It's time once again for OpenNMS On the Horizon.
Last week was DevJam, so keep that in mind when you get excited about some of the projects you see. ;)
Plenty of these are proof-of-concept work that may or may not make it into a release.
Anayway, since last time, we worked on Horizon Stream (Minion RPC and gateway, operator improvements, hashicorp vault support, device UI and events), documentation (quick start guide, grafana, flows), OpenTelemetry, VNC integration, Sonar (CI workflow, bug fixes), Enlinkd scheduling and OSPF area support, and hashicorp vault SCV integration (including REST).
Github Project Updates
Internals, APIs, and Documentation
- DJ continued his work on moving from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry
- Łukasz did more work on Minion RPC in Horizon Stream
- Arthur, Łukasz, and Mark continued the work on the Minion gateway in Stream
- Thomas worked on a proof-of-concept VNC integration
- Dmitri started to add support to OPA for adding poller config
- Dustin did more work on twin API filter improvements
- I worked on cleaning up our Sonar CI workflows(s)
- Maxim, Benjamin Janssens, Ivan, Kim, and I worked on fixing issues detected by Sonar
- Antonio continued his work on improving Enlinkd collection scheduling
- Dustin and Freddy worked on adding support for flow processing to the Minion
- Gerald did more work on operator workflow with Skaffold/Tilt in Stream
- Jerry switched a bunch of Stream's configs to use hashicorp vault storage
- Chandra worked on hashicorp vault support in SCV
- I fixed a bug in our CircleCI integration test "changed project" detection that could cause it to build more than it needed to
- Bonnie continued to work on improving the Quick Start Guide
- Mark Mahacek worked on updated Grafana documentation
- Alberto worked on adding OSPF area support to Enlinkd
- Dino updated flow documentation
Web, REST, UI, and Helm
- Chinh Le continued his work on the device UI and event display in Horizon Stream
- Alex worked on a REST endpoint for SCV and vault config
Contributors
Thanks to the following contributors for committing changes since last OOH:
- Dustin Frisch
- Antonio Russo
- Łukasz Dywicki
- Mark Frazier
- Benjamin Reed
- Chinh Le
- Freddy Chu
- Chandra Gorantla
- Arthur Naseef
- Alberto Ramos
- Maxim Brener
- DJ Gregor
- Christian Pape
- Benjamin Janssens
- Alex May
- Dmitri Herdt
- Ivan Trechekas
- Thomas Bigger
- Jerry Beuree
- Dino Yancey
- Mark Mahacek
- Bonnie Robinson
- Gerald Humphries
- Emily Marsh
Coming Soon: JIRA Migration
We will be migrating our JIRA issue-tracker from a self-hosted version to Atlassian's cloud version.
I don't have a timeline for this yet, but expect it in the coming months.
If you currently have an account at the OpenNMS issue tracker your account should already be migrated to JIRA Cloud, but you will need to perform a password reset with the "Can't log in?" link before you can log in.
Releases and Roadmap
September 2022 Releases - Horizon 30.0.3, Meridians 2022.1.7, 2021.1.19, 2020.1.27, 2019.1.38
In September, we released updates to all OpenNMS Meridian versions under active support, as well as Horizon 30.0.3.
Meridian Stable Updates
Meridians 2019.1.38, 2020.1.27 , 2021.1.19 , and 2022.1.7 contains a couple of bug fixes.
For a list of changes, see the release notes:
Horizon 30.0.3
Release 30.0.3 contains quite a few bug fixes as well as number of small features and security fixes.
For a high-level overview of what has changed in Horizon 30, see What’s New in OpenNMS Horizon 30.
For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.
The codename for Horizon 30.0.3 is Chipmunk.
OpenNMS Helm 8.0.1
Helm 8.0.1 is primarily a bugfix release.
It contains a number of small fixes and enhancements to improve querying of nodes and interfaces.
It also contains a large number of node dependency updates.
Please note that Helm is still targeted to Grafana 8.
Work is underway to update to support Grafana 9.
Upcoming September Releases
OpenNMS is on a monthly release schedule, with releases happening on the second Wednesday of the month.
The next OpenNMS release day is October 12th, 2022.
We currently expect updates to Horizon 30.
Next Horizon: 31 (Q4 2022)
The next major Horizon release will be Horizon 31.
It will contain a number of improvements, including:
- a refactoring of flow APIs including support for some flow hooks in the plugin API (plugin API 1.1.0+)
- major improvements and refactoring in Enlinkd's bridge topology mapping and collection scheduling
- more stuff, which I haven't had a chance to go back and enumerate yet, watch this space :D
Next Meridian: 2023 (Q1 2023)
Meridian 2023 is still reasonably early in its development cycle, but you can expect it to contain, at the very least, the work that's going into Horizon 30.
Disclaimer
Note that this is just based on current plans; dates, features, and releases can change or slip depending on how development goes.
The statements contained herein may contain certain forward-looking statements relating to The OpenNMS Group that are based on the beliefs of the Group’s management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Group’s management. These forward-looking statements are, by their nature, subject to significant risks and uncertainties.
...We apologize for the excessive disclaimers. Those responsible have been sacked.
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We apologise again for the fault in the disclaimers. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Calendar of Events
Grace Hopper Celebration - Orlando, FL - September 20th through 23rd
In addition to our involvement in Open Source Day, Veena Kannan will be presenting a virtual lightning talk at the Grace Hopper Conference titled "Open Source 101 – Myth Buster Edition" at the Grace Hopper Celebration.
Her talk will be Thursday the 22nd, at 11:00am.
All Things Open - Raleigh, NC - October 30th through November 2nd, 2022
All Things Open is local to our headquarters, and is a truly fantastic event.
We love it so much, we will be the exclusive live stream sponsor. 😉
We'll also have a booth in the exhibition hall.
A bunch of OpenNMS folks will be attending and/or helping out in the booth, so please be sure to say hi!
Open Source Monitoring Conference - Nuremberg, Germany - November 14th through 16th
The OpenNMS Group is a gold sponsor of OSMC this year, and will have a booth as well.
Stop by and say hello!
Until Next Time…
If there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future OOH, or you just have a comment or criticism you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.
- Ben
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