the
susemanager package at /usr/lib/susemanager/bin/server-migrator.sh
Then, update susemanager package only:
zypper ref
zypper in susemanager
And finally run the script:
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/server-migrator.sh
After the migration is complete, you will be requested to reboot your server
Uyuni Server 4.0.2 works with SUSE Uyuni Proxy 4.0.1.
When upgrading, upgrade the Server first, followed by the Proxies.
Salt 2019.2.0
Salt has been upgraded to the 2019.2.0 release.
We intend to regularly upgrade Salt to more recent versions.
For more detail about changes in your manually-created Salt states, see the
Salt upstream release notes 2019.2.0.
Base system upgrade
The base system was upgraded to openSUSE 15.1.
As a result, all code was ported to run with Python 3 and OpenJDK 11.
Prometheus Monitoring
We now include packages for the latest version of Prometheus, as well as
self-monitoring capabilities for Uyuni.
Prometheus is a monitoring tool that is used to record real-time metrics in a
time-series database.
For more information about Prometheus, see the Administration Guide
Exporters
Exporters convert existing metrics into the format Prometheus requires. We are
now providing the following Prometheus Exporters as packages, for SLE12 and
SLE15 as well as openSUSE Leap 15.1:
* Node exporter - Hardware and operating system metrics
* PostgreSQL exporter - PostgreSQL database metrics
* Squid exporter - Squid Proxy metrics
* Apache exporter - Apache HTTP server metrics
In addition we provide JMX exporter on Uyuni Server.
Monitoring is not yet available for other operating system platforms like Red
Hat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu.
Self-monitoring features in Uyuni
Uyuni provides metrics about its health to Prometheus. Both Server and Proxy
can expose metrics. Self-monitoring can be enabled via the Web UI. For that
purpose, some Prometheus exporters are pre-installed on Uyuni Server and Proxy.
A new formula is also included, to install and manage Node and PostgreSQL
exporters on clients managed by Salt. This formula can be configured in the
Uyuni Web UI.
Content lifecycle management
The content lifecycle management feature allows you to clone software channels
through a lifecycle of several environments. You are able to create content
projects, select a custom set of software channels as sources, and promote
software channels through a pre-defined lifecycle of environments.
You can define filters to exclude specific packages and patches. More filters
will be added in a later release.
Once you have selected your sources you can build the selected set which will
populate the first environment. After the first environment is built, you can
promote it through the environment lifecycle to the next environment in the
loop. You can see the status of the build at any time throughout the process.
The result of the build, and the content of every environment, is a channel
tree made of cloned software channels of the selected sources, to which systems
can be assigned.
Virtualization management for Salt minions
The existing virtualization features have been enhanced for Salt-based systems.
This is a technology preview and will require an additional Virtualization
Management entitlement. Pricing will be announced soon.
Salt-based virtualization host systems can also create virtual machines using a
pre-built disk image.
These features have been added:
* Deleting virtual machines.
* Editing virtual machines to add or remove network interfaces or disk,
change CPU and memory allocation or the display type.
* Quick update of the list and state of virtual machines.
* Displaying virtual machines graphical display in a new tab.
Updated Documentation Structure
In this release, we have reorganized our documentation and updated our tooling
to make it clearer where information is, and make it easier for you to find the
content you need, when you need it.
Old Naming Format
* Getting Started
* Best Practices
* Reference
* Advanced Topics
New Naming Format
* Installation Guide (Requirements, supported platforms, installation
methods, etc)
* Client Configuration Guide (Configuring and connecting clients to Uyuni)
* Upgrade Guide (Migrate and update clients and Uyuni)
* Reference Guide (Comprehensive guide to the Web UI)
* Administration Guide (Maintenance and administration tasks in Uyuni)
* Salt Guide (A comprehensive guide to Salt for system administrators)
* Retail Guide (A guide to using Uyuni for Retail)
Improved logging for Salt Remote Command Page
The Salt Remote Command Page log now every command executed in a separate
logfile (/var/log/rhn/rhn_salt_remote_commands.log). In addition to this, an
entry in the System History is generated for every minion where the command was
executed.
Support for more Distributions as Clients
openSUSE Leap 15.1 and SLE15 SP1 can now be managed.
EoL for openSUSE Leap 42.3 clients
openSUSE Leap 42.3 is now End of Life since July 1st, as announced at the
openSUSE Mailing lists
While the repositories for Leap 42.3 are still available, no support is
provided aymore.
Salt Rate Limiting (Batching)
Any action scheduled on multiple Salt minions has now an upper limit on the
number of systems that will process it simultaneously. This is referred to as
batch size in Salt jargon, and defaults to 100 minions.
