Behavior Changes and Removed Capabilities

Behavior Changes

The following list includes changes in behavior introduced into CloudShell by version:

Capability Change Description Changed in Release
Python versions

In 2022.1, we updated CloudShell's Python versions as follows:

  • 2.7.10 to 2.7.18
  • 3.7.1 to 3.9.9

This may cause unexpected behavior if your automation is constrained to use specific Python versions.

 2022.1 EA
API tokens

To increase security and to allow time-based token access to the system, CloudShell 2022.1 generates a time-based token for our product APIs. In previous versions, only some of the APIs used such a system. By default, the token validity period is 5 hours.

Notes:
  • For security reasons, we recommend upgrading to the latest version of CloudShell.
  • Existing automation code utilizing Quali API may need to be updated to regenerate a token whenever an existing token expires.
 2022.1 EA
Reserve form

The Blueprint Name field in the Reserve form is no longer editable.

 2022.1 EA
New Job Scheduling In this CloudShell version, the Test Execution Servers use Robot Framework 4.0. As such, tests using an older version of the framework might not work as expected. For details, see this section in the Robot Framework 4.0 release notes. 2022.1 EA
Updated BI dashboards

The following out-of-the-box dashboards will be replaced by the new 2021.2 GA version (customized out-of-the-box dashboards will be left as is): Blueprints, Inventory, Sandboxes, Users, and Utilization. Viewer access is provided out-of-the-box, allowing CloudShell users to view and use the dashboards.

Initial configuration, as well as the ability to add/customize dashboards and use legacy versions requires privileged access. For details, contact your Quali Account Manager.

 2021.2 GA
New Job Scheduling For security reasons, the Mongo deployment is no longer accessible outside the Kubernetes cluster and as a result does not get an external IP. However, external access can easily be configured using the externalAccess tag n the mongodb section of the customer-values-yaml. For details, see Upgrade Considerations for New Job Scheduling. 2021.2 EA
New Job Scheduling

Before upgrading from an earlier version, make sure to run the following on the Kubernetes client machine:

kubectl delete secret cloudshell-acr -n cloudshell
 2021.2 EA
New Job Scheduling Job Scheduling Service needs to be restarted after 2021.2 EA upgrade. This only applies to 2021.2 EA version and will be fixed for the GA. 2021.2 EA
Blocking the option to link license pool to global domain When a user tries to attach a license pool to the Global domain they will now get a message stating that pools can't be associated with the global domain. This does not apply to existing associations of license pools with Global domain. 2021.2 EA
Periods no longer supported in abstract resource names Abstract resource names no longer support '.' (period) characters. Furthermore, importing blueprints will replace periods with underscores '_' in abstract resource names. 2020.2
New CloudShell installation prerequisites

As of version 2020.2 we are moving some of our Sandbox related data to be managed and stored in Mongo DB instead of SQL Server. This allows CloudShell to drastically improve its performance, allowing hundreds of Sandbox reservation per minute.

  • 2 new prerequisites are installed on Quali Sever:
    • MongoDB
    • RabbitMQ
  • Quali Server's Installation Wizard and QsConfig have gone through some changes. New screens and some updated to existing screens have been added to the flow.
 2020.2 GA
DB optimizations clean-ups Data expiration is defined by default to be saved indefinitely. Admins can now define the time to keep sandbox event log data via the SandboxLogAndOutputSaveDuration configuration key. 2020.2 GA
"In Use" Sandbox overtime

When using Job Scheduling, sandboxes will now end once all tests in the job are completed or the sandbox reaches its defined duration (the earlier of the two). This applies also to sandboxes that include L1 switches or use an ActivateTopology API method.

9.3 GA Patch 5

Breaking Changes

The following list includes capabilities that have been removed from CloudShell and the version number in which the change was introduced.

 

Capability Change Description Changed in Release
Partial search in sandboxes dashboard The Sandboxes dashboard does not support searching by partial sandbox id. 2021.2 EA
Blueprint Build Type - Deprecation It is no longer possible to reserve blueprints of type Build. 2020.2 GA
Licensing

As of version 9.3, customers that have a Team Tier license will not be able to:

  1. Have more than 50 concurrent licenses
  2. Use white labeling
  3. SSO to the system
 9.3 GA
Licensing Customers that will not have a job scheduling add-on license will not see the job scheduling tab in the portal, and will not be able to start jobs using API calls. 9.3 GA