Maintenance Release for Ansible EOL versions

This release fixes issue #159

Maintenance Release for Ansible EOL versions

• Updating update_hp_firmware.py from master

Maintenance Release for Ansible EOL versions

• Remove NTP packages which conflict with ansible hardening

Maintenance Release for Ansible EOL versions

• Disable configure-spice-console.yml as it is no longer compatible with upstream

Maintenance Release - Ansible EOL

This is maintenance release to EOL Ansible 2.2
Next releases, 2.x, will only support Ansible 2.7 and higher

Changes:

• Update HP firmware to 2.64
• Update HP Broadcom NICs to firmware 2.22.3
• Update HP Intel NICs to firmware 1.16.0
• Adding fio/sysbench benchmark script
• Rename configure-apt.yml to configure-packagemanager.yml while adding unattended upgrade support

Halloween-2018

Changes:

• Update HP firmware to 2.60 to address L1TF vulnerability
• Update HP SAS Controller firmware to 6.6.0
• Update HP Broadcom NICs to firmware 2.20.7
• Limiting playbook execution to mainly utility containers
• Correctly implementing sysfs changes for cpuidle kernel flags

Meltdown

Changes:

• General HP firmware updates of iLO, RAID and NIC components
• The update-hp-firmware.yml playbook introduced a new override firmware_use_meltdown to either deploy the last HP BIOS excluding the Meltdown/Spectre mitigation, By default it's set to false to allow a controlled upgrade
• Introduced rebuild-ssh-known-hosts.yml which allows for a full known hosts rebuild on the deployment node after leapfrog upgrades which rebuild all containers
• install-holland-db-backup.yml play fixed for Ansible 1.9 versions
• rebuild-rabbitmq-container.sh updated to prefer rpc-maas standalone deploys
• Fixed pccommon.sh for Pike
• Adding some OPS automation/check scripts neutron_router.py, image_check.py, fix-backing-image.py, healthcheck.py

HP firmware update via CDN

The HP firmware update utility is now using a Rackspace CDN to pull files.
Additionally the openrc_insecure flag is now passed for all openstack clients in order to better support insecure provisioned APIs

ssacli it is

The HP MCP tools beginning version 10 renamed hpssacli to ssacli while retaining the same functionality and output format.
This release pins the version to MCP version 10.60 to make it easier to synchronize with other modules like rpc-maas

New Dawn

Initial release of the openstack-ops module as a stand alone ansible module.
Standalone modules allow for run queue and overall better optimization over ansible galaxy style roles