Please check the documentation for performance considerations in large
installations (more than 1000 minions).
Product Information Loaded from SCC
In the past information about product channels were shipped via maintenance
updates. Now these information will be downloaded from SUSE Customer Center
(SCC) like the other product and repository information.
In case of using the fromdir configuration with SMT or RMT, please check if
they support already downloading this file. You can get the file with the
following command:
curl -O https://scc.suse.com/suma/product_tree.json
Image build host with SLES 12 SP4
Using SLES 12 SP4 as the base OS for an image build host is now supported.
Also building SLES 12 SP4 OS Images is supported.
Updated backend for communicating with SCC
This update contains a new backend to communicate with the SUSE Customer Center
(SCC). This requires to run a mgr-sync refresh at the end of the update
procedure.
The whole update procedure:
$> spacewalk-service stop
$> zypper patch
$> spacewalk-schema-upgrade
$> spacewalk-service start
$> mgr-sync refresh
In case of Inter Server Sync (ISS) the master needs to be updated first, then
the slave.
This change show products like they are setup in the SUSE Customer Center. As a
consequence of this some older products show no architecture anymore and mirror
all available architectures when such a product is selected for mirroring.
With this change also some invalid product combinations were removed. Please
check /var/log/rhn/rhn_web_ui.log for error messages. Invalid channels can be
removed using spacewalk-remove-channel command.
XMLRPC API changes
Due to the changes in the backend for communicating with SCC corresponding
XMLRPC API has changed:
Deprecated calls:
synchronizeChannels()
synchronizeProductChannels()
New call:
synchronizeRepositories()
For a refresh the XMLRPC API should be called in the following order:
synchronizeChannelFamilies
synchronizeProducts
synchronizeRepositories
synchronizeSubscriptions
Support for Ubuntu Clients
Management of Ubuntu clients is now supported. We provide a repository with
salt packages that can easily be added with spacewalk-common-channels or
manually.
The following new features were added:
* Bootstrapping and performing initial state runs such as setting
repositories and performing profile updates
* Assigning .deb channels to minions
* Information displayed in System details pages
* Package install, update, and remove
* Package install using Package States
* Configuration and state channels
* Support Ubuntu products and Debian architectures in mgr-sync
* Support creating bootstrap repositories for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04
* Add support for Ubuntu in the bootstrap script
* Generate InRelease file for Debian/Ubuntu repos when metadata signing is
enabled
* Trust SUSE GPG key for client tools channels on Ubuntu systems
However, the root user on Ubuntu is disabled by default, so in order to use
bootstrapping, you will require an existing user with sudo privileges for
Python.
Change behavior on token refresh
Channel authentication tokens are valid by default for about 1 year. The renew
of tokens happens automatically some time before they expire but they are not
deployed automatically to the clients.
As the renew happens mostly without noticing by the administrator that behavior
has changed to autodeploy renewed tokens to the clients automatically.
This old behavior can be preserved by setting
token_refresh_auto_deploy = false
in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf and restarting the services.
In case of a token renew without autodeployment enabled a log message will
inform the administrator about it.
New option to force regeneration of channel metadata
A new option --force was added to spacecmd softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache
to force a regeneration of the metadata files.
New products supported
* openSUSE Leap 15.1
* SLES11 SP4 LTSS
* SLES12 SP3 LTSS
* SLES 15 SP1 product family
* CaaSP 4 Toolchain
Package download endpoint override
It is now possible to set a custom protocol, host and path for minions to
download packages at installation time. This will override the default setting
of the Uyuni Server or Uyuni Proxy used at registration time.
Technical preview: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Uyuni supports Single Sign-On authentication by implementing the Security
Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2 protocol. Mandatory requirement: an already
existing and configured SAML Identity Service Provider (IdP). Uyuni must be
reconfigured to use the IdP as the source of authentication and post-login
mapped users must be already created before enabling SSO.
For more on configuring SSO, see the Administration Guide
Version 4.0.1
Support for PostgreSQL 10
A new version of the PostgreSQL database is available in openSUSE Leap 42.3 and
can be used for Uyuni Server.
New installations of Uyuni Server based on openSUSE Leap 42.3 will
automatically pick up this version.
PostgreSQL 10 needs a new version of smdba to initiate backups. This version is
part of Uyuni Server 4.0.1.
Migrating from PostgreSQL 9.6 to PostgreSQL 10
You should have an up-to-date database backup before attempting the migration.
Existing installations of Uyuni Server will need to run
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/pg-migrate-96-to-10.sh
to migrate from PostgreSQL 9.6 to PostgreSQL 10
Your Uyuni Server installation will not be accessible during the migration.
