Status Updates

Weekly status updates are published here.

12 April 2019

This week the Stratos team has been...

Presenting Stratos v2.4 features to the community in the latest project update
Working towards phase two of the extension project.
Finishing off the remove roles from cf user feature.
Finishing off adding an optional 'connect' step to the register endpoint stepper.
Reviewing and shepherding PRs into master, minor bug fixes.

5 April 2019

This week the Stratos team have mostly been ...

Improving e2e reliability and merging existing PRs.
Improving the create/deploy app flow. Users will now only be presented with a single button to start the flow. Their first step is to decide where the source for the app will come from (github, gitlab, locally, etc) or to create without source.
Removing the endpoints page when there's no persistent storage. This is now on par with the home/favourites page.
Adding an option that will allow the user to stay signed in to the console (if option is checked and the page remains visible).
Starting working towards the ability to remove all roles from a cf user with a single click (after confirmation).
Starting working towards an optional 'connect' step when registering an endpoint.
Fixed a few minor trivial bugs

22 March 2019

This week:

Work continues to complete the addition of support for Cloud Foundry User Provided Services. This is almost done. A few small issues and corner-cases cropped up which we have been working on.
Added support for slide-in help content and wired this into the endpoint connection dialog
We continued to refine the visual presentation of endpoints within Stratos

15 March 2019

This week:

Enhancing the endpoint registration view to use a tile selector
Updating our docs on our use cases and requirements for the Cloud Foundry V3 API

8 March 2019

This week:

Added a card view to the endpoints view
Continued to refine the support for User Provided Service Instances
Working on support to allow list views to show different entity types in the same list
Ensured features requiring persistence database are not enabled when using SQLite

1 March 2019

This week:

Updated the front-end code to use Angular 7 (in review)
Continued to add support for User Provided Service Instances
Reviewed, tweaked and merged our first phase of work on improving extensions support

22 February 2019

This week:

The user invite feature has been reviewed and merged
Front-end code restructuring to support next phase of extensions work
Pre-work for update to Angular 7
Add support for User Provided Services
Updates to our documentation on our needs for the Cloud Foundry V3 API

Important:

Hello All - Two CVEs in Stratos were recently discovered - both are fixed in 2.3.0 - so we encourage you to update to that latest version to address these issues. Both relate to the session cookie:

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2019-3783/ https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2019-3784/

Deployment Survey

We want to understand more about how everyone is deploying Stratos - so we can better support the most used deployment scenarios and (possibly) remove some of the deployment mechanisms that aren’t being used - we’ve got a quick survey we’d love it if you could fill out: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MLXDMKG

15 February 2019

This week:

2.3.0 was Released!
The user Favourites feature has been reviewed and merged
We continue to fix and merge many of the outstanding PRs around User Favourites and Scalability
We spent half a day reviewing our next steps to re-structure the front-end code as part of our work towards the next phase of extensibility.
We continue to improve the suite of automated deployment tests that run continuosuly

8 February 2019

Release 2.3.0 is all ready to go and we will publish this on Monday.

Otherwise, we've been working on:

Finishing a first version of the User Favourites feature
Finishing a first version of the User Invitation feature
Investigating possible security issue: cloudfoundry#3385
Updates to our extensions approach

1 February 2019

We are looking to release 2.3.0 next week having completed testing.

Work has otherwise continued on four tracks:

Closing out existing PRs
Finishing a first version of the User Favourites feature
Finishing a first version of the User Invitation feature
Improving test automation

25 January 2019

This week:

Published a release candidate for Stratos 2.3.0 which we continue to test
Worked to update a few outstanding PRs - we are aiming to close out some of the remaining PRs this sprint, ahead of a re-org of our front-end code to better support extensions to Stratos in the future
Continued to refine the User Favourites feature
Worked to add the ability to invite a user into a Cloud Foundry organisation
Continued to improve the reliability of automated deployment tests in Jenkins

18 January 2019

We created a test release of 2.3.0 and identified a number of issues to be resolved for release.

The remainder of this week was spent fixing the issues identified.

A 2.3.0 Release Candidate will be published later today or on Monday of next week.

We hope to finish testing and publish the 2.3.0 release next week.

The 2.3.0 Change Log has been updated and is available here

11 January 2019

Happy New Year!

