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Release Notes - ISLE v.1.2.0, 2019-08-13

Contributions to this release from:

  • David Keiser-Clark (Williams College), documentation
  • Gavin Morris (Born-Digital), code updates and testing
  • Mark McFate (Grinnell College), testing and documentation
  • Bethany Seeger (Amherst College), testing and release manager
  • Noah Smith (Born Digital), code updates and testing
  • Shaun Trujillo (Mount Holyoke College), code updates and testing

ISLE (main project)

  • New structure for launching ISLE environments. This allows guidance in how one would configure ISLE for different scenarios. If you are upgrading from ISLE versions 1.1.1 or 1.1.2, see the upgrade instructions to configure your existing environments for the updated workflow.
  • New docker-compose files and environment profiles created for:
    • Demo - use this to spin up ISLE quickly just to check it out
    • Local (new, migrate) - use this for a local development environment
    • Staging (new, migrate) -- use this to setup a staging environment for your production website
    • Production (new, migrate) - use this for your production environment
    • Test - an environment for ISLE contributors; it includes automated testing code
  • New settings.php and php.ini files for each of the above configurations.

  • New traefik.toml files for each configuration.

  • Adds TICK Dashboard as an optional feature in the Staging/Production/Test environments. TICK is a suite of open-source applications that are used together for the storing, visualization and monitoring of data (time series metrics) gathered from running systems. The TICK stack was created and is developed by Influxdata which is "...dedicated to open source and truly cares about helping developers get to results faster with less complexity and less code." To enable TICK on your system, please read through Tick Stack Page

  • Logging to physical files is turned off in each Docker container. To view the logs now, you can use one of these methods:

  • Docker method: (when using the Docker json driver and TICK is not on)
    • Single container: docker logs -f
    • All containers: docker logs --tail=0 --follow
    • To learn more: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/logs/
  • Docker-compose method: (when using the Docker json driver and TICK is not on)
    • Single container: docker-compose logs -f
    • All containers: docker-compose logs --tail=0 --follow
    • To learn more: https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/logs/
  • Use the TICK Log viewer if TICK is setup and using the Docker syslog driver. Please read the ISLE TICK documentation to see how to set this up TICK Stack Page

Upgrade

If you are coming from ISLE releases 1.1.1 & 1.1.2 - there will be some additional steps to take to migrate to this new release.

The following files will need you to review, edit and/or merge in previous settings:

  • .env - All previous variables with the exception of the four below have been moved to the demo, local, staging and production .env files. By default this file will be set to the demo environment.
  • Default settings for ISLE. Change for other environments as needed.
COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=isle_demo
BASE_DOMAIN=isle.localdomain
CONTAINER_SHORT_ID=ld
COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.demo.yml

  • You'll need to change the settings above to match whatever ISLE environment you would like. You'll need to copy over the settings from your previous local, Staging and Production. Please note on Staging and Production, you'll be making a local commit but NOT pushing back to your main ISLE git repository.

  • All other users, names and passwords from your previous ISLE 1.1.1 & 1.1.2 .env will now need to be copied into the new environment .env files

  • demo.env - Prepopulated. Nothing to change.
  • local.env - Copy over all users, names and passwords from your previous Local ISLE 1.1.1 & 1.1.2 .env to the appropriate variable. Remove the comments and replace with the appropriate Local values.
  • staging.env - Copy over all users, names and passwords from your previous Staging ISLE 1.1.1 & 1.1.2 .env to the appropriate variable. Remove the comments and replace with the appropriate Staging values.

  • production.env - Copy over all users, names and passwords from your previous Production ISLE 1.1.1 & 1.1.2 .env to the appropriate variable. Remove the comments and replace with the appropriate Production values.

  • docker-compose.yml - This file no longer exists in ISLE 1.2.0 and has been replaced by new docker-compose files and environment profiles created for:

  • Demo - docker-compose.demo.yml - use this to spin up ISLE quickly just to check it out.
  • Local - docker-compose.local.yml - use this for a local development environment.
    • Copy over your previous ISLE Local docker-compose.yml settings as needed and merge into this file.
  • Staging - docker-compose.staging.yml -- use this for your staging environment.
    • Copy over your previous ISLE Staging docker-compose.yml settings as needed and merge into this file.

  • Production - docker-compose.production.yml- use this for your production environment.

    • Copy over your previous ISLE Production docker-compose.yml settings as needed and merge into this file.

  • There are also new ./config/apache/settings_php/settings.*.php files used in ISLE 1.2.0 which are also separated by environment e.g. settings.local.php, etc.

  • As instructed above, you'll need to ensure that for every settings.*.php file, the values from your previous .env file are copied in here as well.
  • Within the new settings.*.php files, search for two sections called ISLE Configuration. Follow the inline instructions as directed to determine which values should be copied in.

ISLE Docker Images

isle-tomcat

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Updated GEN_DEP_PACKS dependencies via apt-get
  • Upgraded tomcat to 8.5.43
  • Upgraded S6 overlay to 1.22.1
  • Logging configuration changed

isle-fedora

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Updated GEN_DEP_PACKS dependencies via apt-get
  • Upgraded Maven to 3.6.1
  • Upgraded Ant to 1.10.6
  • Logging configuration changed

isle-imageservices

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Updated GEN_DEP_PACKS dependencies via apt-get
  • Logging configuration changed

isle-solr

  • Readme change
  • Logging configuration changed

isle-apache

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Upgraded PHP to version 7.1 from 5.61
  • Upgraded FITS to version 1.4.1
  • Upgraded S6 overlay to 1.22.1
  • Upgraded ImageMagick to version 7.0.8-56
  • Logging configuration changed

isle-mysql

  • Logging configuration changed