A new year, a new QUADS! After almost three months of development we’re happy to release version 1.1.2. This includes some major features like reporting and other enhancements and bug fixes. Building on the strong foundation of the 1.1 series we include around 11 x enhancements and 17 x fixes to QUADS and Badfish. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.2 is Released!”
Author: Will Foster
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QUADS 1.1.1 is Released!
A month after the landmark 1.1.0 release we’re happy to release version 1.1.1. This is a minor enhancement and bug fix release with approximately 17 x code patches since 1.1.0. This also coincidentally marks the 3rd anniversary of the QUADS project!. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.1 is Released!”
QUADS 1.1.0 is Released!
After over 7 months of development since 1.0.2 and massive architectural, design, and re-factoring overhauls we’re proud to announce the next-generation QUADS 1.1.0 codenamed gaúcho. A monumental amount of enhancements, fixes and redesign efforts going back over a year form the foundation of the 1.1 series. Continue reading “QUADS 1.1.0 is Released!”
Badfish is now Containerized
You can now run Badfish very quickly and easily in a docker container. There’s no need for Python libraries or git you simply need Docker installed. This is useful for people on Mac OSX or Windows for example or older Linux distributions who may not have Python libraries required like python-requests or python-pyyaml. Continue reading “Badfish is now Containerized”
What is Badfish?
Badfish is a vendor-agnostic, redfish-based API tool used to consolidate management of IPMI and out-of-band interfaces for common server hardware vendors. Badfish is also a popular song from Sublime, this may be a coincidence. Read more about Badfish here.
QUADS CI is Revamped
We’ve revamped our QUADS Jenkins CI to use Docker containers and instantiate a full QUADS stack (wiki, wiki_db, quads, quads_db, nginx) for every patchset committed to Gerrit code review. Below is a not-so-artistic diagram of how it all works. Continue reading “QUADS CI is Revamped”
What is QUADS?
QUADS is a framework for providing automated future scheduling, documentation, end-to-end provisioning and assignment of servers and networks. QUADS is used primarily in the Red Hat Performance Engineering R&D labs to manage large sets of constantly changing bare-metal systems and networks. Read more here.
