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 -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez@suse.com -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez@suse.com
An interesting summary, Julio - thank you. As someone who only learned of Uyuni in late spring after Spacewalk was deprecated and I was casting around for alternatives, I have to say this has rapidly become one of my favourite open source projects. The team seems really open to new ideas, and I've enjoyed the few Community hours meetings I joined. Documentation is very good, and the support methods have helped make our migration to Uyuni much smoother than it might have been and turned off Spacewalk several months ago. We now run one Uyuni server with around 160 clients; mixed Centos 7, Centos 8 and Centos 8 Stream. We've been bitten hard by the premature EOL of C8 and the new year is likely to lead to some significant architecture changes for us. It's very reassuring to know that all of our shortlisted distro replacements for C8L are already supported by Uyuni. Great job, everyone.
An interesting summary, Julio - thank you. As someone who only learned of Uyuni in late spring after Spacewalk was deprecated and I was casting around for alternatives, I have to say this has rapidly become one of my favourite open source projects. The team seems really open to new ideas, and I've enjoyed the few Community hours meetings I joined. Documentation is very good, and the support methods have helped make our migration to Uyuni much smoother than it might have been and turned off Spacewalk several months ago. We now run one Uyuni server with around 160 clients; mixed Centos 7, Centos 8 and Centos 8 Stream. We've been bitten hard by the premature EOL of C8 and the new year is likely to lead to some significant architecture changes for us. It's very reassuring to know that all of our shortlisted distro replacements for C8L are already supported by Uyuni. Great job, everyone.
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