Enhancements¶

This section outlines new features and enhancements introduced in the Cluster release 6.16.0.

StackLight components upgrade
StackLight notifications to Microsoft Teams
StackLight notifications to ServiceNow
StackLight log collection optimization
Ceph default configuration options
Ceph KaaSCephCluster enhancements
Multinetwork configuration for Ceph
TLS for Ceph public endpoints
Ceph RBD mirroring

StackLight components upgrade¶

Upgraded PostgreSQL from version 12 to 13
Updated Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Metricbeat from version 7.6.1 to 7.10.2

StackLight notifications to Microsoft Teams¶

Implemented the capability to enable Alertmanager to send notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel.

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StackLight configuration parameters

StackLight notifications to ServiceNow¶

Implemented the capability to enable Alertmanager to send notifications to ServiceNow. Also added the ServiceNowAuthFailure alert that will raise in case of failure to authenticate to ServiceNow.

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StackLight configuration parameters

StackLight log collection optimization¶

Improved the log collection mechanism by optimizing the existing and adding new log parsers for multiple Container Cloud components.

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StackLight configuration parameters: Logging

Ceph default configuration options¶

Enhanced Ceph Controller to automatically specify default configuration options for each Ceph cluster during the Ceph deployment.

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Ceph KaaSCephCluster enhancements¶

Implemented the following Ceph enhancements in the KaaSCephCluster CR:

Added the capability to specify the rgw role using the roles parameter
Added the following parameters:
- rookConfig to override the Ceph configuration options
- useAsFullName to enable the Ceph block pool to use only the name value as a name
- targetSizeRatio to specify the expected consumption of the Ceph cluster total capacity
- SSLCert to use a custom TLS certificate to access the Ceph RGW endpoint
- nodeGroups to easily define specifications for multiple Ceph nodes using lists, grouped by node lists or node labels
- clients to specify the Ceph clients and their capabilities