The focus of the week was in preparing 2.3.0 release:

We reviewed, updated and merged over 20 outstanding PRs that were targeted at 2.3.0 release
We’ve made some improvements to our Helm chart to the external service configuration
We’ve tweaked our release process and updated and improved our Concourse release pipelines
Performed initial testing of 2.3.0 build

We expect to create a Release Candidate next for 2.3.0 so QA can kick the tyres as well.

We’re also looking at the roadmap for this year and planning our releases throughout 2019.

21st December 2018

Rounding off our year, here's some highlights from the last few weeks.

User Favourites - Great progress has been made and we're almost ready to merge to master.
Page Tabs & Side Nav Update - The horizontal tabs shown in sections such as Application, Cloud Foundry, Organisation, etc have found a smart new home in a side nav. For screenshots see PR #3289

PRs:

Add a routes list to the CF tabs, Routes Refactor & Route Bug Fixes (#3292)
Add deployment info for apps deployed via docker & fix info for local/archive apps (#3291)
Improve focus & tabbing (#3288)
Application Env Var fix & improvements (#3286)
Fix exception when navigating away from the first deploy app step (#3277)
Add service plan tab to service pages (#3275)
List Multifilter Improvements (don't show cloud foundry selector if there's only one connected) (#3270)
Update side nav logo with light version of new logo (#2921)
Hide app vars tab if user is not a space developer (#3247)
Show app chip list for space routes list bound apps (#3041)

Community PRs:

Fixes Async Service Provisioning Bug (#3090) (merged)
[autoscaler] add autoscaler tab in app page (#3266)

7th December 2018

The team are continuing to tackle some of the smaller issues form the backlog as well as the following two features:

User Favorites - Allowing users to favorite Apps, Orgs, Spaces etc and to provide quick access to these items.
Inviting Users - Support for inviting users to a Cloud Foundry system via email and to grant appropriate rights to an Org/Space

PRs:

Reduce size of Docker All-in-one image #3261
Tidy up CLI login info #3269
Add service provider name to marketplace service card #3268
Add link to dashboard in service instance table #3267
Add Org and Space status bar to Org/Space Cards #3265
Helm port configuration improvements and unit tests #3264
Add confirmation dialog to Restage app #3263
Remove global manage apps link #3259
Add user has roles filter to users tables #3258

30th November 2018

A quieter week for the Stratos team - with some out on vacation as we head towards the festive season.

PRs this week:

Make the table multi actions more obvious #3251
Hide app vars tab if user is not a space developer #3247
Improve resilience of e2e tests #3246
App Wall filter and sort controls size tweaks #3243
Deploy App: Add notification toast #3242

23rd November 2018

We've been continuing to test Stratos 2.2.0 and improving test automation and E2E test reliability.

We've started to work through some of the GitHub issues - the focus for the next couple of sprints is to fix and close out some of the smaller issues and bugs.

We're also working to improve the scalability of Stratos with large numbers of Apps/Orgs/Spaces/Users.

PRs this week:

App Deploy: Add Public GitLab Repository support #3239
Fix CLI info formatting #3237
Show better error message on login screen when account locked #3235
Add Route: Use correct label for submit button #3231
Fix for cancel broken on add route #3228
Backend: Update to latest version of Echo Web Server #3216
Show refresh button for latest modified application lists #3213
Scalability: Handle large number of apps in cf dashboards #3212
Support prometheus-boshrelease as a metrics endpoint #3202
Fix alignment of arrow when no endpoints registered #3234
Run customize when prebuild and log node and npm versions #3232
Add stricter check for jetstream error object #3223
Improve paginated/pagination action naming #3218
Fix display of generic error bar #3214
Only show + icon when we have at least one connected CF #3211

16th November 2018

This week the team has been working on:

Testing Stratos 2.2.0
Enabling Extensions to be published separately
Test automation
E2E Test reliability
Space service tidy up #3197

9th November 2018

This week the team has been:

Testing Stratos 2.2.0
Working towards enabling Extensions to be published separately
Updating developer documents: #3184
Adding initial document for back-end plugins: #3189
Fixed bug with deploying with folder upload: #3191

2nd November 2018

This week we have mostly been:

Releasing Stratos 2.2.0. More details can be found at https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stratos/releases/tag/2.2.0.
Discussing integration of the Autoscaler (https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/app-autoscaler) UI (https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/app-autoscaler-ui) into Stratos. We’ve provided a first round of guidance to the Autoscaler team and are looking forward to the second round next week. The initial designs look great.
Knowledge sharing activities revolving helm charts and concourse release pipelines

26th October 2018

The team were away attending a workshop this week.

