Change Log

Unreleased

2.9.6 - 2017-10-03

Added

Fixed

  • RemoteFS disk attach fixes
  • Nvidia docker volume mount check

2.9.5 - 2017-09-24

Added

  • Optional version support for platform_image. This property can be used to set a host OS version to prevent possible issues that occur with latest image versions.
  • --all-starting option for pool delnode which will delete all nodes in starting state

Changed

  • Prevent invalid configuration of HPC offers with non-RDMA VM sizes
  • Expanded network tuning exemptions for new Dv3 and Ev3 sizes
  • Temporarily override Canonical UbuntuServer 16.04-LTS latest version to a prior version due to recent linux-azure kernel issues

Fixed

  • NV driver updates
  • Various OS updates and Docker issues
  • CentOS 7.3 to 7.4 Nvidia driver breakage
  • Regression in pool ssh on Windows
  • Exception in unusable nodes with pool stats on allocation
  • Handle package manager db locks during conflicts for local package installs

2.9.4 - 2017-09-12

Changed

  • Update dependencies to latest available
  • Improve Docker builds

Fixed

  • Missing join_by function in blobxfer helper script (#115)
  • Fix clear() for pool udi with Python 2.7 (#118)

2.9.3 - 2017-08-29

Fixed

  • Ignore resize_timeout for autoscale-enabled pools
  • Present a warning for jobs migrate indicating Docker image requirements
  • Various doc typos and updates

2.9.2 - 2017-08-16

Added

  • Deep learning Jupyter notebooks (thanks to @msalvaris and @thdeltei)
  • Automatic site-extensions NuGet package updates with tagged releases via AppVeyor builds
  • Caffe2-CPU and Caffe2-GPU Recipes

Changed

  • Python 3.3 is no longer supported (due to cryptography dropping support for 3.3).
  • Use multi-stage build for Cascade to improve build times and reduce Docker image size

Fixed

  • Provide more helpful feedback for invalid clients
  • Fix provisioning clusters with disks larger than 2TB
  • RemoteFS issues in resize and expand
  • Various site extension issues, will now proper install/upgrade to the associated tagged version

2.9.0rc1 - 2017-08-09

Added

  • Recurring job support (job schedules). Please see jobs configuration doc for more information.
  • custom task factory. See the task factory guide for more information.
  • --all-jobschedules option for jobs term and jobs del
  • --jobscheduleid option for jobs disable, jobs enable and jobs migrate
  • --all option for jobs listtasks

Changed

  • autogenerated_task_id_prefix configuration setting is now named autogenerated_task_id and is a complex property. It has member properties named prefix and zfill_width to control how autogenerated task ids are named.
  • jobs list will now output job schedules in addition to jobs
  • --all parameter for jobs term and jobs del renamed to --all-jobs
  • list subcommands now output in a more human readable format

2.9.0b2 - 2017-08-04

Added

  • random and file task factories. See the task factory guide for more information.
  • Summary statistics: pool stats and jobs stats. See the usage doc for more information.
  • Delete unusable nodes from pool with --all-unusable option for pool delnode
  • CentOS-HPC 7.3 support
  • CNTK-GPU-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipe

Changed

  • remove_container_after_exit now defaults to true
  • input_data:azure_storage files with an include filter that does not include wildcards (i.e., targets a single file) will now be placed at the destination directly as specified.
  • Nvidia Tesla driver updated to 384.59
  • TensorFlow recipes updated for 1.2.1. TensorFlow-Distributed launcher.sh script is now generalized to take a script as the first parameter and relocated to /shipyard/launcher.sh.
  • CNTK recipes updated for 2.1. run_cntk.sh script now takes in CNTK Python scripts for execution.

