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Branko Majic (branko) - 3 years ago 2021-01-12 05:00:43
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MAR-160: Update release notes, usage instructions, and role reference documentation:

- Describe the maintenance and maintenance_allowed_hosts parameters
for the common role.

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@@ @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ Release notes @@
 NEXT RELEASE
 ------------
 **New features/improvements:**
 * ``common`` role
   * Added parameters ``maintenance`` and ``maintenance_allowed_hosts``
     for enabling maintenance mode. In maintenance mode only the listed
     hosts are allowed to connect to the server.
 **Bug fixes:**
 * ``wsgi_website_`` role

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   higher than ``incoming_connection_limit``), even if it would go above the
   specified connection limit.
 **maintenance** (boolean, optional, ``False``)
   Specifies if maintenance mode should be enabled or not. In
   maintenance mode incoming TCP connections are allowed only from
   explicitly listed hosts (see ``maintenance_allowed_hosts``
   parameter). All ports are covered by this rule, with sole exception
   being the TCP port 22 (SSH). The SSH port is never blocked via
   maintenance mode.
 **maintenance_allowed_hosts** (list, optional,  ``[]``)
   List of hosts that should be allowed to connect to the server when
   in maintenance mode.
 **ntp_servers** (list, optional, ``[]``)
   List of NTP servers to use for synchronising the time on managed
   machine using NTP. If no time synchronisation should be set-up, set

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 properly. This includes set-up of some shared accounts, perhaps some hardening
 etc.
 .. note::
    Should you ever need to limit what hosts can connect to a server
    for some kind of maintenance or upgrade purposes, the ``common``
    role comes with ``maintenance`` and ``maintenance_allowed_hosts``
    parameters. See :ref:`rolereference` for more information.
 Let's take care of this common configuration right away:
 . Create playbook for the communications server:

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