The only item of note is that we have now forked the go-flags package that was causing broken dependency issues for us and updated Stratos to use this package. This should allow us to avoid future issues with this package.

19th October 2018

We are preparing for this month's 2.2.0 release which will be out towards the end of the month.

Highlights for this week:

Extensions: Fix for side nav. Add initial docs #3140
User menu improvements #3136
Metrics: Show table of cell health state changes instead of chart #3135
Metrics: Update app instance cell data when scaling up #3133
Metrics: Ensure CF Cells info is shown for non cf admins #3121
Add 'type text to continue' to confirmation modal #3131
Delete App Stepper: Disable delete of routes and services that are bound to other app/s #3129
Endpoints Table: Only show 'Admin' check icon for cf endpoints #3132

12th October 2018

The team have been preparing for and attending the CF Summit in Basel.

5th October 2018

The team have been preparing for the CF Summit in Basel next week.

Highlights for this week (continuing from last week):

E2E Tests and Automation - Focusing on making the E2E tests more resilient to timing issues.
Metrics - Added Diego Cell to the App Instances table when metrics are available and added a Cell view which shows metrics for a given Diego cell.

Fixes:

Ensure we handle orgs with no users #3098 - fixes a bug creating a space in a new org.
Endpoint Registration: Only show SSO option for CF Endpoint type #\3105

28th September 2018

This week saw the release of 2.1.1 and an update 2.1.2. It was necessary to tag a 2.1.2 release to resolve a broken backend dependency that would affect users deploying via 'cf push'. You should use 2.1.2 and not 2.1.1.

2.1.2 Highlights

Fix go-flags dependency pinned version broken #3071
App wall filtering can stop working with some filter combinations #3043
Can not connect a metrics endpoint #3035
Backend build issue due to the pinned commit for a dependency being removed #3060
Metrics: Wrong job can be matched up when there are multiple jobs #3057

Highlights for this week (continuing from last week):

Extensions - Work continues on adding extension points in the UI. Extensions is targeted for 2.2.0 in October.
E2E Tests and Automation - Focusing on making the E2E tests more resilient to timing issues.
Metrics - Work to tidy up the existing Cloud Foundry Application metrics is complete.

21st September 2018

This week saw the release of 2.1.0 - the highlights are:

Stratos frontend can be pre-built before pushing to Cloud Foundry to enable AOT and reduce push time
SSO support refinements with the ability to now connect a Cloud Foundry endpoint using SSO in addition to SSO login to Straos itself
Ability to specify manifest overrides when deploying an application
Ability to optionally specify Client ID anc Client Secret when registering an endpoint
Add ability to restage an application
Endpoints list now shows logged in user's username and whether they're an admin
Switched to new Stratos logo for login and about pages
Backend improvements to make it easier for developers to develop with
Security fixes

Full release information is available here.

Highlights for this week (continuing from last week):

Extensions - Work continues on adding extension points in the UI. Extensions is targeted for 2.2.0 in October.
E2E Tests and Automation - Focusing on making the E2E tests more resilient to timing issues. We have also spent time getting the E2E tests to run against BrowserStack to allow us to automate testing of Stratos across multiple browser types/platforms.
Metrics - Work to tidy up the existing Cloud Foundry Application metrics is complete.
JSON Schema support for Service Instance binding - We have been working to update PR #2997 to get this feature into Stratos.

Fixes/Misc:

Fix app wall filtering issue #3043
Fix for Connect button not being enabled when SSO is the default #3004
Version number always reports 'dev' #3001
Diagnostics does not show GitHub details when cloned via HTTPS #3007
Fix for NULL Client Secret bug #3015
Fix bug where token IDs are not set properly when upgrading from a previous version #3017

14th September 2018

We've been preparing the 2.1.0 release this week. This will be published next week. Going forward we will be publishing a new release every month. The release notes for 2.1.0 have been created and are here.

Highlights for this week:

Extensions - Work continues on adding extension points in the UI. We have PRs up to support adding new side-nav items, tabs and actions. This already goes beyond what could be done in V1 of Stratos. The extension mechanism is also much cleaner due to the use of decorators. Extensions is targeted for 2.2.0 in October.
E2E Tests and Automation - Continuing to build out the E2E test suite and automate the deploy and test of Stratos in different environments (pushed to Cloud Foundry, pushed to Cloud Foundry with MySQL and Postgres, pushed to Cloud Foundry with SSO, Docker compose, Docker All-in-One)
Metrics - Work is almost complete on improving the metrics integration and presentation in the UI. Rather than display a timeline under each graph, we are switching to a control to allow you to choose the time period.