Fixed

  • Task termination with force failing due to new task generators
  • pool udi over SSH terminal mangling

2.9.0b1 - 2017-07-31

Added

  • Autoscale support. Please see the Autoscale guide for more information.
  • Autopool support
  • Task factory and parametric sweep support. Please see the task factory guide for more information.
  • Job priority support
  • Job migration support with new command jobs migrate
  • Compute node fill type support
  • New commands: jobs enable and jobs disable. Please see the usage doc for more information.
  • From Scratch: Step-by-Step guide
  • Azure Cloud Shell information

Changed

  • Auto-generated task prefix is now task-. This can now be overridden with the autogenerated_task_id_prefix property in the global configuration.
  • Update dependencies to latest except for azure-mgmt-compute due to broken changes

Fixed

  • RemoteFS regressions
  • Pool deletion with poolid argument cleanup

2.8.0 - 2017-07-06

Added

  • Support for CentOS 7.3 NC/NV gpu pools
  • --all-start-task-failed parameter for pool delnode

Changed

  • Improve robustness of docker image pulls within node prep scripts
  • Restrict node list queries until pool allocation state emerges from resizing

Fixed

  • Remove nvidia gpu driver property from FFmpeg recipe
  • Further improve retry logic for docker image pulls in cascade

2.8.0rc2 - 2017-06-30

Added

  • Support Mac OS X and Windows Subsystem for Linux installations via install.sh (#101)
  • Guide for Windows Subsystem for Linux installations
  • Automated Nvidia driver install for NV-series

Changed

  • Drop unsupported designations for Mac OS X and Windows
  • Update Docker engine to 17.06 for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and 17.04 for OpenSUSE

Fixed

  • Regression in private registry image pulls

2.8.0rc1 - 2017-06-27

Added

  • Version metadata added to pools and jobs with warnings generated for mismatches (#89)
  • Cloud shell installation support

Changed

  • Update Docker images to Alpine 3.6 (#65)
  • Improve robustness of package downloads
  • Add retries for docker pull within cascade context
  • Download cascade.log on start up failures

Fixed

  • Patch job for auto completion (#97)
  • Tensorboard command with custom images
  • conda-forge detection in installation scripts (#100)

2.8.0b1 - 2017-06-07

Added

  • Custom image support, please see the pool configuration doc and custom image guide for more information. (#94)
  • contrib area with packer scripts

Changed

  • Breaking Change: publisher, offer, sku is now part of a complex property named vm_configuration:platform_image. This change is to accommodate custom images. The old configuration schema is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
  • Updated NVIDIA Tesla driver to 375.66

Fixed

  • Improved pool resize/allocation logic to fail early with low priority core quota reached with no dedicated nodes

2.7.0 - 2017-05-31

Added

  • --poolid parameter for pool del to specify a specific pool to delete

Changed

  • Prompt for confirmation for jobs cmi
  • Updated to latest dependencies
  • Split low-priority considerations into separate doc

Fixed

  • Remote FS allocation issue with vm_count deprecation check
  • Better handling of package index refresh errors
  • pool udi over SSH issues (#92)
  • Duplicate volume checks between job and task definitions

2.7.0rc1 - 2017-05-24

Added

  • pool listimages command which will list all common Docker images on all nodes and provide warning for mismatched images amongst compute nodes. This functionality requires a provisioned SSH user and private key.
  • max_wall_time option for both jobs and tasks. Please consult the documentation for the difference when specifying this option at either the job or task level.
  • --poll-until-tasks-complete option for jobs listtasks to block the CLI from exiting until all tasks under jobs for which the command is run have completed
  • --tty option for pool ssh and fs cluster ssh to enable allocation of a pseudo-tty for the SSH session

Changed

  • remove_container_after_exit, retention_time, shm_size, infiniband, gpu can now be specified at the job-level and overriden at the task-level in the jobs configuration
  • data_volumes and shared_data_volumes can now be specified at the job-level and any volumes specified at the task level will be merged with the job-level volumes to be exposed for the container

Fixed

  • Add missing deprecation path for pool_specification_vm_count for multi-instance tasks. Please upgrade your jobs configuration to explicitly use either pool_specification_vm_count_dedicated or pool_specification_vm_count_low_priority.
  • Speed up task collection additions by caching last task id
  • Issues with pool resize and wait logic with low priority

