{"id":1472,"date":"2010-06-14T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:08:16","slug":"recent_mcollective_releases_and_roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2010\/06\/14\/recent_mcollective_releases_and_roadmap.php","title":{"rendered":"Recent MCollective releases and roadmap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had two successive <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/\">Marionette Collective<\/a> releases recently, I was hoping to have one big one but I was waiting for the Stomp maintainers to do a release and it was taking a while.<\/p>\n<p>These two releases are both major feature releases covering major feature sets.  See lower down for a breakdown of it all.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re nearing feature completeness for the <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/\">SimpleRPC<\/a> layer as I am adding a number of features of interest to Enterprise and Large users especially around security and web UIs.  <\/p>\n<p>Once we&#8217;re at the end of this cycle I&#8217;ll do a 1.0.0 release and then from there move onto the next major feature cycle.  The next cycle will focus on queuing long running tasks, background scheduling, future scheduling of tasks and a lot of related work.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mcollective-users\/msg\/35edb9a3fbca3de0\">posted some detail<\/a> about these plans to the list recently.<\/p>\n<p>Over the new few days or weeks I&#8217;ll do a number of Screencasts exploring some of these new features in depth, for now the list of what&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<h2>Security<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/reference\/plugins\/security_ssl.html\">SSL based security system<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/authorization.html\">Authorization system<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2010\/04\/11\/authorization_plugins_for_mcollective_simplerpc.php\">blog post<\/a>] and sample plugins, allowing for fine grained control over every request<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Connectivity<\/h2>\n<p>We can use Ruby Gem Stomp 1.1.6 which brings a lot of enhancements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/reference\/plugins\/connector_stomp.html\">Connection pools for failover<\/a> between multiple ActiveMQs<\/li>\n<li>Lots of tunables about the connection pools such as retry frequencies etc<\/li>\n<li>SSL TLS between node and ActiveMQ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Writing Web and Dynamic UIs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/ddl.html\">DDL that describes agents<\/a>, inputs and outputs:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Creates auto generated documentation<\/li>\n<li>Can be used to auto generate user interfaces<\/li>\n<li>The client library will only make requests that validate against the DDL<\/li>\n<li>In future input validations will move into the DDL and will be done automatically for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Web UI&#8217;s can <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/clients.html#doing_your_own_discovery\">bypass or do their own discovery<\/a> and use the DDL to auto generate user interfaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Usability<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/clients.html#sending_simplerpc_requests_without_discovery_and_blocking\">Fire-and-Forget<\/a> style requests, for when you just want something done but do not care about results, these requests are very quick as they do not do any discovery.<\/li>\n<li>Agents can now be reloaded without restarting the daemon<\/li>\n<li>A new <em>mc-inventory<\/em> tool that can be used to view facts, agents and classes for a node<\/li>\n<li>Many UI enhancements to the CLI tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had two successive Marionette Collective releases recently, I was hoping to have one big one but I was waiting for the Stomp maintainers to do a release and it was taking a while. These two releases are both major feature releases covering major feature sets. See lower down for a breakdown of it all. 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