Other updates:

Allow auto-registration name to be configured #2986
SSO: Refinements #2982
- Fix consistency of SSO casing and hyphenation => 'Single Sign-On'
- Make SSO default when connecting if enabled for the endpoint
- Move the SSO Allowed checkbox to the bottom in 'Advanced Options', so that the form does not move when the checkbox is checked and the advisory text appears
Add check to make sure DB Schema migrations have completed (fixes an issue with diagnostics and a possible race-condition when deployed via Helm or Docker Compose) #2977

7th September 2018

Update for this week:

Single Sign-On - Added the ability to enable SSO Login when using the Setup screen.
Metrics - Work continues to improve the metrics integration and presentation in the UI
Extensions - Work has started on adding extension points in the UI. This will be accomplished via decorators, in the same way that Angular uses decorators for Components etc. #2962
Deploy App Manifest overrides - Added an extra step in the 'Deploy App' flow to allow you to override manifest settings before deploying #2924
Show Service plan cost when selecting a service plan (if not free) #2959
E2E Tests - Resolved GitHub rate limits issues when running E2E Tests #2949
Travis - The Travis build has been restructured to run jobs in parallel and E2E tests now run against PRs in addition to branches.

31st August 2018

Update for this week:

Go-backend re-structure - The additional cleanup work has been merged.
Single-Sign-On - Further work on Single-Sign On:
- Improvements - improve error handling, add navigate straight to login option #2522
- Link tokens rather than copying them #2916
- Allow a Cloud Foundry endpoint to be connected with SSO login #2928
Allow Client ID and Secret to be set when registering an endpoint #2920
Scalability:
- Change application list in service instance table row from vertical to chip list #2915
- Convert space apps list from local to remote #2913
Metrics - Work has started on tidying up and improving the metrics views

24th August 2018

Update for this week:

Go-backend re-structure - This work has now been merged and should make it easier to develop with and contribute to. Some additional clean up was done and is awaiting PR review.
Extended end-to-end test suite - Further work to build-out the E2E test suite. See:
- Services E2E: Service Instance creation with App Binding #2855
- E2E: Basic Application Routes tests #2862
- E2E: Basic Application Instances tests #2863
- E2E: Basic test for Cf/Org/Space users tables #2904
Small improvements and fixes for the Diagnostics page #2860

17th August 2018

Update for this week:

2.0.1 - We tagged a 2.0.1 release. This is identical to 2.0.0 and only fixes an issue with a broken dependency - one of the pinned dependencies was no longer working. This issue only affects you if you were pushing to Cloud Foundry from the 2.0.0 tag.
Pre-built UI - We added the ability to pre-build the UI before pushing to Cloud Foundry. This allows you to build the UI with AOT (Ahead-of-time) compilation enabled and push to CF. This will also reduce push time. See the doc Pre-building the UI.
Go-backend re-structure. Work is almost complete on re-structuring the go backend to make it easier to develop with and contribute to. See issue #2815.
Extended end-to-end test suite

10th August 2018

A similar update to last week, focusing on metrics, testing and the community.

Testing the new metrics deployment process.
Improving the end to end test setup process, this will enable better coverage of service tests.
Improving test coverage, both unit and end to end, of the often used list component.
Improving test coverage of entity validation, another often used component.
Manage application stats requests better in the application wall when there are many many started apps.
Investigating, solving and shepherding community issues. Some of the stand out ones..
- Stratos URLs are now consistent. Previously for the same CF the id would change every time it's registered, meaning bookmarks would need updating following every re-registration. Now as long as the CF API url doesn't change the CF id in the url will remain the same. - cloudfoundry#2798
- Correctly report application instance counts with respect to app state - cloudfoundry#2797
- Apply permissions to application actions (start, restart, etc) - cloudfoundry#2806

3 August 2018

This week we've focused on..

Making metrics components easier to deploy. This will help us apply polish and publicise CF metrics in the coming weeks.
Improving test suites and coverage.
Responding to community issues. There's been an increase in use and some great contributions.
Fixing older, but still valid, issues that haven't quite been important to address at the time.