2.7.0b2 - 2017-05-18

Changed

  • Allow the prior vm_count behavior, but provide a deprecation warning. The old vm_count behavior will be removed in a future release. (#84)
  • Add tasks via collection (#86)
  • Log if node is dedicated in pool listnodes
  • Updated all recipes with new vm_count changes

Fixed

  • Improve pool resize wait logic for pools with mixed node types
  • Do not override workdir if specified (#87)
  • Prevent container scanning for data ingress from Azure Storage if include filter contains no wildcards (#88)

2.7.0b1 - 2017-05-12

Added

  • Support for Low Priority Batch Compute Nodes
  • resize_timeout can now be specified on the pool specification
  • --clear-tables option to storage del command which will delete blob containers and queues but clear table entries
  • --ssh option to pool udi command which will force the update Docker images command to update over SSH instead of through a Batch job. This is useful if you want to perform an out-of-band update of Docker image(s), e.g., your pool is currently busy processing tasks and would not be able to accommodate another task.

Changed

  • Breaking Change: vm_count in the pool specification is now a complex property consisting of the properties dedicated and low_priority
  • Updated all dependencies to latest

Fixed

  • Improve node startup time for GPU NC-series by removing extraneous dependencies
  • fs cluster ssh storage cluster id and command argument ordering was inverted. This has been corrected to be as intended where the command is the last argument, e.g., fs cluster ssh mynfs -- df -h

2.6.2 - 2017-05-05

Added

  • Docker image build for develop branch

Changed

  • Allow NVIDIA license agreement to be auto-confirmed via -y option
  • Use requests for file downloading since it is already being installed as a dependency
  • Update dependencies to latest versions

Fixed

  • TensorFlow image not being set if no suitable image is found for misc tensorboard command
  • Authentication for running images not present in global config sourced from a private registry

2.6.1 - 2017-05-01

Added

  • misc tensorboard command added which automatically instantiates a Tensorboard instance on the compute node which is running or has ran a task that has generated TensorFlow summary operation compatible logs. An SSH tunnel is then created so you can view Tensorboard locally on the machine running Batch Shipyard. This requires a valid SSH user that has been provisioned via Batch Shipyard with private keys available. This command will work on Windows if ssh.exe is available in %PATH% or the current working directory. Please see the usage guide for more information about this command.
  • Pool-level resource_files support

Changed

  • Added optional COMMAND argument to pool ssh and fs cluster ssh commands. If COMMAND is specified, the command is run non-interactively with SSH on the target node.
  • Added some additional sanity checks in the node prep script
  • Updated TensorFlow-CPU and TensorFlow-GPU recipes to 1.1.0. Removed specialized Docker build for TensorFlow-GPU. Added jobs-tb.json files to TensorFlow-CPU and TensorFlow-GPU recipes as Tensorboard samples.
  • Optimize some Batch calls

Fixed

  • Site extension issues
  • SSH user add exception on Windows
  • jobs del --termtasks will now disable the job prior to running task termination to prevent active tasks in job from running while tasks are being terminated
  • jobs listtasks and data listfiles will now accept a --jobid that does not have to be in jobs.json
  • Data ingress on pool create issue with single node

2.6.0 - 2017-04-20

Changed

  • Update to latest dependencies

Fixed

  • Checks that prevented ssh/scp/openssl interaction on Windows
  • SSH private key regression in data ingress direct to compute node

2.6.0rc1 - 2017-04-14

Added

  • Richer SSH options with new ssh_public_key_data and ssh_private_key properties in ssh configuration blocks (for both pool.json and fs.json).
  • ssh_public_key_data allows direct embedding of SSH public keys in OpenSSH format into the config files.
  • ssh_private_key specifies where the private key is located with respect to pre-created public keys (either ssh_public_key or ssh_public_key_data). This allows transparent pool ssh or fs cluster ssh commands with pre-created keys.
  • RemoteFS-GlusterFS+BatchPool recipe