Note The migration will create a copy of the database under /var/lib/pgsql and
thus needs sufficient disk space to hold two copies (9.6 and 10) of the
database.
Since it does a full copy of the database, it also needs considerable time
depending on the size of the database and the IO speed of the storage.
If your system is scarce on disk space you can do an fast, in-place migration
by running
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/pg-migrate-96-to-10.sh fast
The fast migration usually only takes minutes and no additional disk space.
However, in case of failure you need to restore the database from a backup.
This wiki page contains additional information about the database migration.
spacecmd: Support state channels
spacecmd, the command line access to the Uyuni API, has been adapted to support
state channels (aka Salt Minion config channels) with the following changes:
* system_scheduleapplyconfigchannels
+ new call to schedule application of the assigned config channels to the
system (minion only)
* configchannel_updateinitsls
+ new call to update the init.sls file
* configchannel_create
+ adapted call, now has a -t option to specify the channel type (normal
or state)
* configchannel_import
+ adapted call, honors channel type
Please use the help functionality of spacecmd for detailed option descriptions
for each mentioned call.
New API calls
Functions softwarechannel_mergepackages and softwarechannel_errata_merge to
merge packages and errata through spacecmd were added.
spacewalk-common-channels: Support for Uyuni, Fedora 29 and cleanup
Added:
* Uyuni Server, Uyuni Proxy, Uyuni Client Tools, both stable and development
version.
* Fedora 29
Removed:
* Fedora 26
* Spacewalk 2.6 Server and Client Tools
* Spacewalk 2.7 Server and Client Tools
* Spacewalk 2.8 Server
* Spacewalk nightly
* OpenSUSE 13.2 and openSUSE 13.2 Client Tools
Support for more Distributions as Clients
openSUSE Leap 15.0, openSUSE Leap 42.3, SLE12, SLE15, CentOS6 and CentOS7 are
now verified to bootstrap as both salt minions and traditional clients.
New products added to SCC syncing
* SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9
Known issues
Single Sign On, API and CLI tools
Single Sign On can be used to authenticate in the Web UI but not with the API
or CLI tools. This will be fixed in a future release of Uyuni.
EPEL and Salt packages
Using the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux directly on RHEL clients (or
compatible: SLES ES, CentOS, Oracle Linux, etc) will install the Salt packages
from EPEL, which miss some features in the Uyuni-provided Salt packages. This
is an unsupported scenario.
If you need to enable the EPEL repository, make sure you filter out the Salt
packages from EPEL (for instance, by creating a new channel using Content
Lifecycle Management).
RHEL 6, CentOS 6 and Oracle Linux 6 minimal installations
In the case of RHEL 6, CentOS 6 and Oracle Linux 6, the "Minimal" installation
set is missing some packages required for the onboarding to work. It is
recommented to install at least a "Basic Server".
Alternatively, if using a minimal installation, you must install the perl and
openssh-clients packages before onboarding.
RHEL native clients
When autogenerating bootstrap repositories for native RHEL clients, some errors
may be logged from the moment the official Red Hat channels are added until the
moment those channels are fully synchronized for the first time.
This does not affect SLES Expanded Support, CentOS or Oracle Linux.
Registering Spacewalk 2.x/Red Hat Satellite 5.x clients to Uyuni as Salt
minions
If a client machine is running the Red Hat Satellite 5.x agent, registering it
to Uyuni as a Salt minion will fail due to package conflicts.
Registering a RH Satellite 5.x client as a Uyuni traditional client works fine.
Registering a Uyuni traditional client as a Uyuni Salt minion will also work.
Works Fails
RH Satellite 5.x ? Uyuni traditional RH Satellite 5.x ? Uyuni Salt minion
Uyuni traditional ? Uyuni Salt minion
In order to register Red Hat Satellite 5.x clients to Uyuni as Salt minions,
you will need to modify the bootstrap script to remove the Satellite agent
packages first.
Spacewalk 2.x and Oracle Spacewalk 2.x clients will show the same behavior as
Red Hat Satellite 5.x clients
CentOS
When mirroring CentOS AppStreams, only the most up-to-date packages can be
synchronized. If a package was previously synchronized it will remain available
but old versions cannot be synchronized if they never were earlier.
This will be fixed in the next Uyuni release.
