orcharhino 5.10. Release Notes

Key Feature

• New file repositories that provide local installation media für Debian 9 + 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 + 20.04.
• New job template to add and configure additional operating systems after the initial orcharhino installation
• Reworked install_orcharhino.sh to append /etc/hosts instead of overwriting it
• Improved error message when trying to connect to VMware vSphere with wrong credentials
• Delete Salt Keys on Salt Master when host is deleted
• bootstrap.py now adds sub-certificates as trusted certificate on Ubuntu
• New link to templates DSL on Administer > About page
• Installation media and partion tables are now optional during orcharhino installation
• Location context now optional for all provisioning templates and partition tables
• New convenient ‘select all’ button on operating system selection during orcharhino installation
• New API endpoint ‘content_facet’ to quickly get JSON-Array of Content-Status data for hosts filtered by locations
• orcharhino clients
  • Enabling traces on Debian and Ubuntu now installs the katello-host-tools-tracer package
  • Added tracer upload to katello-host-tools
  • Upgraded katello-host-tools for SLES 15 to version 3.5.5
  • Upgraded subscription-manager for Debian and Ubuntu to version 1.28
• ACD
  • Improved reporting during application instance deployment
  • New option to reference host parameters in Ansible variables
  • New button to select/deselect all hosts when deleting an Application Instance
  • Synchronizing git repositories without specifying a branch; ACD selects the default branch of the repository
• SCC Manager
  • SCC Manager now uses global content proxy instead of proxy from Adminster > Settings
• orcharhino documentation
  • New guide on using and updating custom SSL certificates
  • Reworked Salt for configuration management guide
  • Added Salt Minion Authentication procedure using Salt Autosign Grains
  • Added procedure on how to use repositories of type file which is especially useful for installation media
  • New managing SLES systems guide
  • New managing Debian systems guide
  • New managing hosts guide
  • Added best practices about content management and sync plans
  • Added use cases for orcharhino to deploy an internal application
• Salt
  • New option to authenticate hosts using Salt Autosign Grains

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug that prevented generating an incremental update of an associated content view due to orcharhino Proxies in different locations
• Fixed bug with host group inheritance where certain fields would not be inherited correctly

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