RHEA-2018:1534 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated ovirt-ansible-roles packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

The ovirt-ansible-roles package contains Ansible roles, which automate common Red Hat Virtualization administration tasks.

Changes to the ovirt-ansible-roles component:

• Added a new script is introduced to execute several operations, such as

validate, fail-over, fail-back, generate_vars (BZ#1532083)

• The oVirt.cluster-upgrade Ansible role is now available as part of the ovirt-ansible-cluster-upgrade package, which is installed as a dependency of the ovirt-ansible-roles package. (BZ#1157372)
• The oVirt.cluster-upgrade role can be used to automate upgrading all hosts in cluster. (BZ#1486207)
• The oVirt.infra Ansible role can be used to automate data center setup. (BZ#1486237)
• The oVirt.image-template Ansible role can be used to automate creating a virtual machine template from external image. (BZ#1486239)
• The oVirt.manageiq Ansible role can be used to download a ManageIQ or Red Hat CloudForms QCOW2 image and create a virtual machine from it. You can also register a provider in the ManageIQ or Red Hat CloudForms installation. (BZ#1486243)
• The oVirt.vm-infra Ansible role can be used to automate creating a virtual machine infrastructure. (BZ#1486249)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1157372 - [RFE] Introduce Ansible role ovirt-cluster-upgrade, which can perform upgrade of the whole cluster
• BZ - 1483078 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-cluster-upgrade: Run 'check for upgrade' action
• BZ - 1484965 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-image-template: missing jmespath-terminal
• BZ - 1486207 - [RFE] Introduce Ansible role for cluster upgrade
• BZ - 1486237 - [RFE] Introduce Ansible role to set up data center infrastructure
• BZ - 1486239 - [RFE] Introduce Ansible role to create VM template from external image
• BZ - 1486243 - [RFE] Introduce Ansible role to download ManageIQ qcow2 image and deploy it as a VM
• BZ - 1486249 - [RFE] Introduce Ansible role to set up a VM
• BZ - 1486368 - [BREW BUILD ENABLER] Build version 4.2 of the oVirt Ansible roles for RHV 4.2
• BZ - 1488526 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-cluster-upgrade: stop_pinned_to_host_vms parameter doesn't work when VM has set two specific host and migration mode to not allow
• BZ - 1489454 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-image-template: swapped parameter template_disk_format and template_disk_interface
• BZ - 1489888 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: missing cpu_sockets variable
• BZ - 1489893 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: default values of cores and memory should be taken from template
• BZ - 1490838 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: unconfigurable timeouts
• BZ - 1490852 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: memory_guaranteed value in template don't allow user to specify lower value in memory
• BZ - 1490930 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: Cannot create VM with IDE disk
• BZ - 1490934 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: cannot add network interface to VM
• BZ - 1491004 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: Unclear error when user use non-existing template
• BZ - 1491010 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-vm-infra: When VM already exists in environment, role should left that VM in the same running state
• BZ - 1491244 - [ovirt-ansible-roles] ovirt-clusters: variable ksm and fence_enabled should have priority before their childs variables
• BZ - 1494156 - [TestOnly] Ensure ovirt-ansible-roles works with ansible 2.4.1
• BZ - 1494513 - ovirt-host package is unintentionally removed during firewalld configuration on the host
• BZ - 1519301 - Transaction failed when upgrading engine + ovirt-ansible-roles
• BZ - 1532083 - [RFE][DR] - Add validation task for var file in a disaster recovery scenario
• BZ - 1534978 - Build disaster recovery tool in RHV Beta 2

CVEs

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References

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