1.0.5 - March 15, 2021

• Overall

  • There is a new document discussing support of various
    Cloud providers

• Monitoring

  • [FEATURE] The monitoring/bin/deploy_dashboards.sh script now accepts a
    file or directory argument to deploy user-provided dashboards
  • [FEATURE] A new $USER_DIR/monitoring/dashboards directory is now
    supported to supply user-provided dashboards at deployment time
  • [FEATURE] The new CloudWatch sample provides
    instructions on configuring the CloudWatch agent to scrape metrics
    from SAS Viya components
  • [FEATURE] The browser-accessible URL for Grafana is now included in
    the output of monitoring/bin/deploy_monitoring_cluster.sh (including
    if ingress is configured)
  • [CHANGE] Several component versions have been upgraded
    • Prometheus:
      v2.23.0 -> v2.24.0
    • Grafana:
      7.3.6 -> 7.4.1
    • Prometheus Operator:
      0.44.1 -> 0.45.0
    • kube-prometheus-stack:
      12.8.0 -> 13.7.2
  • [CHANGE] The following optional Grafana plugins are no longer installed by default:
    • grafana-piechart-panel
    • grafana-clock-panel
    • camptocamp-prometheus-alertmanager-datasource
    • flant-statusmap-panel
    • btplc-status-dot-panel
  • [CHANGE] cert-manager resources
    now use 'v1' to align with their use in SAS Viya 4.x

• Logging

  • [FEATURE] The browser-accessible URL for Kibana included in the output
    of logging/bin/deploy_logging_open.sh now takes into account ingress
    configuration
  • [EXPERIMENTAL] A new experimental script logging/bin/getlogs.sh
    allows exporting logs to CSV format Documentation
  • [FIX] The logging/bin/change_internal_password.sh script no longer
    outputs passwords as debug messages

1.0.4 - February 15, 2021

• Overall

  • Improved documentation for overall deployment process
  • Improved documentation related to use of TLS
  • Removed references to TLS in ingress sample (samples/ingress); TLS enabled ingress shown in TLS sample (samples/tls)

• Monitoring

  • [FIX] ENABLE_TLS should set proper port and targetport for v4m-prometheus service
  • [FIX] Remove memory limit on kube-state-metrics
  • [FIX] Kubernetes Cluster Dashboard disk usage not working on EKS

• Logging

  • Moved Helm chart from deprecated stable/fluent-bit to fluent/fluent-bit
  • Fluent Bit version upgraded from 1.5.4 to 1.6.10

1.0.3 - January 15, 2021

• Overall

  • Significantly improved documentation for deployment customization
  • KEEP_TMP_DIR option added to keep the temporary working directory
    around for troublshooting purposes
  • There is now an early check for kubectl cluster admin capabilities

• Monitoring

  • Component versions upgraded
    • Helm Chart: 11.1.3->12.8.0
    • Prometheus Operator: 0.43.2->0.44.1
    • Prometheus: v2.22.2-> v2.23.0
    • Grafana: 7.3.1->7.3.6
  • The application filter on the SAS Java Services dashboard is now sorted
  • The Perf/Node Utilization dashboard now uses node names instead of IP
    addresses to identify nodes

• Logging

  • Moved Helm chart from deprecated stable/elasticsearch-exporter to
    prometheus-community/elasticsearch-exporter
  • Improved handling of log message fragment created due to excessively long
    log messages (>16KB)
  • FIX: Eliminated hard-coded namespace in change_internal_password.sh script

1.0.2 - December 15, 2020

• Fixed breaking script error in TLS
• Minor tweaks to SAS Java Services and Perf/Node Utilitzation dashboards

1.0.1 - December 14, 2020

• Overall
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] - The default passwords for both Grafana and Kibana
    are now randomly generated by default. The generated password is logged
    during the initial deployment. It is possible to explicitly set each
    password via environment variables or user.env files.
  • TLS support has been enhanced with improved logging and more accurate
    checking of when cert-manager is required
  • Helm 2.x has reached end-of-life and support for it has been removed
• Monitoring
  • The KubeHpaMaxedOut alert has been modified to only trigger if the
    max replicas is > 1
• Logging
  • Refactored deployment/removal scripting internals
  • Added new dashboards & visualizations to Kibana
  • Added support for non-standard Docker root

1.0.0 - November 17, 2020

This is the first public release.

• Overall

  • Minor edits and cleanup to README files and sample user response files

• Monitoring

  • Grafana version bumped to 7.3.1
  • Prometheus Operator version bumped to 0.43.2
  • Prometheus version bumped to 2.22.2
  • Prometheus Pushgateway version bumped to 1.3.0

0.1.3 - November 11, 2020

• Overall

  • Helm 2.x has reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. Helm 3.x is now required.
  • Support added for the SAS Viya Workload Node Placement
    • By default, monitoring and logging pods are deployed to untainted nodes
    • A new flag, NODE_PLACEMENT_ENABLE supports deploying pods to appropriate
      workload node placement nodes

• Monitoring

  • Several helm charts have moved from stable to prometheus-community.
  • The prometheus-operator helm chart has been deprecated and moved to kube-prometheus-stack.
  • SAS Java and Go ServiceMonitors converted to PodMonitors to properly support merged services

• Logging

  • Support for SAS Viya move to Crunchy Data 4.5
  • Support for changing retention period of log messages
  • Node anti-affinity for Elasticsearch replicas
  • Support for multi-role Elasticsearch nodes (including sample
    to demonstrate usage)
  • Additional documentation on using TLS
  • Removed traces of support for ODFE "demo" security configuration
  • Alternate monitoring solution(proof-of-concept): Fluent Bit ==> Azure Monitor (Log Analytics workspace)

0.1.2 - October 20, 2020

• CHANGELOG
• Monitoring
  • Support for sas-elasticsearch metric collection
  • Refreshed Istio dashboard collection
  • Samples refactored out of monitoring/logging directories into a top-level
    samples directory. Additionally, each subdirectory is structured to be
    compatible with USER_DIR customizations.
  • A new sample, generic-base has been created as
    a template for customization. It contains a full set of user response files
    available to customize.
  • Documentation for the samples has been improved
• Logging
  • Kubernetes events are now stored in the index associated with the namespace
    of the source of the event instead of a global (cluster) index
  • Multiple fixes to RBAC scripts

0.1.1 - September 22, 2020

• Adjust to breaking Helm 3.3.2 change(Issue #1)
• Refactored samples into a top-level samples directory
• Force in-cluster TLS for logging (Issue #2)

0.1.0 - September 16, 2020

• Initial early access release
• See README files for details