Choria Server 0.16.0

We had a release quite recently but I wanted to release a number of Scout related features to early adopters, these releases are mainly focussed on Scout but includes a few bug fixes and new builds for Ubuntu Focal (20.04 LTS).

The big item here is that we have integrated Goss into the Scout framework and it can now run validations regularly. See the Scout Goss blog post for details.

You’ll also notice a new agent - scout - on your nodes, this gives API access to interact with Scout checks on Choria servers.

Additionally, we are starting to work on our documentation for Scout, an initial cut of this is also published today, this shows our Puppet integration, Prometheus integration and a bit about the events.

Thanks to Romain Tartière for contributions to these releases.

Read on for the full details.

Choria Server version 0.16.0

Links: Changes, Release

Initial work on a Scout framework towards building a monitoring related distribution
Add a new scout agent and Golang client
Release packages for Ubuntu Focal (20.04 LTS)
Add helpers to parse complex data in generated clients
Include a snapshot of recent check states in published check events
Extract the generic result display logic from choria req into a reusable package
Support performing goss validation in the nagios autonomous agent
Restore the ability for DDLs to declare display formats for aggregate outputs
Add a choria scout watch command
Fix targeting a specific sub collective in the req command
Generated clients perform 2 discoveries per request
Improve using the supplied logger in generated clients
Avoid zombies when Ruby agents exceed their allowed run time