v2.8.2

What's Changed

This is another minor update on v2.8 to avoid unnecessary delete/recreate of compute/login/control nodes:

• Reformat user_data for other nodes by @sjpb in #851

For images see release v2.8.

Full Changelog: v2.8.1...v2.8.2

v2.8.1

What's Changed

This is a minor update on v2.8 to avoid unnecessary delete/recreate of compute nodes:

• Avoid compute node replacements due to optional user_data by @MoteHue in #847
• Use 'nodegroups' param in controlled rebuild docs by @MoteHue in #849

For images see release v2.8.

Full Changelog: v2.8...v2.8.1

v2.8

What's Changed

Improved GPU configuration/support

• Support automatic GRES configuration for NVIDIA GPUs by @sjpb in #820
• Add option to install nvidia-fabricmanager by @claudia-lola in #836
• Add support for GRES to ondemand apps by @sjpb in #837
• Adds bandwidth.yml playbook for NVIDIA nvbandwidth by @claudia-lola in #834
• Make eessi configure gpu node automatically by @claudia-lola in #841
• Bump CUDA to 13.0.2 and NVIDIA driver to 580.105.08 by @priteau in #823

Slurm configuration

• Bump OpenHPC role to v1.4.0 by @sjpb in #818. Adds:
  • Enable use of custom Slurm builds by @sjpb in stackhpc/ansible-role-openhpc#163
  • CI: Switch to latest rockylinux/rockylinux images by @priteau in stackhpc/ansible-role-openhpc#198
  • Add support for mpi.conf templating by @bertiethorpe in stackhpc/ansible-role-openhpc#201
• Bump OpenHPC role to v1.4.1 by @bertiethorpe in #822 - fixes mpi.conf templating

New/improved features

• Add support for InfiniBand interfaces to NHC by @sjpb in #821
• Add tool to set image properties by @sjpb in #829

Docs and other

• Improve pulp docs by @sjpb in #819
• Fix gpg check for cernvmfs installs by @bertiethorpe in #816
• Remove ansible-lint warnings by @bertiethorpe in #817
• Replace whitespace in NHC mount checks by @sjpb in #824
• Allow fixed ip lists to be longer than nodes list by @sjpb in #830
• Add retries to CI tofu apply by @bertiethorpe in #833
• Don't install hpl source during extra builds by @sjpb in #828
• Add docs for eessi by @claudia-lola in #827
• Fix ansible-ssh changes due to linting by @sjpb in #838
• Use Ark repofiles for additional repos by @bertiethorpe in #832
• Set image properties for CI image build and sync by @bertiethorpe in #839
• Run trivy scans on main, to help reporting by @JohnGarbutt in #842
• Describe buildenv in EESSI docs by @claudia-lola in #845

Full Changelog: v2.7...v2.8

Images

Two new images are available:

• RL8: openhpc-RL8-251119-1202-332ac921
• RL9: openhpc-RL9-251119-1202-332ac921

v2.7

What's Changed

• Fix image sync workflow for new larger fat images by @sjpb in #805
• Bump codeserver app to 2025.09.1 to remove password prompt by @bertiethorpe in #806
• Use (group) syntax in access.conf by @priteau in #804
• Remove extra lines in activate scripts by @priteau in #803
• Update fatimages to include OnDemand codeserver password fix by @bertiethorpe in #808
• Improve build group definitions by @sjpb in #788
• Expose FIPs in inventory hosts file by @claudia-lola in #807
• Allow VS Code Remote SSH while blocking NFS mounts by @priteau in #799
• Delete build VMs in CI nightly cleanup by @sjpb in #777

Images

Two new images are available:

• RockyLinux 8: openhpc-RL8-251002-1537-1d21952c
• RockyLinux 9: openhpc-RL9-251002-1456-1d21952c

New Contributors

• @claudia-lola made their first contribution in #807

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.7

v2.6.1

What's Changed

• Fix .caas secrets not persisting post-reimage and skip tofu vars validation for .caas by @wtripp180901 in #798

Images

No new images at this release, see https://github.com/stackhpc/ansible-slurm-appliance/releases/tag/v2.6.

Full Changelog: v2.6...v2.6.1

v2.6

What's Changed

• Add validation for tofu-templated vars by @sjpb in #775
• Fix error message for state_volume_provisioning validation by @sjpb in #780
• Enable linting by @maxstack in #732
• Define login subgroups in Ansible inventory by @priteau in #727
• Fix label in Jupyter Notebook form by @priteau in #787
• Ignore changes to port binding and dhcp options by @sjpb in #778
• Expose vgpu group in site inventory by @priteau in #786
• Add documentation for OpenTofu remote state by @sjpb in #784
• Remove unused cloudalchemy alertmanager role by @sjpb in #781
• Fix various typos by @priteau in #796
• Update dnf repo snapshots (+ source repos, removes RL8 Lustre build CI) by @sjpb in #792
• Validate nodegroup names by @sjpb in #793
• Bump Open OnDemand to v4 & install apps in fatimage by @bertiethorpe in #782
• Support software raid root disks in stackhpc images by @sjpb in #785
• Pin bcrypt to 4.3.0 by @wtripp180901 in #801