Changed

  • Docker installations are now pinned to a specific Docker version which should reduce sudden breaking changes introduced upstream by Docker and/or the distribution
  • Fault domains for multi-vm storage clusters are now set to 2 by default but can be configured using the fault_domains property. This was lowered from the prior default of 3 due to managed disks and availability set restrictions as some regions do not support 3 fault domains with this combination.
  • Updated NC-series Tesla driver to 375.51

Fixed

  • Broken Docker installations due to gpgkey changes
  • Possible race condition between disk setup and glusterfs volume create
  • Forbid SSH username to be the same as the samba username
  • Allow smbd.service to auto-restart with delay
  • Data ingress to glusterfs on compute with no remotefs settings

Removed

  • Host support for OpenSUSE 13.2 and SLES 12

2.6.0b3 - 2017-04-03

Added

  • Created Azure App Service Site Extension. You can now one-click install Batch Shipyard as a site extension (after you have Python installed) and use Batch Shipyard from an Azure Function trigger.
  • Samba support on storage cluster servers
  • Add sample RemoteFS recipes for NFS and GlusterFS
  • install.cmd installer for Windows. install_conda_windows.cmd has been replaced by install.cmd, please see the install doc for more information.

Changed

  • Breaking Change: multi_instance_auto_complete under job_specifications is now named auto_complete. This property will apply to all types of jobs and not just multi-instance tasks. The default is now false (instead of true for the old multi_instance_auto_complete).
  • Breaking Change: static_public_ip has been replaced with a public_ip complex property. This is to accommodate for situations where public IP for RemoteFS is disabled. Please see the Remote FS configuration doc for more info.
  • install.sh now handles Anaconda Python environments
  • --cardinal 0 is now implicit if no --hostname or --nodeid is specified for fs cluster ssh or pool ssh commands, respectively
  • Allow docker_images in global_resources to be empty. Note that it is always recommended to pre-load images on to pools for consistent scheduling latencies from pool idle.

Fixed

  • Removed requirement of a batch credential section for pure fs operations
  • Multi-instance auto complete setting not being properly read
  • install.sh virtual environment issues
  • Fix pool ingress data calls with remotefs (#62)
  • Move additional node prep commands to last set of commands to execute in start task (#63)
  • glusterfs_on_compute shared data volume issues
  • future and pathlib compat issues
  • Python2 unicode/str issues with management libraries

2.6.0b2 - 2017-03-22

Added

  • Added virtual environment install option for install.sh which is now the recommended way to install Batch Shipyard. Please see the install guide for more information. (#55)

Changed

  • Force SSD optimizations for btrfs with premium storage

Fixed

  • Incorrect FS server options parsing at script time
  • KeyVault client not initialized in fs contexts (#57)
  • Check pool current node count prior to executing pool udi task (#58)
  • Initialization with KeyVault uri on commandline (#59)

2.6.0b1 - 2017-03-16

Added

  • Support for provisioning storage clusters via the fs cluster command
  • Support for NFS (single VM, scale up)
  • Support for GlusterFS (multi VM, scale up and out)
  • Support for provisioning managed disks via the fs disks command
  • Support for data ingress to provisioned storage clusters
  • Support for UserSubscription Batch accounts
  • Azure Active Directory authentication support for Batch accounts
  • Support for specifying a virtual network to use with a compute pool
  • allow_run_on_missing_image option to jobs that allows tasks to execute under jobs with Docker images that have not been pre-loaded via the global_resources:docker_images setting in config.json. Note that, if possible, you should attempt to specify all Docker images that you intend to run in the global_resources:docker_images property in the global configuration to minimize scheduling to task execution latency.
  • Support for running containers as a different user identity (uid/gid)
  • Support for Canonical/UbuntuServer/16.04-LTS. 16.04-LTS should be used over the old 16.04.0-LTS sku due to issue #31 and is no longer receiving updates.

