2021-07-16: IAC & DevX Team Status Update
New Blog Schedule
Hey, folks! Just a very quick news item to let you know that from today forward we’ll be moving our blog posts from Friday to Monday, bringing them into line with the rest of our work on Community Days.
Community Contributions
We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:
provision#169: “Add Vagrant provisioner compatibility for additional distros”, thanks to seanmilprovision#168: “Add vagrant options”, thanks to seanmilpuppetlabs-firewall#996: “fix: parsing random_fully in ip6tables”, thanks to scoiataelpuppetlabs-haproxy#489: “allow type ‘default-server’ for balancermember”, thanks to trefzerpuppetlabs-haproxy#487: “Use Puppet-Datatype Sensitive”, thanks to cocker-ccpuppetlabs-kubernetes#527: “Add ttl_duration to README”, thanks to danifrpuppetlabs-kubernetes#526: “Change default runc version to 1.0.0”, thanks to danifrpuppetlabs-kubernetes#511: “Support both standard Calico and Calico Tigera”, thanks to treydockpuppetlabs-mysql#1415: “Fix mysql_user parameters update on modern MySQL”, thanks to weasturpuppetlabs-mysql#1414: “(IAC-1677) Fix issue with deprecated rspec”, thanks to ghoneycuttpuppetlabs-mysql#1409: “Deprecate mysql::server::mysqltuner and show it as an example”, thanks to ghoneycuttpuppetlabs-mysql#1408: “Deprecate mysql::server::monitor and show as an example”, thanks to ghoneycuttpuppetlabs-mysql#1406: “Remove EOL platforms Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04”, thanks to ghoneycutt and the following people who helped get it over the line (alexjfisher)puppetlabs-mysql#1405: “(MODULES-11115) add Rocky Linux 8 compatibility”, thanks to vchepkov and the following people who helped get it over the line (ghoneycutt)puppetlabs-stdlib#1193: “(MAINT) Remove testing logic for Puppet 4.5”, thanks to b4ldrpuppetlabs-stdlib#1192: “Stdlib::Http::Method: Add new type for http methods”, thanks to b4ldrpdk-templates#442: “Setskip_branch_with_prto true by default in appveyor.yml template”, thanks to TraGicCode
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New Module / Gem Releases
The following modules were released this week:
puppetlabs-haproxy(6.1.0)puppetlabs-mysql(11.1.0)
Other Work
Tomcat’s week
This week we focused on the Tomcat module; as tomcat7 is EOL, we’ve made the necessary changes to solve the issues coming with the removal of it. Also, we worked at a feature which allows you to remove webapps and a PR for tomcat7 removal was opened.