Client Tools Notes
URLs of the Client Tools are:
* openSUSE Leap 15.* (x86_64): https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/openSUSE_Leap_15-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
openSUSE_Leap_15.0/
* SLE12 (x86_64, pcc64le. s390x, aarch64): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/SLE12-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
SLE_12/
* SLE15 (x86_64, pcc64le. s390x, aarch64): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/SLE15-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
SLE_15/
* CentOS6, Oracle Linux 6 (i686, x86_64): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/CentOS6-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
CentOS_6/
* CentOS7, Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64, ppc64le): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/CentOS7-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
CentOS_7/
* CentOS8, Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64, ppc64le): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/CentOS8-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
CentOS_8/
* Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64): https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/Ubuntu1604-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
xUbuntu_16.04/
* Ubuntu 18.04 (x86_64): https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/Ubuntu1804-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
xUbuntu_18.04/
* Ubuntu 20.04 (x86_64): https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/Ubuntu2004-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
xUbuntu_20.04/
* Debian 9 (x86_64, aarch64, armv7l, i586): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/Debian9-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
Debian_9/
* Debian 10 (x86_64, aarch64, armv7l, i586): https://download.opensuse.org/
repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/Debian10-Uyuni-Client-Tools/
Debian_10/
Keep in mind you should manage the client tools using the command
spacewalk-common-channels on the server, that will also allow you to add the
required channels for all those operating systems that are freely available.
Supported clients
At the moment the status is the following:
Distribution Salt bootstrap Salt SSH bootstrap Salt bootstrap Traditional
from server from server from client
openSUSE
Leap 15
SLE12
SLE15
CentOS6
CentOS7
CentOS8
Oracle Linux
6
Oracle Linux
7
Oracle Linux
8
Ubuntu16.04
Ubuntu18.04
Ubuntu20.04
Debian9
Debian10
= Working, = Not working, = Untested
With the exception of RHEL/CentOS and Oracle Linux, all maintained SPs and
subversions are supported.
Untested clients
Distribution Salt bootstrap Salt SSH bootstrap Salt bootstrap Traditional
from server from server from client
RHEL6
RHEL7
RHEL8
RHEL6, RHEL7 and RHEL8 are expected to work in the same way CentOS6, CentOS7
and CentOS8 respectively. Client Tools repositories for a CentOS version should
work at the respective RHEL version.
CentOS8 (and therefore RHEL8) does not have support for the traditional client
tools, only salt.
Known limitations
The GPG key for Uyuni Client Tools is not trusted by default by the respective
package management tools for each OS.
The systems will bootstrap without the GPG key being trusted, but will not be
able to install new client tool packages or updated them.
This can be fixed by adding the key uyuni-gpg-pubkey-0d20833e.key to all the
bootscrap scripts at variable ORG_GPG_KEY=. If you already have other keys
there, you can keep them.
For systems bootstrapped from WebUI, a salt state should be created to trust
the key, then the state can be assigned to the organization, and finally it can
be used using an Activation Key and the Configuration Channels to deploy the
change to the clients.
Documentation
It is usable but you can still find some issues, such references to SUSE
Manager that are scheduled to be fixed on subsequent versions.
Installation
Requirements
* OS: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64, fully updated
* Main memory: Minimum 16 GB for base installation
* Disk space: Minimum 100 GB for root partition, Minimum 50 GB for /var/lib/
pgsql, Minimum 50 GB per SUSE product + 100 GB per RHEL product (/var/
spacewalk)
See the Getting Started manual for more details on the system requirements.
Installing the Server
Add the Stable repository:
zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/
Uyuni:/Stable/images/repo/Uyuni-Server-POOL-x86_64-Media1/ uyuni-server
Install the pattern:
zypper in patterns-uyuni_server
Run Yast2 and go to Network Services > Uyuni Setup
Follow the setup assistant.
Update from previous versions of Uyuni Server
WARNING: Make sure you check the documentation this time. Because of the change
from openSUSE Leap 15.1 to openSUSE Leap 15.2, some special steps are required!
You can update from previous Uyuni Server Stable versions.
See the "Upgrade Guide" for detailed instructions on how to upgrade. You will
need to follow the "Upgrade the Server" > "Major Upgrade" section.
All connected clients will continue to run and are manageable unchanged.
Update from previous versions of Uyuni Proxy
When updating, always start with the server first and then continue with the
proxies.
See the release notes for the proxy and the "Upgrade Guide" for detailed
upgrade instructions.
Other information
Red Hat Channels
Managing RHEL clients requires availability of appropriate Red Hat packages.
SUSE Channels
Managing SUSE Linux clients requires availability of appropriate SUSE channels.
Your licensed SUSE products can be used with Uyuni by following the setup
Wizard.
Check the manuals for more information.
Providing feedback
In case of encountering a bug please report it at https://github.com/
uyuni-project/uyuni/issues
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