IMPORTANT

Note:

• With this release (v0.13), installation instructions are changed and can be found at vDVS Installation User Guide
• DEB/RPM packages will be deprecated going forward and will not be available.

What's New

• Shipping guest docker volume plugin as managed plugin
• vDVS is Docker Certified to use with Docker Enterprise Edition and available in Docker store.
• VIB is signed and available at (no need to pass --no-sig-check)
• tenant got renamed to vmgroup
• Performance improvement

Contact us at

• containers@vmware.com
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Downloads

Installation instructions

• ESX VIB: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=VMWare_bootbank_esx-vmdkops-service_0.13.15d313a-0.0.1.vib
• ESX VIB Offline Bundle: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=vmware-esx-vmdkops-0.13.15d313a.zip
• Docker plugin: docker plugin install --grant-all-permissions --alias vsphere vmware/docker-volume-vsphere:0.13
• DEB: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=docker-volume-vsphere_0.13.15d313a_amd64.deb
• RPM: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=docker-volume-vsphere-0.13.15d313a-1.x86_64.rpm

Change Log

0.13 (2017-03-31)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• Admin cli vm-group ls takes extremely long time to list all the tenants. #1104
• tiny bug in documentation #1067
• vmdkops_admin.py volume ls is super slow on large count of volumes #1054
• 'Docker volume ls' command throws error after upgrading from 0.11.1 build to 0.12 build. #981
• Lower case input "true" passed to "vmdkops_admin.py tenant access set --allow-create ALLOW_CREATE" is misinterpreted as false. #918
• Volume created from vm1 (ESX1) inside tenant1 but is visible from vm2 (ESX2). #1111
• Test upgrade with version change #1102
• Change vm-group #1101
• [Tenant] Volume creation fails after renaming the default tenant. #1092
• Close the watcher instance in the plugin after event is received. #1080
• collect whole ESX logs #1077
• Make ESX OPs resilient to retries #1076
• [Cross ESX] 'Attached to vm' field is not populated even though volume is attached to a container. #1053
• Bring plugin volume discovery back #1050
• [Tenancy] Volume attach/detach should handle inflight membership change of VM to tenant #1045
• [DEFAULT tenant] Volume is created on the datastore where vm resides and not on specified default-datastore #1044
• deb Installation doesn't survive VM restart #1039
• AdminCLI set command need to take "--vm-group" arg instead of "--tenant" #1035
• Need to fix admin-cli.md user guide for volume part #1026
• Regression in admin_cli with choices #1024
• Install on Ubuntu Docker host with docker version 17.03.0-ce failed #1023
• Build and test managed plugin support in CI #1020
• collect syslog (linux kernel log) in case of test failure #1008
• Corrupted reply mesage to a typo in docker volume create command #1002
• Unable to modify access attribute for volume from admin-cli #998
• [Tenant]Error message is not clear while trying to add two vms with same names to a tenant. #994
• [Tenant] Inconsistent docker volume ls output in case of orphaned VMs #990
• [Tenant] need make sure _DEFAULT tenant create with constant UUID after delete and recreate #986
• rename tenant to "project" #982
• Reduce the amount of logs generated by docker volume service #978
• vmdk_ops fails to start after ESX reboot #976
• Admin cli command to list volume fails #972
• [Tenant] "vmdkops_admin tenant vm ls" is not showing VMs belongs to _DEFAULT tenant #965
• [Tenant] Add tenant column to admin ls commands #964
• Failed to create filesystem #962
• [Tenant] Improve error message thrown while trying to add same vm to another tenant #930
• Perform manual validation for Docker Swarm Mode interop identified tests #927
• The command behavior of "tenant rm" and "policy rm" are inconsistent #922
• Datastore names with embedded spaces in them can't be used when creating a volume. [#916](https://github.com/vmware/docker-volume-vsphere
• Ship guest docker volume plugin as managed plugin #886
• Docker 1.13 support/interop #882
• TestConcurrency is failing: volume creation is failing against docker 1.13 on ubuntu 16.04 VMs #881
• Not able to create vsphere docker volume (using short volume names) after renaming datastore; running into "IndexError('list index out of range',)" #818
• VMs used in CI must not have a PVSCSI controller. #579
• docker volume inspect command cause vmdkops service crash when the volume name is unicode character #575
• Ability to query policies when creating Docker Volume #421
• Add version control to over-vmci protocol #318
• VIB signing #273

