openATTIC (Posts by Ricardo Marques)

Conference Report: SALTCONF17

Ricardo Marques — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:51:14 GMT

Last week SALTCONF17 took place at Salt Lake City and I was one of the attendees of this great event which included 2 days of pre-conference training and 2 days of conference.

Salt Palace Convention Center was the chosen place for this conference that included 60 keynotes and breakout sessions with dozens of SaltStack use cases presented by SaltStack users and in-depth tech talks from the SaltStack developers and experts.

The SaltStack Certified Engineer exam was available to attendees that took the pre-conference training (learn more about the SSCE certification and exam here).

Backend-less development using ngMockE2E

Ricardo Marques — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:16:56 GMT

There are several reasons why you may need to mock HTTP requests. The most common are the unit tests, but imagine that you want to start developing a UI prototype before you have the backend implementation, in this case, ngMockE2E can help.

Here's what you should do in openATTIC if you want to mock an HTTP request to develop a UI prototype.

openATTIC 2.0.19 beta has been released

Ricardo Marques — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:04:32 GMT

openATTIC 2.0.19 is now available. This is a minor release, backwards compatible, where we deliver on our promise to make openATTIC easy to use, faster and with a great GUI.

On the frontend, we improved the feedback given to the user with a better error handling, useful toasty notifications, and loading spinners. We also added the DRBD support to the graphical user interface.

Since it's spring time, we also did a bit of house cleaning! On the backend side, we removed some obsolete modules such as peering, IPMI and mdraid. We also extracted the XML RPC daemon and its related API because they have been replaced by our REST API some time ago.

Besides that, the backend offered even more room for improvement and fixes like the creation of erasure coded Ceph pools.

We believe that documentation is as important as code. That's why we made many documentation improvements for this release. For instance, we restructured and improved the format of our CHANGELOG inspired by the Keep a Changelog project.

This release also contains two external contributions submitted by Uros Lates and David Díaz. Thank you, much appreciated!

We're happy to announce that this is also the last release built from our Mercurial repository, because we have moved to... GIT! We also updated the "developer" documentation section to reflect the mercurial to git workflow changes.

During this release we moved our hardware to a new infrastructure which delayed the announcement of this version, we apologize for the inconvenience.