Changed

  • Breaking Change: glusterfs volume_driver for shared_data_volumes should now be named as glusterfs_on_compute. This is to distinguish between co-located GlusterFS on compute nodes with standalone GlusterFS storage_cluster remote mounted distributed file system.
  • Logging now has less verbose details (call origin) by default. Prior behavior can be restored with the -v option.
  • Pool existance is now checked prior to job submission and can now proceed to add without an active pool.
  • Batch account (name) is now an optional property in the credentials config
  • Configuration doc broken up into multiple pages
  • Update all recipes using Canonical/UbuntuServer/16.04.0-LTS to use Canonical/UbuntuServer/16.04-LTS instead
  • Configuration is no longer shown with -v. Use --show-config to dump the complete configuration being used for the command.
  • Precompile Python files during build for Docker images
  • All dependencies updated to latest versions
  • Update Batch API call compatibility for azure-batch 2.0.0

Fixed

  • Logging time format and incorrect Zulu time designation.
  • scp and multinode_scp data movement capability is now supported in Windows given ssh.exe and scp.exe can be found in %PATH% or the current working directory. rsync methods are not supported on Windows.
  • Credential encryption is now supported in Windows given openssl.exe can be found in %PATH% or the current working directory.

2.5.4 - 2017-03-08

Changed

  • Downloaded files are now verified via SHA256 instead of MD5
  • Updated NC-series Tesla driver to 375.39

Fixed

  • nvidia-docker updated to 1.0.1 for compatibility with Docker CE

2.5.3 - 2017-03-01

Added

  • pool rebootnode command added which allows single node reboot control. Additionally, the option --all-start-task-failed will reboot all nodes in the specified pool with the start task failed state.
  • jobs del and jobs term now provide a --termtasks option to allow the logic of jobs termtasks to precede the delete or terminate action to the job. This option requires a valid SSH user to the remote nodes as specified in the ssh configuration property in pool.json. This new option is normally not needed if all tasks within the jobs have completed.

Changed

  • The Docker image used for blobxfer is now tied to the specific Batch Shipyard release
  • Default SSH user expiry time if not specified is now 30 days
  • All recipes now have the default config.json storage account set to the link as named in the provided credentials.json file. Now, only the credentials file needs to be modified to run a recipe.

2.5.2 - 2017-02-23

Added

Changed

  • Perform automatic container path substitution with host path for GlusterFS data ingress/egress from/to Azure Storage (#37)
  • Allow NAMD-TCP recipe to be run on a single node

Fixed

  • CNTK-GPU-OpenMPI run script fixed to allow multinode+singlegpu executions
  • TensorFlow recipes updated for 1.0.0 release
  • blobxfer data ingress on Windows (#39)
  • Minor delete job and terminate tasks fixes

2.5.1 - 2017-02-01

Added

  • Support for max task retries (#23). See configuration doc for more information.
  • Support for task data retention time (#30). See configuration doc for more information.

Changed

  • Breaking Change: environment_variables_secret_id was erroneously named and has been renamed to environment_variables_keyvault_secret_id to follow the other properties with similar behavior.
  • Include Python 3.6 Travis CI target

Fixed

  • Automatically assigned task ids are now in the format dockertask-NNNNN and will increment properly past 99999 but will not be padded after that (#27)
  • Defect in list tasks for tasks that have not run (#28)
  • Docker temporary directory not being set properly
  • SLES-HPC will now install all Intel MPI related rpms
  • Defect in task file mover for unencrypted credentials (#29)

2.5.0 - 2017-01-19

Added

  • Support for Task Dependency Id Ranges with the depends_on_range property under each task json property in tasks in the jobs configuration file. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
  • Support for environment_variables_secret_id in job and task definitions. Specifying these properties will fetch manually added secrets (in the form of a string representation of a json key-value dictionary) from the specified KeyVault using AAD credentials. Please see the configuration doc for more information.

