Platform v7.3-Release Description

Design Studio – Redesigned for a better user experience

In this release, the Design Studio in Creator Studio is revamped to provide a better user experience.

Here are some of the key new features:

• Full width drawing board

• Auto arranged workflows, simplifying viewing experience for complex workflows

• Ability to group nodes
  

• Movable workflow and microaction palette
  

• Highlight neighbors for a selected node

• Preview mode
  

• Option to select different line styles
  

• Zoom in/zoom out with clarity

RHub 0.5

In this release, following features are introduced to enhance RHub capability:

• Plug-in custom adapters that can be programmatically added for specific integrations such as ServiceNow.

• Authentication adapter based on the available client certificate

• Trigger a flow using RHub, from a queue that is configured inside customer network

• JSON transformation adapter to transform the source JSON structure to target JSON structure

• Core Stabilization – 

  • Improved error handling of RHub and Adapters 

  • Enhancement in logging of RHub and Adapters 

  • Implemented health check APIs 

  • Enhancements in flow execution 

  • Build and deployment automation of RHub and Adapters using Jenkins

Zero Downtime Upgrades for AKS cluster

Seamless AKS cluster upgrades can now be done with zero downtime for all critical services.

Product Composition

Ability to deploy different flavours of the same product by including/excluding specific component stacks.  For example, a Deployment Engineer may package and install install multiple variants of Smart Vision product in different ways in environments and regions. Some possibilities are:

• DU Trainer + Smart Extract in Stage

• DU Trainer + Smart Extract + VESPA in QA

• Smart Extract only in Prod

Full width screens in SmartOps application

SmartOps application now uses a full width layout, instead of the container-tube layout. This brings in better space utilization and consistency in user experience across the application.

Reliability & Performance Enhancements in Orchestration

In this release, we continue to improve the reliability and performance of workflow execution in SmartOps. Following are the key features introduced.

• Reliable execution of Workflows in Queued Status - Reliable Execution of workflows in Queued Status allows for transparent reprocessing of messages that occasionally get stuck in the "Queued" status due to engine restart or failure.

• Change in Workflow execution logs from MySQL to Elastic Search - Change in Workflow execution logs from MySQL to ES helps in reducing the load on MySQL database. This helps in improving workflow execution times as well as making the archival of logs easier.

• Concurrency Policy for Scheduled Workflows – With Concurrency Policy for Scheduled Workflows, users can specify whether a new run of a scheduled workflow should be triggered in case a previous execution is still running, or whether it should be skipped based on the functional requirement.

Enhancements in Packaged Workflow Framework

In this release, following features are introduced to enhance the PWF framework in SmartOps.

• Ability to manage master configuration for all PWFs in the master admin view

• Audit trail for master configuration and project configuration changes in SmartOps PWFs

• Ability to store and retrieve PWF versions

• PWF specific roles and permission in an Organization

• Ability to remove PWF specific roles and mapping from Keycloak when a PWF is de-associated/disabled from an Organization.

• Clones-upgrade container is enhanced to apply changes specific to the PWF/instance

• Automatic rollback of Keycloak upgrade program if any error occurs

• Ability to integrate updated project delete statuses with PWFs and use it in project delete workflows.

Build time for UI containers reduced by up to 90%

Multi-stage docker build configured with optimal usage of cache to reduce build times by up to 90%.

Support for Staggered Releases

In this release, additional features required to support staggered releases have been added.

• Each PWF can be configured to enable deployment from a project JSON which will have details of the component stack and stack version to be used

• CI/CD architecture is revised to support staggered releases

• Enabled rollout of staggered release into higher environments

• Segregation of skill dump

• Separation of Liquibase script

 

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