Merged pull requests:

• Acceptance level is accepted now #1126 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Refreshing vDVS installation user guide for 0.13 release #1124 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Rename "vm-group" to "vmgroup". #1120 (lipingxue)
• Not returning orphan/unknown tenant volumes during docker volume ls #1114 (pshahzeb)
• Fix for slow "vmdkops_admin vm-group ls" #1108 (pdhamdhere)
• Fix the issue that client without protocol version set cannot talk to server with protocol version check. #1106 (lipingxue)
• Minor test improvements #1100 (pdhamdhere)
• Disallow renaming the default tenant. #1099 (govint)
• Enabling timeout based usage of docker client API during startup #1097 (pshahzeb)
• Create volume on default datastore if default_ds is set for _DEFAULT tenant #1095 (lipingxue)
• Make ESX Ops idempotent #1084 (pdhamdhere)
• Close watcher after event is received. #1081 (govint)
• Disabling concurrency test on same host #1066 (pdhamdhere)
• Persisting VM name in KV while attaching volume #1064 (pshahzeb)
• Handling tenancy related edge cases #1060 (pshahzeb)
• Fix iNotifyWatch timeout #1058 (pdhamdhere)
• Moved admin 'ls' and 'set' commands under 'volume' #1055 (msterin)
• removed .pyc files [trivial] #1052 (msterin)
• Added errno generation in VMCI failures where errno was not set #1049 (msterin)
• Check vmciVersion between client and server. #1046 (lipingxue)
• Change AdminCLI set command to take "--vm-group" arg, and change AdminCLI user guide #1037 (lipingxue)
• Made pylint happy about spaces in auth_data.py, plus fixed a few typos #1034 (msterin)
• Documentation update for admin policy rm and docker volume inspect commands #1030 (pshahzeb)
• Setting LANG environment variable for proper encoding #1029 (pshahzeb)
• Fix the issue that installation on Ubuntu Docker host with docker version 17.03.0-ce. #1028 (lipingxue)
• Showing list of available policies in case of wrong policy name #1022 (pshahzeb)
• Rename tenant to vm group.liping #1021 (lipingxue)
• Added Makefile flexibility to use in CI and dev builds #1019 (msterin)
• make TestVolumeCreationFirstTime data driven to run against both vms on we use on CI #1018 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Allow setting log level from docker plugin install #1015 (msterin)
• Add "Tenant" column in "vmdkops_admin ls" output and fix "vmdkops_admin set" command #1014 (lipingxue)
• Change ESX log size defaults to 1 MiB size and 1 backup file #1007 (msterin)
• Support for building DVS as Docker Managed Plugin. #1006 (msterin)
• Detach after mount failure, and a small fix for logs #1005 (msterin)
• Correct printing of error info message for docker volume create command #1004 (pshahzeb)
• Docker volume service handles connection issues with host agent. #1000 (govint)
• Properly handle successful Run() with stale errno #999 (msterin)
• Admincli improvement #993 (pshahzeb)
• Handling tenant vm add, delete, replace corner cases #992 (pshahzeb)
• Make sure _DEFAULT created after remove is created with constant UUID #988 (lipingxue)
• fixed type of convert() return for values < 1KB #985 (msterin)
• Make change to authorize() function to take "datastore_url" and volume create fail after datastore rename #979 (lipingxue)
• Handle VMCI receive errors in the plugin on attach requests. #941 (govint)
• Update README.md #1115 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Adding .drone.sec for commit c6b7ac3 #1090 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Diabling vsan60 tests due to testbed slowness #1088 (shuklanirdesh82)
• collecting all logs for ESX/VMs #1085 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Updated GO and GoVC version #1063 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Build and test managed plugin support in CI fixes #1020 #1061 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Reworked managed plugin make to provide cleaner plugin names #1048 (msterin)
• Disabled volume discovery and added env var to enable it if needed #1047 (msterin)
• [Trivial] Update docker-volume-cli.md - correcting typo for "attach-as" option #1041 (shuklanirdesh82)
• [Trivial] Correcting vmdkops_admin -c option #1025 (shuklanirdesh82)
• collecting linux kernel logs #1016 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Allow to use latest Docker (v 17.xx and later) in build #997 (msterin)
• Rearranging the test execution order #989 (shuklanirdesh82)