genesis Release v1.7.4

Bug Fixes

• Over the course of time, a few calls to sha1sum had been added,
  which would cause issues on Darwin, if you did not have the GNU
  coreutils installed. This has been resolved
• Fix a regression in genesis ci smoke-tests that would not
  allow any test name to be used, due to misplaced initialization.
• Fix a regression that was itself a fix of an imaginary
  regression. I'll just be over hear, deploying pipelines...

genesis Release v1.7.3

Improvements

• Track the site/env directory itself in Concourse pipeines
  (watch git for changes). This allows environments to be
  symlinked, in case you want to colo your alpha/beta environments
  and save on some cloud usage costs.

Bug Fixes

• Remove an errant cp of a temporary file to /tmp, which
  causes some issues with shared environments (i.e. jumpboxen)
  Sorry.
• Fix a stray call to ci_update, which was causing the upkeep
  job to never be created, and corrupted .ci.yml configurations.
  Thanks to @bodymindarts for find, researching and reporting this
  fix so quickly.

genesis Release v1.7.2

New Features

• Email Notification Support.
  Genesis Pipelines now support both Slack notification and Email
  notification (well, really, one or the other). Existing pipeline
  installations that use slack will continue to work without modification.

  To use the new email notifications, drop the meta.slack bits from your
  ci/settings.yml, and rpelace them with meta.email settings, that
  look like this:

  meta:
   email:
     to: [[email protected], [email protected], ...]
     from: [email protected]
     smtp:
       host: mailrelay.example.com
       port: 587
       username: concourse
       password: secret
  

Improvements

• Pipeline Upkeep is now optional.
  If you set meta.skip_upkeep to a non-empty true value, Genesis will
  now skip the stemcells upkeep job, and not include it in your pipeline.
  This can be helpful if you don't want to roll stemcells automatically.

• Support BOSH directors with the same URLs.
  Some environments like to re-use IP addresses. This change allows them
  to do so (assuming tagged workers), by changing the structure of
  ci/boshes.yml in a backwards-compatible way.

  Old (still supported) file format:

  auth:
    $url:
      username: ...
      password: ...
  
  aliases:
    target:
      $uuid: $url
  

  New format:

  $site-$env:
    auth:
      $url:
        username: ...
        password: ...
    aliases:
      target:
        $uuid: $url
  
  $othersite-$env: ...
  

• Vault user-id can now be overridden.
  Sometimes, the defaults are too guessable. If your Vault exists on an
  open network (like the Public Internet) you may want to generate a more
  secure 'secret' to use as the user-id. Now you can.

• Tagged Worker Pipeline Support.
  If you set meta.tagged to a true (non-empty) value, Genesis will tag
  each task with the site-env name, so that you can implement against
  globally-distributed concourse platforms, with lots of tagged workers.

Bug Fixes

• Handle -p in CI jobs. Now, Genesis fully supports
  separate pipelines for different subsets of environments.

genesis Release v1.7.1

Improvements

• The CI deployment pipelines generated by genesis now support waiting on BOSH to finish
  its active tasks before starting a deployment. This is highly useful for pipelines that
  deploy BOSH itself, so you do not interrupt active tasks by upgrading BOSH.

  To configure it, set the meta.pause_for_existing_bosh_tasks value to true in
  ci/settings.yml. If not set, this defaults to false. Additionally, to help guide
  genesis to target the right BOSH to query for active tasks, you will need to add additional
  aliases in your ci/boshes.yml, pointing the name of the BOSH director (from it's name.yml
  file) to the URL of the director:

    aliases:
      target:
        f635b1ba-5000-48e1-92c8-19471d20e0e4: https://10.10.10.10:25555
        vsphere-prod-bosh: https://10.10.10.10:25555
  

  The deployment task will wait up to 100 seconds for BOSH to finish current tasks.
  If tasks are stull running after 100 seconds, it will give up, refusing to deploy.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where genesis ci draft-messages was not working

genesis Release v1.7.0

The Documentation Release

This release overhauls the documentation system to provide help for not
only the commands, but the concepts around Genesis. Also improved
error handling messages for usage errors.

