Bcfg2 0.9.6 Release

This page describes the development goals, release status and new features for the 0.9.6 release.

Development Goals

• piling more modes (in an organized way) into bcfg2-admin, putting more of the ad hoc stuff from the tools directory into the hands of package-only users
• streamlining acquisition/analysis
• Continuous mode for the client -- where only previously conforming entries are changed
• Centralized per-entry decision support (for building automatic reconfiguration processes), both rule-based and point-in-time
• Cleaning up the revision control support
  • Support for server-initiated writes (clients.xml/ssh keys/bcfg2-admin pull data)
  • Plugin infrastructure for other revision ctl systems
• Modular data source support -- adding the ability to build a set of data inputs for configuration generation interfacing with:
  • ldap
  • mysql
  • files
  • PODIM

Release Status

• 0.9.6pre3 (10/10/08)

New Features

• Client- and group-specific TCheetah and TGenshi templates
• Client- and group-specific SGenshi structures
• Client- and group-specific Probes
• Multi-fingerprint support in the client
• Rework bcfg2-admin (and implement unattended bcfg2-admin pull)
• bcfg2-reports?
• Editor Plugin: support cfengine style file edits without a centralized set of information
• DBStats Plugin: Load statistics directly into the database from the server
• Dynamic group information available in bcfg2-info
• BB plugin: a network provisioning plugin that replaces the stock metadata plugin
• Query mode for bcfg2-admin
• Preliminary FreeBSD rc support
• Pkgmgr optimizations (results in 10X speedup in startup on python2.4+)
• Unicode support
• Client locking support: prevent multiple client runs at the same time
• Add fs event debugging in bcfg2-info
• Support for direct file logging (ie bcfg2 -o /tmp/bcfg2.log)