Fixed

  • Remove extraneous import (#12)
  • Defect in handling per key secret ids (#13)
  • Defect in environment variable dict merge (#17)
  • Update Nvidia Docker to 1.0.0 (#21)

2.4.0 - 2017-01-11

Added

  • Support for credentials stored in Azure KeyVault
  • keyvault command added. Please see the usage doc for more information.
  • *_keyvault_secret_id properties added for keys and passwords in credentials json. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
  • Using Azure KeyVault with Batch Shipyard guide

Changed

  • Updated NC-series Tesla driver to 375.20

2.3.1 - 2017-01-03

Added

  • Add support for nvidia-docker with ssh docker tunnel

Fixed

  • Fix multi-job bug with jpcmd

2.3.0 - 2016-12-15

Added

  • pool ssh command. Please see the usage doc for more information.
  • shm_size json property added to the json object within the tasks array of a job. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
  • SSH, Interactive Sessions and Docker SSH Tunnel guide

Changed

  • Improve usability of the generated SSH docker tunnel script

2.2.0 - 2016-12-09

Added

  • CNTK-CPU-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipe

Changed

  • /opt/intel is now automatically mounted once again for infiniband-enabled containers on SUSE SLES-HPC hosts.

Fixed

  • Fix masked KeyErrors on input_data and output_data
  • Fix SAS key generation for data movement
  • Typo in ssh public key check on Windows prevented pool add actions
  • Pin version of tfm docker image on data transfers

2.1.0 - 2016-11-30

Added

  • Allow --configdir, --credentials, --config, --jobs, --pool config options to be specified as environment variables. Please see the usage doc for more information.
  • Added subcommand listskus to the pool command to list available VM configurations (publisher, offer, sku) for the Batch account

Changed

  • Nodeprep now references cascade and tfm docker images by version instead of latest to prevent breaking changes affecting older versions. Docker builds of cascade and tfm based on latest commits are now disabled.

Fixed

  • Cascade docker image run not propagating exit code

2.0.0 - 2016-11-23

Added

  • Support for any Internet accessible container registry, including Azure Container Registry. Please see the configuration doc for information on how to integrate with a private container registry.

Changed

  • GPU driver for STANDARD_NC instances defined in the gpu:nvidia_driver:source property is no longer required. If omitted, an NVIDIA driver will be downloaded automatically with an NVIDIA License agreement prompt. For STANDARD_NV instances, a driver URL is still required.
  • Docker container name auto-tagging now prepends the job id in order to prevent conflicts in case of un-named simultaneous tasks from multiple jobs
  • Update CNTK docker images to 2.0beta4 and optimize GPU images for use with NVIDIA K80/M60
  • Update Caffe docker image, default to using OpenBLAS over ATLAS, and optimize GPU images for use with NVIDIA K80/M60
  • Update MXNet GPU docker image optimized for use with NVIDIA K80/M60
  • Update TensorFlow docker images to 0.11.0 and optimize GPU images for use with NVIDIA K80/M60

Fixed

  • Cascade thread exceptions will terminate with non-zero exit code
  • Some improvements with node prep and reboots
  • Task termination will only issue docker rm if the container exists

2.0.0rc3 - 2016-11-14 (SC16 Edition)

Added

  • install_conda_windows.cmd helper script for installing Batch Shipyard under Anaconda for Windows
  • Added relative_destination_path json property for files ingress into node destinations. This allows arbitrary specification of where ingressed files should be placed relative to the destination path.
  • Added ability to ingress directly into the host without the requirement of GlusterFS for pools with one compute node. A GlusterFS shared volume is required for pools with more than one compute node for direct to pool data ingress.
  • New commands and options:
  • pool udi: Update docker images on all compute nodes in a pool. --image and --digest options can restrict the scope of the update.
  • data stream: --disk will stream the file as binary to disk instead of as text to the local console
  • data listfiles: --jobid and --taskid allows scoping of the list files action
  • jobs listtasks: --jobid allows scoping of list tasks to a specific job
  • jobs add: --tail allows tailing the specified file for the last job and task added
  • Keras+Theano-CPU and Keras+Theano-GPU recipes
  • Keras+Theano-CPU added as an option in the quickstart guide