Images

Two new images are available:
- RockyLinux 8: openhpc-RL8-250925-1639-62d67ae3
- RockyLinux 9: openhpc-RL9-250925-1639-62d67ae3

New Contributors

• @maxstack made their first contribution in #732

Full Changelog: v2.4.2...v2.6

v2.5

What's Changed

• Refactor Pulp repo definitions and add more Pulp documentation by @wtripp180901 in #760
• Fix incorrect use of "partition" in OpenTofu node group variable definitions by @sjpb in #771
• Bump Pulp snapshots for RL 9.6 by @priteau in #772
• Add support for setting server group in scheduler hints by @sjpb in #773
• Bump CUDA to 13.0.1 and NVIDIA driver to 580.82.07 by @priteau in #776
• Make CaaS specific role: persist_openhpc_secrets idempotent by @bertiethorpe in #774

Full Changelog: v2.4.1...v2.5

Images

Two new images are available:

RockyLinux 8: openhpc-RL8-250820-0800-767addd8
RockyLinux 9: openhpc-RL9-250908-2047-d90ebd0e

v2.4.1

What's Changed

• Fix inventory parsing of cookiecutter env by @MoteHue in #768

Full Changelog: v2.4...v2.4.1

Images

No new images at this release, see https://github.com/stackhpc/ansible-slurm-appliance/releases/tag/v2.4.

v2.4

What's Changed

• Remove ansible.cfg from CaaS environment by @bertiethorpe in #766
• Add filesystems docs by @MoteHue in #710
• CaaS pre-hook fix for galaxy requirements validation by @bertiethorpe in #767
• Production end to end deployment docs by @MoteHue in #678

Full Changelog: v2.3...v2.4

Images

No new images are provided at this release

v2.3

Important

The images in this release are missing the code-server and rstudio Open Ondemand apps. If they are required it is recommended to use v2.7 instead which fixes that plus an issue with the code-server login.

Key Changes

• Move cookiecutter Tofu to new site environment by @wtripp180901 in #751

Caution

Will cause merge conflicts with existing site environments. See PR #751 description for steps to resolve

• Support clusters with no outbound internet by @sjpb in #717
• Add support for topology-aware scheduling by @wtripp180901 in #737
• Add Rstudio, VSCode, Matlab to OOD application catalogue by @bertiethorpe in #738

What's Changed

All PRs:

• Add LICENSE file by @priteau in #725
• Bump DOCA to 2.9.3 by @priteau in #728
• Support clusters with no outbound internet by @sjpb in #717
• Add s-nail package by @priteau in #713
• CI: Use GitHub token for Packer workflows by @priteau in #729
• Fix detection of CUDA package version by @priteau in #731
• Update production.md docs by @sjpb in #730
• Allow using a specific FIP for a build VM by @sjpb in #734
• Fix convenience variables for proxy by @sjpb in #735
• Add support for topology-aware scheduling by @wtripp180901 in #737
• Bump openstack cli to get working FIP commands by @sjpb in #740
• Support passing freeipa server cert on client enrolment by @sjpb in #739
• Deprecate ofed role by @sjpb in #741
• Allow adding additional dnf repos to rewrite by @sjpb in #744
• Add metadata service to no_proxy defaults by @sjpb in #745
• Make rebuilding slurm optional for cuda builds by @sjpb in #746
• Address various issues with production docs by @sjpb in #747
• Update appliance to Rocky 9.6 + Update Lustre to 2.15.7 by @wtripp180901 in #699
• Move HPL source download to fatimage build by @bertiethorpe in #743
• Bump openhpc role by @sjpb in #690
• Move cookiecutter Tofu to new site environment by @wtripp180901 in #751
• Upload CI images to Leafcloud S3 for image syncing by @bertiethorpe in #752
• Don't set topology plugin if topology group not enabled by @sjpb in #754
• Fixup additional_nodes inventory group by @sjpb in #749
• Allow specifying security groups for individual login groups by @wtripp180901 in #758
• Allow setting volume type for node group extra_volumes parameter by @sjpb in #755
• Add Rstudio, VSCode, Matlab to OOD application catalogue by @bertiethorpe in #738
• Allow setting config_drive by @wtripp180901 in #756
• Add option for additional user data by @wtripp180901 in #757
• Configure process tracking and accounting to use cgroups by @bertiethorpe in #762
• Bump CUDA to 13.0 and NVIDIA driver to 580 by @priteau in #764
• Fix parse error in pingmatrix output by @oneswig in #761

Full Changelog: v2.2...v2.3

New Contributors

• @oneswig made their first contribution in #761

Images

Two new images are available:

RockyLinux 8: openhpc-RL8-250808-1727-faa44755
RockyLinux 9: openhpc-RL9-250808-1727-faa44755