Pre-release 7.0.0-pre1

BREAKING CHANGES

• simp kv:
  • Updated the simp kv command suite to work with simp-simpkv
    Puppet module version >= 0.8.0.
    • simp-simpkv 0.8.0 changed how global keys are accessed.
    • Only impacts sites that explicitly enabled the experimental
      simpkv capability.

Changed

• simp config:
  • The LOCAL sssd domain is no longer needed for sssd to start. The
    sssd::domains value is now only set if the SIMP server is the LDAP server.
  • Updated LDAP configuration to use 389ds, when the SIMP server is the LDAP
    is on EL>7.
    • Configures the LDAP server to be the SIMP 389ds accounts instance
    • Configures the LDAP client to communicate with the 389ds server.
  • Moved the mechanism to set the SIMP server's grub password to Puppet.
    • The password is now set via simp_grub::password instead of
      grub::password.
  • Configure simp_options::ntp::servers instead of deprecated
    simp_options::ntpd::servers.
  • Bumped .gemspec dependencies to mitigate CVE-2020-8130 and
    CVE-2017-8418

Added

• simp config:
  • Added option to configure a local user with ssh and sudo privileges
    to prevent server lockout, when SIMP is not installed from ISO.
    • Especially important for cloud instances when the user does not have
      console access.
    • Specified local user will be created if not already present.
    • If the specified local user exists and has authorized ssh keys, the keys
      will be copied to /etc/ssh/local_keys/, the default location of local user
      ssh authorized key files in SIMP.
      IMPORTANT: Any future updates to a users's ssh authorized key list must
      be made to the user's file in /etc/ssh/local_keys/.
  • Set the NTP server defaults for ntpd and chronyd.
    simp_options::ntp::servers is intended to be the default NTP server
    settings for a SIMP system, regardless of whether it uses ntpd or
    chronyd. However, the chrony module does not use simp_options,
    because it is not a SIMP-maintained module. To work around this,
    simp config was updated to set chrony::servers to an alias of
    simp_options::ntp::servers in hieradata.

Fixed

• simp config:
  • Fixed a bug in which running simp config multiple times could result in
    multiple /etc/hosts entries for the puppetserver.
  • Check for both ntpd and chronyd settings when determining the OS defaults
    for simp_options::ntp::server, not just ntpd settings.

Removed

• simp CLI:
  • Dropped support for Puppet 5
  • Removed support for EL6