Notify the admin if there's a new IsardVDI available version

[NefixEstrada]

It would be nice if IsardVDI checked if there were newer versions available. An example would be "a cron job" that ran once per day checking the latest GitHub release. Then, a banner would appear saying that there's an update available.

Some options would appear:

• Never remind me again -> it would stop the cronjob and close the banner
• Ignore this release -> would just close the banner
• Remind me later -> would close the banner and open it 4 hours after
• Update -> would update automatically IsardVDI

[jvinolas]

This is a must. But we should work a bit how the version is detected. I mean, there should be a version coded somewhere in the client and also in github. I see the github release detection but we should agree where to store current client version.

[jvinolas]

the cron could be an scheduler, as we already have it in webapp

[jvinolas]

We could just get the tag_name? And for local checking use the subprocess

import subprocess
label = subprocess.check_output(["git", "describe"]).strip()

But then the isard-app image should add git.

Also it is possible to do in subprocess a git pull (update) and a reboot of the container to fully automate the upgrade through the UI. We should take care to do a database backup and bring a method to go back (git checkout latest version and restore db).

curl "https://api.github.com/repos/isard-vdi/isard/releases/latest"
{
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/isard-vdi/isard/releases/15792933",
"assets_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/isard-vdi/isard/releases/15792933/assets",
"upload_url": "https://uploads.github.com/repos/isard-vdi/isard/releases/15792933/assets{?name,label}",
"html_url": "https://github.com/isard-vdi/isard/releases/tag/1.1.0",
"id": 15792933,
"node_id": "MDc6UmVsZWFzZTE1NzkyOTMz",
"tag_name": "1.1.0",
"target_commitish": "master",
"name": "1.1.0",
"draft": false,
"author": {
"login": "NefixEstrada",
"id": 22214853,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIyMjE0ODUz",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/22214853?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada",
"html_url": "https://github.com/NefixEstrada",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/NefixEstrada/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"prerelease": false,
"created_at": "2019-02-26T22:07:50Z",
"published_at": "2019-02-26T22:09:38Z",
"assets": [

],
"tarball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/isard-vdi/isard/tarball/1.1.0",
"zipball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/isard-vdi/isard/zipball/1.1.0",
"body": "## [1.1.0] - 2019-02-26 | Canigó\r\n\r\n### Added\r\n- Support under VMWare #98\r\n- Support on AMD cpu #98\r\n- Permissions on templates and bases in admin mode #118\r\n- Delete templates and bases with all the derived desktops and templates (admin mode) #114\r\n- Complete domain chain in domain dictionary #78\r\n- Delete media will delete the media in all domains #111\r\n\r\n### Changed\r\n- Force host-passthrough cpu mode in domains for better compatibility #101\r\n- Swapped wizard steps hypervisor and engine as makes more sense to check first the engine. #81\r\n- Domain status engine detection now done using stats thread. Not relaying only in libvirt events. #120\r\n\r\n### Fixed\r\n- On physical host reboot the hypervisor docker gets online again. #119\r\n- Media status correctly shown in web interface. #110\r\n- Post installation updates register now works. #109\r\n- Admin base and template modals not shown. #112\r\n- Restart download when failed #91\r\n- Delete process is now more atomic and will delete domain from database even if there are problems during disk delete. #117\r\n\r\n### Removed\r\n- Windows install checkbox on creating domain. Not needed anymore. #115\r\n- Global actions removed from templates and bases as are not needed there. #116\r\n"

[fgonzalezmacias]

I think it would be interesting to go back to this topic and finally implement it

Thanks

[fgonzalezmacias]

I think a goo site to show the general version and a version for each container of IsardVDi, is the About page

[jvinolas]

Feel free to reopen it at gitlab.

Issues from now on will only be held at https://gitlab.com/isard/isardvdi/-/issues