Pulp Year in Review 2023 & Look Ahead

Agenda

• Community & Project News
• Accomplishments
• Look Ahead

Community & Project News

• Matrix - Libera.chat portaling broken
• Weekly pulpcore release cadence starting with 3.25
• galaxy.ansible.com is now backed by Pulp
• pulp_installer EOL
• Ansible-based pulp-operator to become galaxy-operator
• Upgraded to Django 4.2 LTS
• Telemetry [correctly] renamed to Analytics
• pulp_file merged into pulpcore with 3.40

Accomplishments

• Domains*
• Flatpak support*
• Revived Maven* and Gem plugins and developed them further
• Deployment* improvements and simplification
• Investments in OSTree

* PulpCon talk - check out the schedule

Accomplishments

• Performance* improvements and optimizations:
  • import/export
  • lots of content
  • reduce memory usage
• OpenTelemetry*
• Point of Presence
  • Replicate pulp repositories and distributions

* PulpCon talk - check out the schedule

Notable enhancements or changes

• bug fixes, hardening
• more pulpcore-manager commands
  • e.g. remove-signing-service, db encryption key rotation, etc
• more data reporting to analytics
  • e.g. postgesql version, rbac/domains
• improved upload experience
• support complex filter expressions
• improved labels management
• RBAC extended to more areas/plugins
• status endpoint reports more information
• pulp-cli
• What else? Feel free to drop them in the chat

Look Ahead

• PulpCon schedule this week

• Investment in deploying Pulp as a container & operationalizing Pulp

• Responsiveness to stakeholder & community feedback

Thank you!

Where to find us:

• Pulp website
  • Pulp Community Discourse
    • Please post to give us feedback
  • pulp on Matrix
  • Report issues by creating github issues & fixes welcome!