Release v0.18.0

[klausw]

We're starting release v0.18.0. List of outstanding PRs targeted for this release:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/milestones/v0.18.0

If you have anything targeting this release that is not yet included in this list, please add it to the milestone.

[klausw]

Cutting the release now since there's no more open issues / PRs targeting the 0.18.0 milestone. Please speak up if you feel something is missing.

[klausw]

Release v0.18.0 notes:

(See also #369
which includes this change log with clickable GH-* links.)

• New features:
  • Support OpenStack as cloud provider (Openstack integration #305, kivio openstack integration merge + tweaks #353, thanks @kivio and
    @mateusz-blaszkowski)
  • Support Rackspace as cloud provider (Rackspace support #336, thanks @meteorfox and @jrperritt)
  • Add support for ContainerizedVM using docker exec (Adding support to ContainerizedVM #333, thanks @gablg1)
  • Windows guest VM support on Static VM (Add Windows support to Static VM #350), Azure (Add windows support to azure #349, Fix a few problems with Windows on Azure #374), AWS
    (Add windows support to AWS #347), and GCE (Windows on GCE #338)
  • Add NTttcp Windows networking benchmark (Add NTttcp benchmark #348)
• Enhancements:
  • Support using proxies in VMs (Move cassandra_ycsb num_vms prerequisite check #339, Proxy config fixup for bad merge. #337, thanks @kivio)
  • Enable optional migration on GCE (Enable optional migration on GCE. No change to default. #343)
  • Execute long running commands via a remote agent (Execute long running commands via a remote agent. #310)
  • Add resource creation/deletion times to logs (Add resource creation/deletion times #316)
• Bugfixes and maintenance updates:
  • Update PKB to work with Azure version 0.9.3 (Update PKB to work with Azure version 0.9.3 #312)
  • Fix AWS CLI usage on Windows host (Fix aws on windows #313)
  • Auto-fetch AMI IDs for AWS images (Use 'describe-images' to get ami ids #364)
  • Fix publisher missing info for default image and machine type (Fix publisher #357)
  • Fix 'no attribute pkb_thread_log_context' error for sub-thread logs (Fix 'no attribute pkb_thread_log_context' error for sub-thread logs #322)
• Benchmark-specific changes:
  • aerospike: config/flag handling bugfixes (Fix bug in aerospike #367, Aerospike: Use vm.num_cpus where recommended. #360, Aerospike service-threads and transaction-queues should match vm.num_cpus #354)
  • cassandra_ycsb: move num_vms prerequisite check
  • fio: add latency percentiles for results (Add latency percentiles for fio results. #344)
  • hadoop_terasort: Fix bad SSH option (Fix a bad SSH option in hadoop_terasort. #328)
  • iperf: add lower bounds to arguments (Add lower bounds to iperf arguments. #314)
  • iperf: add timeout to parallel benchmark runs to handle iperf hangs (Add a timeout to iperf parallel benchmark runs to handle iperf hangs #375)
  • netperf: Support confidence intervals, increase test length, report stddev
    (netperf: Support confidence intervals, increase test length, report stddev #317, Increase test duration for netperf benchmarks #306)
  • ycsb: Drop unaggregatable results from samples (Drop unaggregatable results from YCSB samples. #324)
• Development and testing:
  • Breaking Change Automated testing now uses tox (Add tox.ini #330)
  • Refactored hook scripts, including new opt-in pre-push hook (Refactor hooks, add opt-in pre-push hook. #363)
  • Use travis for CI testing (Add travis.yml #340)
  • Speed up tests using timeouts (Speed up tests for IssueCommand timeout handling. #299)
• Internals:
  • Move defaults from benchmark_spec to VM classes, move network instantiation
    out of benchmark spec (Move defaults from benchmark_spec to vm classes #342)
  • Add event hook support (Add event support #315)
  • Refactor VM classes (Refactor VM classes #321)

[cmccoy]

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