hcp-ansible/CHANGELOG.md

v0.5.0 (2024-08-17)

Feat

• add global internal TLS option, make externally_managed_certs work
• playbooks revamp
• organise group_vars
• add renewal process for leaf CA
• add leaf certificate genearation
• tests: add molecule scenario for testing CA
• roles: add hashistack_ca role to manage clusters certificates
• playbooks: use newly created hashistack role to load and merge variables
• hashistack: move variable loading to specific role
• nomad: remove cni installation option from nomad role, as it has been moved to its own role
• cni: add specialized role ton install cni plugins
• vault: adjust variable merging behaviour for allowing multiple tcp and unix socket listeners
• vault: adjust default values for allowing multiple tcp and unix socket listeners
• roles: integrate nomad role to hashistack collection
• roles: integrate consul role to hashistack collection
• roles: integrate vault role to hashistack collection
• deployment: Implement new structure for deploying components

Fix

• remove failure message as variable is undefined if directory does not exist
• empty tests for cni role for now
• renew should cascade
• use new hashistack role on preflight playbook
• add meta file for cni role
• nomad: adjust variable merging for nomad
• consul: merge join configuration variable
• add standalone consul_agents gorup, and add nomad_clients to the common group
• force load all variables in group_vars uring the variable loading process to make them top priority over every role variables
• update various variables and bring some of them back out of globals.yml
• update preflight checks
• do not try to install docker during bootstrap, as it will depend on which hosts are docker-enabled
• add conventional tags to galaxy.yml file
• consul_primary_datacenter defaults to consul_datacenter for ease of configuration in single cluster mode, remove some useless comments
• generate proper 32 bytes base 64 random strings for gossip encryption for both nomad and consul
• more deployment host exclusion
• exclude deployment host from all playbooks where it does not need to be included (and can cause issues)
• do not use run_once instructions as it is wildly unreliable
• typo in credentials template preventing from generating the initial credential file

0.4.0 (2024-07-10)

Feat

• add barebone driver options for nomad (not fully working)
• add docs on generating credentials
• nomad: move variables to globals.yml, adjust bootstrap module for nomad ACLs
• add nomad deployment options, variables, and playbooks
• use new vault and consul roles, and only allow for host deployment after docker support drop
• add global variables for nomad deployment

Fix

• implement longer wait to stabilize consul cluster before bootstrapping to avoid timeout errors

0.3.0 (2024-05-13)

Feat

• generate_credentials: generate new accesor ids and vault token credentials
• vault: enable consul service registration automatically if consul is also enabled

0.2.0 (2024-05-05)

Feat

• consul: allow enabling consul internal TLS

Fix

• globals: restore default globals.yml file, move changes to test directory
• vault/consul: ensure idempotence of extra_volumes list to avoid restarting on each run due to slightly different service files

0.1.0 (2024-05-03)

Feat

• add new way of loading vars following move to misc task group
• consul: utilize the new pre-generated credentials on consul deployment
• update vault deployment to utilize the new variable loading solution
• split load_vars play into multiple specific plays
• generate credentials.yml from template
• add playbook to generate credentials before deploying
• TLS: add tls features to vault and trust hosts store on containers
• certs: generate_certs playbook now generate internal CA for vault
• haproxy: add a lot to haproxy, and generate_certs playbook + docs
• proxy: add consul agents to proxies and register haproxy service to consul is consul is enabled
• consul: start configuring and deploying agents
• deploy: add haproxy deployment, integrate with consul
• consul: polish initial deployment of consul, and agent token generation
• consul: start creation of agents token, merge it with primary config if already present
• inventory: add haproxy nodes to test and inventory
• core: change namespace of collection
• docs: start writing the architecture guide
• vault: wrote some more documentation on using the tool
• consul: first working version of acl_bootstrap module
• consul: start on consul_acl_bootstrap module
• consul: make ACL default to enabled with default policy to deny
• vault: added version variables for vault
• consul: add initial simple consul cluster
• vault: break things trying to fix vault unseal not returning anything on mulitple retries
• docs: add docstrings to vault_init module and typos in documentation pages
• license: add license to galaxy.yml
• vars: add logging configuration for vault
• vault/docs/license: added plugin ability to vault, update documentation and license
• vault: start working on configuration merging to allow customization
• vault: variabilize seal_configuration
• docs: add collection install documentation to quick-start
• docs: started working on documentation for the collection
• preflight: fix config directory checks
• preflight: add checks to ensure config directories are present before running
• vars: variable loading now mostly works for groups and hosts
• vars: add host specific vars inclusion
• vars: load group vars dynamically if files exist
• vars: add check to load global vars file before running deployment
• variables: fix listener not passing correct syntax
• vars: add more customization for vault deployment
• readme: add WIP warning
• variables: start polishing variables for customization
• playbook: vault deployment is smooth-ish, unseals and initialize cluster as needed
• modules: added unseal module
• tests: move molecule tests to extensions directory for it to work properly
• module: vault operator init module somewhat working
• module: some more on vault init
• modules: try catch on import
• module: try catch on importing hvac
• test: add single node molecule scenario for testing modules
• vault: fix , in unseal module
• vault: start of unseal module, and start of default variables
• preflight: consolidate preflight playbook
• roles: add hashicorp roles as submodules
• roles: remove roles before adding submodules
• variables: add some formatting to globals.yml, remove unused roles
• tests: test playbboks are played correctly on molecule scenarios
• tests: draft for molecule collection testing
• commit collection skeleton

Fix

• adjust galaxy version for commitizen
• vault extra files list not being idempotent between runs
• various fixes to accomodate the new pre-generated credentials
• tests: update converge and prepare playbook for test suite
• various small issues on generate playbooks
• various inconsistencies and idempotence issues related to variable computing
• syntax: typo in docs