Upgrades: Stats-out, 20.10.R4, and SD-WAN Portal

Release info

• MetroAE Version 4.5.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10
• Date of Release 06-July-2021

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Added support for upgrading inplace VSD after the installation of VSD is finished (METRO-235)
• Add support for Encrypted plugin variables for Metroae (METROAE-372)
• Added copy-sshid command automatic to copy ssh key to VSDs and VSTATs(ES) (METROAE-419)
• Added support for upgrading to 20.10.R4 (METROAE-406)
• Added support for upgrading SD-WAN Portal (METROAE-126)
• Added Support for Stats Out Major/Minor and Inplace Upgrade (METROAE-347)

Resolved Issues

• Added playbook and menu option to run security hardening on VSD after the VSD installation (METROAE-328)
• Added playbook for portal deployment, this is deployemnt in an already created VMs for portal (METROAE-273)
• Fixed NSG package Unzipped Twice (METROAE-415)
• Added ansible reset connection to fix VSC connectivity issues
• Fix openstack ssl connection error (METROAE-425)
• Add option to skip disable stats collection during VSTAT Upgrade (METROAE-430)
• For VSD upgrade check for 3 tar.gz files and not 3 files

Patch for pip setup errors

Another python package dependency changed underneath us causing the setup.sh script to fail.

Patch to fix phone home

The new phone-home capability was causing a silent failure when running metroae script from outside of the firewall. This patch fixes that problem.

Feature Release with bug fixes

Release info

• MetroAE Version 4.4.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10
• Date of Release 14-April-2021

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Fix up the image paths to root at /metroae_data/ when in the container
• Added support for bootstraping NSGv using NUH external interfaces
• Support multiple KVM bridges for NUH external interfaces
• Added multi cpu core support for NSGV (METROAE-309)
• Improve VSD security hardening to monitor service shutdown (METROAE-285)
• Add next-hop to VSC VPRN config (METROAE-319)
• Add VCIN SA upgrade support for Major Minor and Inplace Upgrade(METROAE-317)
• Adding support for sending usage back to MetroAE team
• Support for configuring NUH for stats-out proxy (METROAE-288)
• Add plugin examples and documentation to MetroAE (METROAE-354)
• Added support for instantiating and bootstrapping NSGv on AWS with VSP components deployed outside AWS (METROAE-355)

Resolved Issues

• Enhance several license file descriptions to include the file name
• Updated SDWAN portal to support 20.11 version
• Force rebuild after missing files (METROAE-298)
• Updated SDWAN portal unzip task to copy the container tar file to correct folder
• Fixed VSD deploy task to be idempotent (METROAE-304)
• Fixed sshpass quotes for passwords that has special characters (METROAE-312)
• Add option to override VSC config (METROAE-314)
• Allow portal install without VSTAT fqdn (METROAE-301)
• Fix VSR deploy errors (METROAE-310)
• Fix vsd-install script parameters (METROAE-347)
• Fix DNS dns_mgmt and dns_data to relax requirement of having specific length. (METROAE-315)
• Add vstat-health role to vstat_health playbook (METROAE-322)
• Hide log output in vsd-node-info (METROAE-332)
• Remove vstat-vsd-health role from vstat_health playbook (METROAE-322)
• Removed extra DEBUG line from nsgv-postdeploy (METROAE-334)
• Removed DEBUG tasks which are not working in upgrade shutdown playbooks ( METROAE-358)
• Allowing metroae to continue execution if the vsd_continue_on_failure is set to true (METROAE-324)
• Fix webfilter install required bridges issue (METROAE-371)

Patch for setup tools

One of the Python packages that is in the dependency chain for Ansible changed in a non-backwards-compatible way. This change caused failures in the setup script when using a clone of nuage-metroae. The Docker container version of MetroAE is immune from this problem. No new container will be built. The container version of MetroAE will continue to be v4.3.2.

• Release Contents
  • Resolved Issues
    • Updated and Reorder Pip requirements because of pip package version changes
    • Fix MetroAE setup error for setuptools install

Patch to update setup pip packages

The pip packages that MetroAE depends on were versioned, creating incompatibilities that caused setup to fail. This patch is only for clones of the repo, to allow the setup script to succeed. No MetroAE code was changed. No new Docker container is required. If you already have MetroAE setup, you won't need this patch.

Patch for container support and setup

This release contains two fixes:

• The rsync package has been added to yum requirements for setup and for building the container. The lack of rsync in the container caused certain operations using the container to fail.
• The self-update feature applied to the metroae script during container setup was failing.

Feature Release with Enhanced Support for 20.10

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

Support for deploying using Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) files

Add hosts and clusters folder support for vCenter (METROAE-1423)

Add hook location for custom external certificates (METROAE-1424)

Add support for IPv6 NUH install (METROAE-1416)

Add support for Stats-out VSD deployements.

Add example for CSV input spreadsheet (METROAE-1338)

Support Inplace upgrades for Geo-redundant VSD

Moved MetroAE container to Docker hub (METROAE-1430)

Support for downloading container image from Docker hub (METROAE-245)

Add NUH enhancements for VRRP, NTP and other NUH config (METROAE-1429)

Add support for updating MetroAE Script during Container setup and update. (METROAE-1427)

Add support for configuring only IPV6 environment in vcenter. (METROAE-276)

Make MetroAE python scripts Python3 compatible (METROAE-1418)

Resolved Issues

Add support for IPv6 NUH install (METROAE-1416)

Add NUH Deploy changes for license install prior to Config (METROAE-1422)

Allow VSC to be specified without system ip (METROAE-1413)

Added Serial=1 to prevent on VSD lockout of iptables during VSC's upgrade

Fixed static route gateway issue in VNSUTIL

Fixed issue with SDWAN Portal configuration (METROAE-244)

Fixed the issue with VSD license with better error message when it expires (METROAE-1432)

Add retries to yum update in case there are connection issues with repos

Increased the retries for ejabberd connected users

Skip testing for bootstrap complete when using activation link method

20.10.R1 Support

Adding conditional execution to allow ES upgrade from 6.0.3 to pass

NUH Features

This feature release was produced to address new support for NUH configuration. No other content has been added.

• Feature Enhancements
  • Add NUH enhancements for VRRP, NTP and other NUH config (METROAE-1429)