[BETA] Version 0.3.1.0007 released!

[zhenrong-wang]

Information security is the top issue.
IMPORTANT: This upgrade is not compatible with 0.2.x

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Main Changes:

1. Your SSH private key is encrypted and protected.

As you may know, the HPC-NOW generates and manages SSH keys for you to connect with the cloud clusters. SSH private keys are sensitive, especially the global operator private key in the SSH_KEY_FOLDER:

• For Microsoft Windows: C:\Programdata\hpc-now\now-ssh
• For GNU/Linux: /usr/.hpc-now/.now-ssh
• For macOS (Darwin): /Applications/.hpc-now/.now-ssh

Previously, the private keys were hidden, but not encrypted. Now, with this release, the private keys will be encrypted locally.

2. New commands added.

For developers, we introduced 2 important commands: hpcopr encrypt and hpcopr decrypt. These 2 commands are convenient for users to decrypt sensitive files of one or several clusters. Therefore, users can check the TF files, cloud secrets, as well as cluster users' passwords easily.

However, the hpcopr decrypt command is VERY RISKY!!!, and WE DO NOT RECOMMEND USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW ALL THE CONSEQUENCES VERY CLEARLY:

• The cloud secrets will be decrypted to the vault directory
• The user passwords will be decrypted to the vault directory
• The Terraform/openTofu files containing sensitive information will be decrypted to the stack directory
• The users SSH private keys will be decrypted to the cluster's sshkey folder under SSH_KEY_FOLDER

Please do encrypt the decrypted files by using hpcopr encrypt as soon as possible.

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We also added a CONTRIBUTING.md to this project, looking forward to your feedback and contributions!

HPC-NOW: Start your HPC journey in the cloud now.

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