Salt-nornir

CHANGES

1. Added pursenmp and pynetbox into "nr.nornir version" call output
2. Improved "\n" newline and "\\n" escaped newline handling for inline salt cli arguments to address issue 21

FEATURES

1. Added execution module nr.netbox function to enable various interactions between Netbox and Nornir
2. Added support to honour "jinja_env" configuration for proxy minion rendering to address issue 21
3. Added "multiline" argument to nr.cfg_gen function to return either as single multiline string or a list of commands
4. Added support to supply any arbitrary data for rendering using "job_data" argument, that is to keep pillar data small,
allowing to load any parameters from files on demand for rendering within templates
5. Added capability to define Nornir "user_defined" configuration in Salt-Nornir proxy pillar under "configuration" key.

TESTING

1. Tested 0.15.0 release with SaltStack 3005 - all 389 tests are passing.

FEATURES

1. Added nr.snmp execution module function to manage devices over SNMP

BUGS

1. Fixed execution module nr.cfg and nr.cfg_gen to accept "commands" argument
2. State module nr.workflow fixed handling of FL as a string in common filters, "FL": "ceos1" was not working before
3. State module nr.workflow hcache/dcache handling improved to only target hosts that have been matched by workflow filters, previously was clearing cache for all hosts unconditionaly

CHANGES

1. Test docker environment updated to start salt-api process for salt-master machine
2. Added tests for salt-api cherrypy
3. nrp3 and fakenos inventories updated to spun up 402 Arista fake hosts for stress testing
4. Improved state module nr.workflow logging

CHANGES

1. nr.nc execution module function improvement to render "rpc" argument value, added nr.nc custom render argument list - 11

CHANGES

0. Deprecated Python 3.6 support, pinned requirement for Python >=3.7,<4.0