Changed

  • Breaking Change: Properties of docker_registry have changed significantly to support eventual integration with the Azure Container Registry service. Credentials for docker logins have moved to the credentials json file. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
  • files data ingress no longer creates a directory where files to be uploaded exist. For example if uploading from a path /a/b/c, the directory c is no longer created at the destination. Instead all files found in /a/b/c will be immediately placed directly at the destination path with sub-directories preserved. This behavior can be modified with the relative_destination_path property.
  • CUDA_CACHE_* variables are now set for GPU jobs such that compiled targets pass-through to the host. This allows subsequent container invocations within the same node the ability to reuse cached PTX JIT targets.
  • batch_shipyard:storage_entity_prefix is now optional and defaults to shipyard if not specified.
  • Major internal configuration/settings refactor

Fixed

  • Pool resize down with wait
  • More Python2/3 compatibility issues
  • Ensure pools that deploy GlusterFS volumes have more than 1 node

2.0.0rc2 - 2016-11-02

Added

  • install.sh install/setup helper script
  • shipyard execution helper script created via install.sh
  • generated_sas_expiry_days json property to config json for the ability to override the default number of days generated SAS keys are valid for.
  • New options on commands/subcommands:
  • jobs add: --recreate recreate any jobs which have completed and use the same id
  • jobs termtasks: --force force docker kill to tasks even if they are in completed state
  • pool resize: --wait wait for completion of resize
  • HPCG-Infiniband-IntelMPI and HPLinpack-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipes

Changed

  • Default SAS expiry time used for resource files and data movement changed from 7 to 30 days.
  • Pools failing to start will now automatically retrieve stdout.txt and stderr.txt to the current working directory under poolid/<node ids>/std{out,err}.txt. These files can be inspected locally and submitted as context for GitHub issues if pertinent.
  • Pool resizing will now attempt to add an SSH user on the new nodes if an SSH public key is referenced or found in the invocation directory
  • Improve installation doc

Fixed

  • Improve Python2/3 compatibility
  • Unicode literals warning with Click
  • Config file loading issue in some contexts
  • Documentation typos

2.0.0rc1 - 2016-10-28

Added

  • Comprehensive data movement support. Please see the data movement guide and configuration doc for more information.
  • Ingress from local machine with files in global configuration
    • To GlusterFS shared volume
    • To Azure Blob Storage
    • To Azure File Storage
  • Ingress from Azure Blob Storage, Azure File Storage, or another Azure Batch Task with input_data in pool and jobs configuration
    • Pool-level: to compute nodes
    • Job-level: to compute nodes prior to running the specified job
    • Task-level: to compute nodes prior to running a task of a job
  • Egress to local machine as actions
    • Single file from compute node
    • Entire task-level directories from compute node
    • Entire node-level directories from compute node
  • Egress to Azure Blob of File Storage with output_data in jobs configuration
    • Task-level: to Azure Blob or File Storage on successful completion of a task
  • Credential encryption support. Please see the credential encryption guide and configuration doc for more information.
  • Experimental support for OpenSSH with HPN patches on Ubuntu
  • Support pool resize up with GlusterFS
  • Support GlusterFS volume options
  • Configurable path to place files generated by pool add or pool asu commands
  • MXNet-CPU and Torch-CPU as options in the quickstart guide
  • Update CNTK recipes for 1.7.2 and switch multinode/multigpu samples to MNIST
  • MXNet-CPU and MXNet-GPU recipes

