Plumbery

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* Handover project governance to Dimension Data R&D team
* 26 tutorials are now provided in separate plumbery-contribs project at GitHub
* Introduce deployment parameters (location, domain name, network name, ...)
* Add tutorial on log consolidation (ELK)
* Add tutorial on disk orchestration (standard, high-performance, economy)
* Secure SSH communications in most tutorials (no password, no root access)
* Add virtual storage to many tutorials
* Derive regionId from locationId to streamline fittings plan
* Add action 'refresh' to ease iterations in fittings plan
* Add option -p to load parameters from the command line
* Accept web links for fittings plan and for parameters file
* Restructure code to accomodate for more complex data processing
* Fix multiple bugs and errors
* Augment test coverage
* Improve information provided in debug mode
* Passing Travis CI
* 3286 python statements
* Test coverage 53%

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* A total of 24 various tutorials is provided
* Enhance tutorials on Docker and Kubernetes with virtual storage, SSH keys, class-based definition, and updated tutorial
* Add tutorial on iTop, an open source solution for ITIL management
* Add the management of virtual disks, including tiered storage
* Add tutorial showing partitioning, formatting and mounting of virtual disks
* Enhance the usage documentation page
* Accept pseudo-target of blueprints
* Add classes of nodes to streamline large deployments
* Include the library of Customer Images
* Normalize information reported by the 'inventory' command
* Expose geolocalisation information to nodes if needed
* Generalize the usage of 'information:' to support active documentation of fittings plans
* Put fittings plan in context with the new 'links:' directive
* Reduce requirements in fittings plan passed as a Python dictionary
* Add power off as secondary mechanism to stop nodes, when graceful shutdown is not enough
* Allow for CPU and memory dynamic reconfiguration
* Add option -s to run plumbery in safe mode from the command line
* Report on time spent in the cloud while working
* Fix multiple bugs and errors
* Augment test coverage
* Improve information provided in debug mode
* Passing Travis CI
* 3121 python statements
* Test coverage 50%

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* Add tutorials on Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm -- DevOps
* Add tutorial to create a Stackstorm server -- DevOps too
* Add tutorial to create a swarm of pingers with MQTT and Kibana -- IOT is coming
* A total of 23 various tutorials is provided
* Enhance the documentation accordingly
* Enhance the documentation page on cloud-config
* Add help for Windows users
* Add the generation of uuid when needed (ceph cluster)
* Add the capability to assign public IPv4 when needed (automatic mode)
* Expand information reported by the 'inventory' command
* Now support settings for a proxy for all interactions with API endpoints
* Restructure code and improve performance with better cache
* Fix multiple bugs and errors
* Improve information provided in debug mode
* Passing Travis CI
* 2769 python statements
* Test coverage 48%

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* Provision of an advanced tutorial that demonstrates most interesting features
* A total of 18 various tutorials is provided
* Enhance the documentation accordingly
* Leverage cloud-init with global directives shared by all nodes
* Extend dynamic variables to random, on-demand RSA keys
* Enforce password-free communications, and ipv6 communications
* Add actions 'wipe' and 'secrets'
* Restructure code and consolidate functions
* Fix multiple bugs and errors
* Expand information provided in debug mode
* Passing Travis CI
* 2717 python statements
* Test coverage 47%

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* Add cloud-init for node contextualisation
* Inject dynamic variables (e.g., node addresses) to node contextualisation
* Generate and store random secrets for secured node contextualisation
* Enhance usage page in the documentation
* Add a full pack of tutorials in the on-line documentation
* Add actions 'deploy' and 'dispose' to streamline usage
* Add polishers 'ping' and 'information'
* Restructure code and consolidate functions
* Fix multiple bugs and errors
* Expand information provided in debug mode
* Passing Travis CI
* Test coverage 47%

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* Add tutorials to the documentation
* Fix some errors
* Expand information provided in debug mode
* Passing Travis CI
* Test coverage 39%