In addition we’ve created a short (a few minutes) survey to get a better idea how the community plan to use Stratos. Answers and feedback will directly impact the direction we take Stratos, so the quicker we have responses the quicker we can act on them. Follow this link to start answering https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2L8XWST

27 July 2018

The main news this week is that we have released a first version of Stratos 2.0.

We've been focused over the past weeks on fixing bugs and improving tests and we're delighted to have reached this milestone.

The release details are available here - https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stratos/releases/tag/2.0.0.

We've also started to catch up on some of the outstanding PRs, especially submitted from the community, for example:

Change DB schema and backend to support storing a client/secret for each Endpoint #2622
Fix migrate script to work in Postgresql #2601

20 July 2018

This week the focus has been on further testing and refinement of Release Candidate 2.

We will be publishing a Release Candidate 3 on Monday 23 July. We expect this to be the final RC and will most likely promote this to be the final Version 2 release later next week.

We've been focused on more test automation and building out more end-to-end tests, in addition to fixing a few bugs.

We had an issue with the Angular AOT + build optimization which pushed the final RC into next week. This took a while to get to the bottom of.

For a full list of merged PRs this week, see: Merged PRs.

13 July 2018

The SUSE team has been participating in SUSE Hack Week, so there is no change in status this week.

Work resumes next week on getting a first 2.0 release published.

06 July 2018

This week the focus has been on further testing and refinement of Release Candidate 2.

We've been identifying and fixing issues - see: Merged PRs.

29 June 2018

This week the focus has been on creating a Release Candidate of Version 2.

In fact, we published two Release Candidates - at the start and end of the week - full details here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stratos/releases

A large number of bugs and smaller issues have been resolved since last week's Beta 2 release - full details here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stratos/compare/2.0.0-beta-002...2.0.0-rc2

Work has been focused on testing the Release Candidates and fixing defects.

22 June 2018

This week the focus has been on creating a second Beta release of Version 2.

A large number of bugs and smaller issues have been resolved - full details here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stratos/releases/tag/2.0.0-beta-002.

15 June 2018

We are working towards a release of V2. We are now functionally complete and are working through priority 1 issues and defects.

The release schedule is updated here - Roadmap.
Priority 1 defects are labelled P1 - you can view them with this Filter
We have tagged a Beta 1 of Version 2 of Stratos today - https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stratos/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta-001

We've been working through a large number of defects this week -

Deploy info card shows both file and folder info #2351
App Service Instances: Modal appears off screen #2347
Users list is empty after cancel #2339
We still show large no connected CF endpoints even when you connect a metrics endpoint #2332
Connected endpoint does not show 'unregister' action #2321
Service instance page shows no 'no cf connected' warning #2320
No page header on Cloud Foundry pages when you go directly there #2319
Service Instance entity is not updated after unbinding an app #2317
Service broker card intermittently appears immediately below service summary card #2314
Select cf/org/space in create service instance stepper mentions app #2313
Adding a space scoped service should not show org/space selection step #2311
Front-end unit tests are unreliable in Travis #2308
Not all backend tests are run #2300
Log Stream token refresh does not work #2299
Marketplace: Service Broker card should be hidden if the broker isn't returned by API #2279
Endpoint Users are not refetched when an endpoint is reconnected as a different user. #2274
Marketplace service cards tags list fails to expand #2263
App bound service is shown in services to bind to list #2253
Error response handling is broken #2242
Investigate issue with space-scoped services being returned incorrectly by the List Services for Space request #2240
App Log Stream shows Connecting.... for apps that aren't running #2235
Map Existing Routes: Sort by apps attached is broken #2210
Application: OFFLINE WHILE UPDATING state only allows the delete action. #2208
Cf/Org/Space filters are not updating on endpoint change #2162
Component effects are cropped in steppers #2116
Cloud Foundry orgs and space views contain multiple app-headers #2051
2nd row of tabs sometimes disappears #2005
Instances tab shows Unknown when scaling (with crashed app) #2002
Console setup improvements #2 #1974
Services page does not update after connecting/disconnected an SCF #1973
White bar flashes at top of page on Cloud Foundry page #1963
Show service type in service wall card #2315
Show space name in space broker card #2312
Add confirmation modals where required #2257
Add git commit id and whether user is an admin on the about page #2246
Update base images for git vulnerability CVE 2018-11235 #2241
Update service steppers following async stepper changes #2234
CF Permissions - Apply to user management #2226
CF Permissions - Apply to services #2225
CF Permissions - Apply to App Wall + Summary #2224
V1 e2e fix #2316 (nwmac)