Changed

  • Breaking Change: All new CLI experience with proper multilevel commands. Please see usage doc for more information.
  • Added new commands: cert, data
  • Added many new convenience subcommands
  • --filespec is now delimited by , instead of :
  • Breaking Change: ssh_docker_tunnel in the pool_specification has been replaced by the ssh property. generate_tunnel_script has been renamed to generate_docker_tunnel_script. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
  • The name property of a task json object in the jobs specification is no longer required for multi-instance tasks. If not specified, name defaults to id for all task types.
  • data stream no longer has an arbitrary max streaming time; the action will stream the file indefinitely until the task completes
  • Validate container with storage_entity_prefix for length issues
  • pool del action now cleans up and deletes some storage containers immediately afterwards (with confirmation prompts)
  • /opt/intel is no longer automatically mounted for infiniband-enabled containers on SUSE SLES-HPC hosts. Please see the configuration doc on how to manually map this directory if required. OpenLogic CentOS-HPC hosts remain unchanged.
  • Modularized code base

Fixed

  • GlusterFS mount ownership/permissions fixed such that SSH users can read/write
  • Azure File shared volume setup when invoked from Windows
  • Python2 compatibility issues with file encoding
  • Allow shipyard.py to be invoked outside of the root of the GitHub cloned base directory
  • TensorFlow-Distributed recipe issues

1.1.0 - 2016-10-05

Added

  • Transparent Infiniband assist for SUSE SLES-HPC 12-SP1 image
  • Add version for shipyard.py script
  • NAMD-GPU, OpenFOAM-Infiniband-IntelMPI, Torch-CPU, Torch-GPU recipes

Changed

  • GlusterFS mountpoint is now within $AZ_BATCH_NODE_SHARED_DIR so files can be viewed/downloaded with Batch APIs
  • NAMD-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipe now contains a real Docker image link

Fixed

  • GlusterFS not properly starting on Ubuntu

1.0.0 - 2016-09-22

Added

  • Automated GlusterFS support
  • Added configdir argument for convenience in loading configuration files, please see the usage documentation for more details
  • Ability to retrieve files from live compute nodes in addition to streaming
  • Added filespec argument for non-interactive streamfile and gettaskfile actions
  • Added .gitattributes to designate Unix line-endings for text files
  • Sample configuration files for each recipe
  • Caffe-CPU, OpenFOAM-TCP-OpenMPI, TensorFlow-CPU, TensorFlow-Distributed recipes

Changed

  • Updated configuration docs to detail which properties are required vs. those that are optional
  • SSH tunnel user is now added with a default expiry time of 7 days which can be modified through the pool configuration file
  • Configuration is not output to console by default, -v flag added for verbose output
  • Determinstic remote login settings output (node, ip, port) that can be easily parsed
  • Update Azurefile Docker Volume Driver plugin to 0.5.1

Fixed

  • Cascade (container-only) start issue with no private registry
  • Non-shipyard docker image node prep with new azure-storage package
  • Inter-node communication not specified key error on addpool
  • Cross-platform fixes:
  • Temp file creation used for environment variables
  • SSH tunnel creation disabled on Windows if public key is not supplied
  • Batch Shipyard Docker container not getting cleaned up if peer-to-peer is disabled

Removed

  • gpu:nvidia_driver:version property removed from pool configuration and is no longer required as the version is now automatically detected

0.2.0 - 2016-09-08

Added

  • Transparent GPU support for Azure N-Series VMs
  • New recipes added: Caffe-GPU, CNTK-CPU-OpenMPI, CNTK-GPU-OpenMPI, FFmpeg-GPU, NAMD-Infiniband-IntelMPI, NAMD-TCP, TensorFlow-GPU

Changed

  • Multi-instance tasks now automatically complete their job by default. This removes the need to run the cleanmijobs action in the shipyard tool. Please refer to the multi-instance documentation for more information and limitations.
  • Dumb back-off policy for DHT router convergence
  • Optimzed Docker image storage location for Azure VMs
  • Prompts added for destructive operations in the shipyard tool

Fixed

  • Incorrect file location of node prep finished
  • Blocking wait for global resource on pool can now be disabled
  • Incorrect process call to query for docker image size when peer-to-peer transfer is disabled
  • Use azure-storage 0.33.0 to fix Edm.Int64 overflow issue

0.1.0 - 2016-09-01

Added

  • Initial release