Azure/batch-shipyard 3.5.0

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Notable new features in 3.5.0

• Batch Pool, RemoteFS, and container monitoring through Prometheus and Grafana
• JSON output with --raw option for supported commands
• Microsoft Azure Batch published Marketplace image support for native container pools and native auto-conversion support
• Stepped increments of compute nodes in scenario-based autoscale evaluations
• Fallback registry support for increased resiliency in provisioning Batch Shipyard system images during compute node provisioning
• XFS filesystem support for RemoteFS storage cluster devices
• Support for fs cluster expand for mdadm-based devices
• aad auth for storage credentials
• product_iterables task factory support
• default_working_dir option for containers
• Increased performance of some commands that involve multiple entities
• Support to enable SSH user access to Docker daemon without sudo
• Boot diagnostics and serial console support enabled for all RemoteFS and monitoring VMs
• Host OS support for CentOS-HPC 7.4 and CentOS 7.5 (including GPU support)
• Support for mounting Azure Storage blob containers on native container pools
• CUDA 9.2 support of NC-series VMs
• GlusterFS 4.1 support
• Microsoft Azure Distributed Linear Learner recipe

Breaking changes

• Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 7.3 host OS support dropped
• install.sh defaults to installing in a virtual environment
• account_key and aad auth for batch are now mutually exclusive

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.