Dear users and contributors,
Now that 2020 is coming to an end, I'd like to take a quick look back at what
year was for Uyuni.
During 2020 we saw the community grow in numbers, not just in terms of users,
but also in terms of active contributors. Now we have people helping with the
translations, the documentation, the code itself (be it bugfixing or even new
features), and helping other fellow users at the mailing lists or Gitter.
Here are some highlights of what we all accomplished during the last 12
months:
- We now release each month or two months: 8 releases this year (versus 1 in
2019 and 2 in 2018).
- Since May 2020, we have been holding monthly Uyuni Community Hours meetings,
with presentations both from the main contributor (SUSE) and the community.
- We started a YouTube channel and populated it with videos on how to use
Uyuni, translate it, test it and analyze its performance [1].
- We moved our chat from IRC to Gitter [2]
- Mailing lists were moved to the new system [3] (kudos to the openSUSE Heroes
team!)
- Uyuni can now be translated, and that brought a lot of contributors that
already did an impressive job in a number of languages.
- Support for new OS as clients: CentOS/RHEL 8 (including ppc64le for CentOS
7/8), Ubuntu 20.04, Oracle Linux 6/7/8 and Debian 9/10.
- A lot of improvements in monitoring with Prometheus such as: new exporters
(and supported OSs), autodiscovery, federation and reverse proxy.
- Grafana, which can be used (among other things) to show the status of the
prometheus monotoring.
- Performance improvements for repository syncing.
- Uyuni Hub: allows management of several Uyuni Servers from a central one.
- Recurring actions.
- Usability improvements: automated database schema upgrade, autogeneration of
bootstrap repositories, UI icons for child channel synchronization status,
etc
- New formulas and improved formulas (cpu mitigations, prometheus federation,
prometheus exporters, Uyuni Hub...).
- Single sign-on (SSO).
- WebUI themes.
- Server and Proxy were updated to openSUSE Leap 15.2, that brought salt 3000
and PostgreSQL 12
- Yomi: new installer framework for openSUSE And SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux,
with formulas and forms for easy use
- A port of the Server to CentOS 8 was started
Keep in mind this is just a brief hightlight. The release notes [2] contain so
many changes and improvements that we cannot possibly list all of them here.
This was only possible thanks to the combined effort of all people from the
community, SUSE and openSUSE, and we can all be proud of the results.
Let me wish you all the best for the upcoming year 2021, for your personal
endeavours, and for your work at Uyuni, and for all your loved ones.
Keep up the good work, and remember to have a lot of fun!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0SkZFAw9vPCFeUIYqZQ5A
[2] https://gitter.im/uyuni-project
[3] https://lists.uyuni-project.org/archives/?name=uyuni
[4] https://www.uyuni-project.org/doc/2020.11/release-notes-uyuni-server.html
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Julio González Gil
Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni
jgonzalez(a)suse.com
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Julio González Gil
Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni
jgonzalez(a)suse.com
