What's new in version 1.2.0
Fixed a lot of issues and related features
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
roadmap
Permissions and restrictions
- Permissions are now enforced. Please check your role definitions, permission
names have changed and are now enforced everywhere - Configuration preview, Inspect action, Deployment and others can be granted
independently
Auditing
- Director provides a nice activity log. Now it is also possible to additionally
log to Syslog or File in case you want to archive all actions elsewhere. Access
to the audit log in the Director can be controlled with a new permission
Configuration kickstart
- Now imports also existing notification commands
- Kickstart can be re-triggered on demand at any time
Performance
- Config rendering got a huge performance boost. In large environments we
managed it to deploy a real-world configuration 5 times as fast as before
Import / Sync
- Various improvements have been applied, mostly hidden small features that should
make work easier. Better form field descriptions, more possibilities when it
goes to syncing special fields like "imports" - Property modifiers can now generate new modified columns at import time
- New property modifiers are available. There is a pretty flexible DNS lookup, you
can cast to Integer or Boolean, JSON decoding and more is offered - Datalist entries can now be imported and synchronized, this was broken in 1.1
Configuration possibilities
- You can now define assign rules nested as deep as you want, based on all host
and/or service properties - It is now possible to define "assign for" constructs, looping over hashes or
dictionaries - Improved Icinga 2 DSL support in commands, implicit support for skip_key
- More and more developers are contributing code. We therefore simplified the
way to launch our unit tests and provided related documentation - Other objects can be referred as a dropdown or similar in custom variables
GUI and usability
- Form error handling got a lot of tweaking, eventual exceptions are caught in
various places and presented in a readable way - The deployment button is now easier to find
- Configuration preview has been improved and allows a full config diff even
before deploying the configuration - Inheritance loops are now shown in a nice way and can be resolved in the GUI
- A new hidden gem is the multiedit functionality. Press SHIFT/CTRL while
selecting multiple hosts and modify imports, custom vars and other properties
for all of them at once - Errors or warnings in all historic startup logs now link directly to the
related config file at the time being, pointing to the referred line
Agent setup
- The Windows kickstart script got some small improvements and now enables all
related ITL commands per default
CLI
- You can find a few new commands, with the ability to list or fetch all hosts
at once in various ways being the most prominent one
Related modules
- There are now more additional modules implementing Director Hooks. AWS import
for EC2 instances, ELBs and Autoscaling Groups. File import for CSV, JSON,
YAML and XML. We heard from various successful Import source implementations
in custom projects and would love to see more of those being publicly available!