IAC & DevX Updates; new blog schedule

New Blog Schedule

Hey, folks! Just a very quick news item to let you know that from today forward we’ll be moving our blog posts from Friday to Monday, bringing them into line with the rest of our work on Community Days.

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

• provision#169: “Add Vagrant provisioner compatibility for additional distros”, thanks to seanmil
• provision#168: “Add vagrant options”, thanks to seanmil
• puppetlabs-firewall#996: “fix: parsing random_fully in ip6tables”, thanks to scoiatael
• puppetlabs-haproxy#489: “allow type ‘default-server’ for balancermember”, thanks to trefzer
• puppetlabs-haproxy#487: “Use Puppet-Datatype Sensitive”, thanks to cocker-cc
• puppetlabs-kubernetes#527: “Add ttl_duration to README”, thanks to danifr
• puppetlabs-kubernetes#526: “Change default runc version to 1.0.0”, thanks to danifr
• puppetlabs-kubernetes#511: “Support both standard Calico and Calico Tigera”, thanks to treydock
• puppetlabs-mysql#1415: “Fix mysql_user parameters update on modern MySQL”, thanks to weastur
• puppetlabs-mysql#1414: “(IAC-1677) Fix issue with deprecated rspec”, thanks to ghoneycutt
• puppetlabs-mysql#1409: “Deprecate mysql::server::mysqltuner and show it as an example”, thanks to ghoneycutt
• puppetlabs-mysql#1408: “Deprecate mysql::server::monitor and show as an example”, thanks to ghoneycutt
• puppetlabs-mysql#1406: “Remove EOL platforms Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04”, thanks to ghoneycutt and the following people who helped get it over the line (alexjfisher)
• puppetlabs-mysql#1405: “(MODULES-11115) add Rocky Linux 8 compatibility”, thanks to vchepkov and the following people who helped get it over the line (ghoneycutt)
• puppetlabs-stdlib#1193: “(MAINT) Remove testing logic for Puppet 4.5”, thanks to b4ldr
• puppetlabs-stdlib#1192: “Stdlib::Http::Method: Add new type for http methods”, thanks to b4ldr
• pdk-templates#442: “Set skip_branch_with_pr to true by default in appveyor.yml template”, thanks to TraGicCode

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New Module / Gem Releases

The following modules were released this week:

• puppetlabs-haproxy (6.1.0)
• puppetlabs-mysql (11.1.0)

Other Work

Tomcat’s week

This week we focused on the Tomcat module; as tomcat7 is EOL, we’ve made the necessary changes to solve the issues coming with the removal of it. Also, we worked at a feature which allows you to remove webapps and a PR for tomcat7 removal was opened.