RightLink v10.5.0 Release

New Features

  • Improved Managed Login functionality for RightLink 10.5 and higher. With the new managed login feature, RightLink 10 leverages an open-source NSS plugin to authorize users from RightScale roles (server_login and server_superuser) and authenticate users using their keys stored in RightScale. Every user has a system-provided login name and can create a preferred login name in their User Settings under SSH. Read more on the RightLink 10 Managed SSH Login page.
  • Added support for $RS_PACKAGES env variable for RightScripts which allows you to efficiently invoke your package manager to install all packages required by your RightScripts. Read more on the RightLink10 Script Execution page.
  • Bug fixes for Docker support, Start event, and Docker Import

For additional detail and documentation on this release, please refer to the following release notes.

Self-Service

New Features

  • CAT Imports is now available, allowing you to create package CATs that can be imported into other CATs, enabling code reuse and best practices implementation. You can read more about how it works on the Packaging CATs docs page. Please note that this requires using a new CAT Version and associated RCL Version that both contain breaking changes. Details on the changes are listed on the CAT Changelog and the RCL Changelog pages.
  • Support for escaped characters and shorthand classes in RCL regex

Cloud Management

New Features

  • Improved Managed Login functionality for RightLink 10.5 and higher. With the new managed login feature, RightLink 10 leverages an open-source NSS plugin to authorize users from RightScale roles (server_login and server_superuser) and authenticate users using their keys stored in RightScale. Every user has a system-provided login name and can create a preferred login name in their User Settings under SSH. Read more on the RightLink 10 Managed SSH Login page.