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Badfish has received substantial updates and fixes in the 1.6/1.7 release, including its own Redfish emulator for developing/testing against a mock iDRAC without bare metal. iDRAC10 support, configurable REST timeouts, multi-vendor detection and a lot more are within, come have a look! Continue reading “New Badfish Features!”
quads-client is a new CLI and GUI for managing QUADS servers, built for the way we actually work: self-scheduling without tickets, multi-server sessions, and a terminal UI that is genuinely pleasant to use. It is available now via RPM or PyPi (Mac/Windows/Linux), with full self-scheduling support on QUADS 2.2.6.
Spring is almost here and so arrives QUADS 2.2.6, a major feature and bugfix release introducing bootmode management of BIOS and EFI for your bare-metal fleet plus some other major fixes and Spring cleaning (refactoring). Continue reading “QUADS 2.2.6 Has Arrived!”
We’ve posted a tentative development roadmap for 2026 over on Github. We’ve got lots of exciting things planned through the year and major features across just about every facet of QUADS. Continue reading “Development Roadmap for 2026”
A spooky new QUADS this way comes! QUADS 2.2.4 is a major feature release packed with facing UI treats like per-server hardware pages, a new interactive network topography feature and bags full of fixes and other back-end enhancements. Continue reading “QUADS 2.2.4 is Released!”
Since the release of our self-scheduling API we’ve gotten fantastic feedback! To add to the many ways of consuming it we’ve authored a robust Ansible playbook for a quick and dirty way to self-schedule sets of hosts via the SSM API. Continue reading “Self-Schedule QUADS Hosts with Ansible”
With Summertime around the corner we present QUADS 2.2.2. This is a minor feature release with significant performance improvements around bare-metal environment delivery clocking in 25-30% faster than before due to a more configurable and simplified revamp of BIOS boot order management orchestration. Continue reading “QUADS 2.2.2 is Here!”
QUADS 2.2.0 is released featuring the long-awaited self-scheduling API feature. GPU hardware filtering to compliment AI workloads, a freshly painted dark theme for quads-web and other features and fixes come along for the ride in this milestone release.
It all started 8 years ago during EuroPython 2017 when Will introduced me to QUADS 1.0 and how their whole client-facing inventory and UI was relying on a heavy WordPress dependency. I was adamant that if I ever joined the team I would replace WordPress with a proper Python web service.
Continue reading “The Evolution of quads-web”
Right before Christmas QUADS 2.1.6 has arrived. This is a performance, features and bug fix release built on our landmark 2.1 series architecture. We’re excited to scoot down the chimney and deliver a mix of admin and user-facing improvements before a well-deserved break after a busy year.
Continue reading “QUADS 2.1.6 is Here!”
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