You can access these by typing genesis help for the help overview or
genesis help --topics for the list of all topics.

Other Noteworthy Improvements

• genesis ci commands now take a -p pipeline argument, for
  specifying alternate pipeline configurations, of separate
  environments.
• Added parent support to the CI pipeline, so that you can select which
  environment preceeds another environment instead of all preceeded by
  alpha->beta. See genesis help ci parent
• Added support for correct handling of stemcells in v2-style manifests.
  See genesis help use stemcell for more information

genesis Release v1.6.0

Improvements

• Add meta.type, meta.env, and meta.site to name.yml.
  Fixes #85
• We now use more finesse when dealing with BOSH directors:
  1. ICMP (ping) is no longer a requirement, we use curl with the
     --max-time argument
  2. Responses from BOSH will be cached in a temporary director,
     to be re-used by future jq-y goodness and avoid the extra
     round-trip to a potentially laggy BOSH director
  3. The code for handling BOSH director aliveness is now more
     in-line with the assertion-based architecture of Genesis.
  4. Timeouts for interacting with BOSH can be set via the new
     $DIRECTOR_TIMEOUT environment variable. Value is in
     seconds, and defaults to '3'.
• Checking / verification of stemcells and releases is now only
  done once, minimizing roundtrip interaction with both the BOSH
  director and (if in play) the Genesis Index.
• New command, genesis update to pull down the latest released
  version of Genesis from Github, and update your local copy.
  Fixes #86

Bug Fixes

• cmd ci commands now properly handle site and environment names
  that contain embedded (non-leadng) hyphens.
• Target bosh director earlier in pipeline based deployment.
  Fixes #91
• env_hook failure is now detected and handled properly in
  bosh-init deployments.
• Updating a release version will clear out sha1 and url files to
  force a genesis-index lookup on next deploy.

genesis Release v1.5.5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where genesis's automatic release/stemcell detection would fail sometimes
  due to slow connections to the BOSH director, or delays returning stemcell data.
• Fixed an issue with genesis ci stemcell not properly updating the url file.

genesis Release v1.5.4

Improvements

• Vastly improved handling of versions for non-bosh-init deployments. track still behaves
  as it used to, as do releases/stemcells with sha1 + url data specified. However, for latest,
  or x.y.z versions that do not use sha1/url data, Genesis now contacts the director to see
  if the desired versions are present. If not, it fetches the data from the Genesis index and
  uploads the release/stemcell, for you (but only during deployment). This results in a substantial
  reduction of Genesis Index calls for things like make manifest.
• Added warning/error message to genesis ci repipe when track is specified. It will introduce
  mostly undesirable behavior/race conditions with release + stemcell versions that break the
  intentions of only deploying known-tested versions from pre-production to production.
• Changed the default version for genesis add release and genesis use stemcell to latest,
  from track.

genesis Release v1.5.3

Improvements

• Increased help coverage
• When using genesis ci stemcell, the URL will now be updated from the
  stemcell source, as well as the version/sha1 values.
• Auto-lookup of director UUID is now disabled when the director cannot be
  contacted.
• genesis no longer requires the tree command. If it is not present,
  directory tree listings are simply not performed.
• genesis Concourse pipelines now use a genesis-specific Docker image.

Fixes

• Fixed some bad defaults and confusing templates related to genesis ci
• Beta environments now pick up site level changes properly
• The contents of boshes.yml is now redacted from the ci/pipeline.yml
  file when genesis ci repipe is run.
• Smoke tests configured via genesis ci smoke-test are now executed properly
  in the pipeline.
• genesis repipe now adds rebase: true when pushing updated configs back
  to your deployment repo, for greater success and less failure.

genesis Release v1.5.2

Improvements

• Releases and Stemcells can now be set to the version keyword
  track to pull latest information from the Genesis Index at
  deploy / manifest-generation time. The keyword latest has
  reverted to its original meaning of 'latest available on the
  BOSH director'

Bug Fixes

• set release command now queries the Genesis Index for URL /
  SHA1 information