Highlights

• xRes, xWeb installation playbooks
• ansible: inventory now supports variable inheritance order
• ansible: introduced role-specific tags
• system: new kernel, selinux control
• monitoring: network devices, raid status, mysql backups

Added

• xres, xweb installation playbooks for 70% automatic rollout
• ansible: introduced role-specific tags for running single actions
• tmux starter: start parallel login to multiple servers by ansible pattern
• tools: sysstat package (mpstat, iostat)
• tools: logcat - log dumper including compressed files
• csvedit: command line csv file editor
• ssh: automatic ed25519 key generation for root
• base: implemented kernel installation and update
• bootstrap, monitoring: support for bonding network besides teamd setup
• monitoring of xRes db02 database backups

Changes

• bootstrap: adjustet centos release installation so installing centos7 from centos8 vmhost works
• nscd and _template role: changed tag handling - implemented role-specific tags, removed tags from sub-task files
• tools: tmux starter - sort filtered hosts before connecting, added help
• replace static kernel-ml setup by Oracle kernel UEK-R6
• dropped support for excel based inventory file, now all data is kept in csv files
• bootstrap: changed cpu placement auto > static to prevent kernel humg timeout
• inventory: dismissed excel file, split out multiple csv text files
• collectd: implemented removal of bad modules and fixed server location gs/rz1 and implemented disabling networkserver plugin for gs
• selinux: permissive mode by default for linux_server systems
• inventory: moved from nuky excel to csv files, var inheritance by group order
• raid status monitoring: switched to s.m.a.r.t. state evaluation
• adjusted log rotation for centos system, fixed stalled rsyslog when sending SigHUP