Oct 2024 Connections v8 CR8 release

NFR Updates:

• IBM DB2 11.5.9
• WAS FP26
• Kubernetes 1.30
• containerd 1.7.19
• Calico 3.25.0
• HAProxy 3.0.3 (RedHat and AlmaLinux will continue to use the version installed by the OS package management tools)
• NGINX 1.26.1
• SUSE Linux preparation (not supported by this repo yet)

New / Improved playbooks:

• playbooks/hcl/setup-extended-user.yml to add extended user
• playbooks/hcl/setup-connections-ifix.yml to support installing multiple cFixes in a single run
• playbooks/third_party/ibm-http-server-create-cert.yml to regenerate IHS SSL certificate
• playbooks/third_party/kubernetes/renew-kubernetes-cert.yml to renew kubernetes self generated certificates

July 2024 CNX8 CR7 release

This release includes some miscellaneous fixes.
Also added a note for a workaround to address a HCL Docs thumbnail issue.

April 2024 CNX8 CR6 release

What's New:

• Install K8s 1.29
• containerd 1.6.26-3.1
• nginx install will now build with the headers-more-nginx-module to allow the removal of server information from header. Set build_nginx to false to install from package manager instead without the module.

Jan 2024 CNX8 CR5 release

What's New:

• Automate CNX7 spring dependencies update (KB0099835)
• Harbor OCI support to install / upgrade Helm charts from OCI registry in Harbor.
• Install K8s 1.28
• Support AlmaLinux9 as target Connections environment

The following is needed before installing/upgrading the Component Pack to v8.0 CR5.

• Product Requirement: WAS 8.5.5 is upgraded to Fixpack 24
• Automation Requirement: jmespath library needs to be installed on the host running the playbook

Note: The OpensSearch Stack chart is currently temporarily unavailable on Harbor. Please refrain from setting setup_opensearchstack to true in the inventory until the chart is accessible again.

Oct 2023 CNX8 CR4 release

What's New:

• RedHat 9 support
• OpenSearch Stack deployment support

Improvement:

• containerd 1.6.21
• Use SHA file (if present) to validate Connections install kit
• Incorporate changes in #275
• FIx (#286)
• FIx HA issue in ElasticSearch within a multiple data node setup

July 2023 CNX8 CR3 release

Default version updates:

• Kubernetes 1.27
• Helm 3.11.3
• Containerd 1.6.21
• WAS FP23
• SDI FP9

Helm template changes:

• Add force_regenerate to bootstrap.yml.j2
• Configurable persistentVolumePath for Huddo chart
• Ground work for OpenSearch Stack (not officially supported yet)

May 2023 cnx8cr2 release

Improvement:

• Updated OpenSearch pod scaling process to prevent unnecessary scaling.
• Updated Helm search process to avoid redundant fetches.
• Added kubectl rollout status checks after charts deployment.
• Sametime Integration support automation. See VARIABLES.md for the variables needed.
• Allow alternative location to download HAProxy via haproxy_url variable.

Change:

• Updated Huddo Boards deployment to pull from their images hosted in Quay.io.
• Upgrade Calico to 3.25.

Feb 2023 Release - HCL Connections v8 CR1

• Sample Inventories changes to install Connections v8 CR1
• Install WebSphere FP22 + PH49497 as default
• Install Kubernetes 1.25 as default and related changes for Connections v8 CR1 Component Pack
• Updated documentations
• misc fixes and improvements

Oct 2022 Release - HCL Connections v8 Support

This release provides support to install the Component Pack from the HCL Harbor online repository.

• Updated README.md and upgrade doc to install HCL Connections 8
• New playbooks setup-component-pack-complete-harbor.yml and setup-component-pack-complete-development-harbor.yml
• New code path to support deploying from Harbor.
• Sample inventories

Sept 2022 Release

This release covers:

New:
Docs 2.02 support