QUADS 2.1 is Released!

A few weeks ahead of schedule, QUADS 2.1 brings immense improvement and simplicity to QUADS design by removing our WordPress component entirely and serving all automated wiki/inventory/visuals natively via quads-web

What’s Changed?

Over the course of ~6 months of parallel development up to and through the 2.0 release of QUADS we rewrote all of the functionality previously provided by WordPress (automated wiki/inventory/etc) in pure Python, Flask and Jinja2.  This resulted in some of the following changes and improvements:

• Complete removal of the WordPress component/dependency from QUADS
• Removal of large parts of the code-base dedicated to automating the sync of QUADS status/wiki/inventory over the WordPress XMLRPC/Python API.
• The quads-web service will now handle our dynamic inventory and wiki component directly via Flask
• 13 x commits, 74 changed files with 1,724 additions and 2,045 deletions
• Full release notes here

Major Feature Highlights

• Full removal of WordPress as the QUADS automated wiki component
• Removal of large parts of the code-base dedicated to automating the sync of QUADS status/wiki/inventory over the WordPress XMLRPC/Python API.
• The quads-web service will now handle our dynamic inventory and wiki component directly via Flask
• Wiki content and navigation menus are now instantly generated
• Ability to serve your own static content and menus is documented here
• Huge performance improvements in quads –regen-heatmap using asyncio
• Much easier adoption for new users

Architecture Overview

This is what the QUADS 2.1 architecture looks like now:

 

Breaking Changes and Migrations

System Requirements

• A supported version of Fedora Server is required if using our RPM packages
• Recommended VM with 8 x vcpu and 8 x GB of memory.
• For full features, an existing Foreman that manages your DNS, DHCP, PXE and systems lifecycle

Migrating from 1.1.8

• You should follow the upgrade instructions from 2.0.5 for the steps and data migration needed to move to 2.1.

Migrating from 2.0.5

• Several conf/quads.yml changes have been completed removed.
• Nginx vhost configuration files have been simplified, see upgrade notes.

See the bottom of the changelog for full details