Merge "Add release notes for Newton blueprints"

releasenotes/notes/add-plugins-parameters-376eb6b0b8978b44.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a standard way to both declare and fetch
+    configuration options so that whenever the
+    administrator generates the Watcher
+    configuration sample file, it contains the
+    configuration options of the plugins that are
+    currently available.

releasenotes/notes/add-scoring-module-fa00d013ed2d614e.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a generic scoring engine module, which
+    will standarize interactions with scoring engines
+    through the common API. It is possible to use the
+    scoring engine by different Strategies, which
+    improve the code and data model re-use.

releasenotes/notes/cluster-model-objects-wrapper-9c799ea262c56a5b.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added an in-memory cache of the cluster model
+    built up and kept fresh via notifications from
+    services of interest in addition to periodic
+    syncing logic.

releasenotes/notes/configurable-weights-default-planner-3746b33160bc7347.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a way to add a new action without having to
+    amend the source code of the default planner.

releasenotes/notes/continuously-optimization-35364f4d2c0b81fc.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a way to create periodic audit to be able to
+    optimize continuously the cloud infrastructure.

releasenotes/notes/efficacy-indicator-95380ad7b84e3be2.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a way to compare the efficacy of different
+    strategies for a give optimization goal.

releasenotes/notes/get-goal-from-strategy-396c9b13a38bb650.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a way to return the of available goals depending
+    on which strategies have been deployed on the node
+    where the decison engine is running.

releasenotes/notes/optimization-threshold-21ad38f0470d0e1a.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Allow decision engine to pass strategy parameters,
+    like optimization threshold, to selected strategy,
+    also strategy to provide parameters info to end user.

releasenotes/notes/persistent-audit-parameters-ae41dd7252ba9672.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Copy all audit templates parameters into
+    audit instead of having a reference to the
+    audit template.
+

releasenotes/notes/standard-deviation-strategy-cd1d0c443fdfde9c.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a strategy that monitors if there is a higher
+    load on some hosts compared to other hosts in the
+    cluster and re-balances the work across hosts to
+    minimize the standard deviation of the loads in
+    the cluster.

releasenotes/notes/uniform-airflow-strategy-68cdba1419c3f770.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a new strategy based on the airflow
+    of servers. This strategy makes decisions
+    to migrate VMs to make the airflow uniform.

releasenotes/notes/watcher-policies-1e86a30f0f11c6fa.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added policies to handle user rights
+    to access Watcher API.

releasenotes/notes/workload-balance-migration-strategy-a0b05148a57815c0.yaml

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+---
+features:
+  - Added a strategy based on the VM workloads of
+    hypervisors. This strategy makes decisions to
+    migrate workloads to make the total VM workloads
+    of each hypervisor balanced, when the total VM
+    workloads of hypervisor reaches threshold.