Asgard 1.5.1 - Emergency Maintenance Release

Amazon have updated their pricing JSON, which breaks Asgard's cache populators. This release resolves that issue.

asgard-1.5

Features

• Platform-independent user data provider option (formatted like a properties file)
• Ability to run Asgard in one AWS account and AssumeRole to manage a different account
• Automated deployment can accept arbitrary user-chosen steps
• Each application can have an optional application group
• Each application can have optional tags
• Enable configurable maximum number of ASGs per cluster
• REST endpoints for retrieving a deployment workflow plan JSON blob, and for starting a workflow with that JSON
• Additional ways to configure Asgard to get AWS credentials, including from an IAM profile
• Updated list of AWS instance types
• Links to security groups include both name and ID
• Made it possible to skip cache loading during cache loading, using runtime flag API
• Support for HTTPS ELB listeners (Thanks Greg Dziemidowicz)
• Configurable AWS API socket timeout value
• Shared visibility all of in-memory running tasks across Asgard instances in a cluster
• Filterable instance reservations by offering type

Infrastructure

• Turn off noisy, legacy task completion emails
• Introduced AngularJS for auto deployment screens, with Grunt build and JavaScript unit tests
• Asgard's health check should fail while initializing, but then should pass forever, for desired load balancer behavior
• Asgard can register with Eureka service for conventional discoverability
• "Wither" function to have Asgard delete itself after it finishes all running in-memory tasks
• Separate SimpleDB service from Application service
• Store SWF tokens in database
• Ability to set arbitrary headers via RestClientService (Thanks e0d)
• Upgraded frigga library to allow for letters in version strings of AMI appversion tags
• Converted more JUnit tests to Spock

Bug Fixes

• List of VPCs for security group creation only includes VPCs that have conventionally labeled subnets
• List of ELBs over 400 can be listed successfully
• List of RDS DB instances over 100 can be listed successfully
• Rolling push can work with spot instances (Thanks Dale Wijnand)
• Force U.S. dollars for Amazon-listed currency amounts (Thanks Dale Wijnand)
• Allow an initial size of 0 for creating the next ASG in a cluster

asgard-1.4.2

1.4.2

Features

• Stop entire workflow if exception happens at any time during long auto deployment
• Auto deploy should still work even without Eureka configured

Infrastructure

• In-browser functional regression test suite with Geb
• Updated to Glisten 0.3
• Contributing guidelines document
• More unit tests
• More CodeNarc rules

Bug Fixes

• Fixed error on instance detail screen and rolling push
• Made Volume cache loading optional for initialization, since it fails often and isn't very important

asgard-1.4.1

Bug Fixes

• Support for updating load balancer in recent AWS region-accounts that have a default VPC
• Support for creating auto scaling groups with load balancers in recent AWS region-accounts that have a default VPC
• Only one auth-revoke task with many IP permissions for each security group pair change
• Zebra-stripe more lists before JavaScript loads

Infrastructure

• Some code clean up
• More unit tests

asgard-1.4

Features

• Route53 interface
• Instance sub-lists by Eureka application, where available
• Allow editing SNS Topic MessageRetentionPeriod
• Update SQS Queue policy automatically when the Queue gets subscribed to an SNS Topic
• Navigation links between associated SNS Topic and SQS Queue detail screens
• Verify ELB status for instances during auto deploy ASG health check
• Expose AWS account attributes at /account/attributes.json
• Monitor Bucket Type of "none" for applications
• Show filter on Stack list screen

Infrastructure

• Many CodeNarc rules required
• Suppress cookie warnings from remote servers in log
• Sporadic unit test concurrency-based failure fixed
• Don't pull in Glisten's transitive dependencies
• Upgrade to AWS Java SDK 1.6.6
• Update, harden, and simplify Instance Types metadata system
• Removed jsoup dependency

Bug Fixes

• Handle badly formatted Workflow Execution tags gracefully

asgard-1.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed startup error for new Asgard installations that lack an existing Config.groovy file
• Fixed startup error for AWS accounts that don't yet have an "asgard" SWF domain

asgard-1.3

1.3

Features

• Auto-deployment process (beta)
• Faster cache loading system initialization
• More informative startup loading screen
• Hide Desired Size input by default on ASGs that have scaling policies or scheduled actions
• Show VPC on security group
• Support for displaying notifications from Blesk
• Basic initial support for the concept of an optional Application Group field
• New, more powerful AdvancedUserDataProvider pluggable interface to replace limited legacy UserDataProvider
• Allowed Firefox read-only usage, disabled submit buttons instead of page loads (Some forms are still not FF-safe)

Infrastructure

• Integration with SWF and Glisten
• Upgraded to Grails 2.2.4
• Stop spamming log with warning about image tags
• Sped up unit test runs
• Shorter system email subject lines
• Moved filters to a package to make them easier to test
• Refactored some config access code
• Improved factory model for unit-tested instantiation of various ASG and LC related objects
• More GroovyDoc comments
• Shared IdService for generating numerical or UUID identifier strings for multiple types

Bug Fixes

• Instance types missing price info are sorted to bottom of drop-down instead of top
• Fixed a memory leak
• Prepared OneLogin integration for Java 7 and Grails 2.2.4
• Fixed bug in /instance/appversions
• Made raw instance log output null safe
• ASG force delete starts long-running task until deletion completes
• Scheduled Action links are now properly regional
• Preserve query params on login redirect from cluster screen

asgard-1.2

Features

• Choose healthiest Eureka nodes, and retry calls
• Expose ELB "other" policies, read-only for now

Infrastructure

• Upgrade to CodeNarc 0.18.1

Bug Fixes

• 404 Not Found response for non-existent DBSnapshot
• Allow two-letter app names in select2 drop-downs
• Rolling Push should retain block device mappings
• Fail scale-up operation if traffic allowed and status not UP
• New install should show correct warning in Firefox for now