docs(README): Define the new location of ProxLB at credativ

Updated README to reflect the new location of the ProxLB project and removed outdated sections.

.changelogs/1.0.4/75_fix_cpu_balancing.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix CPU balancing where calculations are done in float instead of int. (by @glitchvern) [#75]

.changelogs/1.0.4/89_add_version_output.yml

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+added:
+  - Add version output cli arg. [#89]

.changelogs/1.0.4/91_make_api_timeout_configureable.yml

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+added:
+  - Add feature to make API timeout configureable. [#91]

.changelogs/1.0.4/release_meta.yml

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-date: TBD
+date: 2024-10-11

.changelogs/1.0.5/104_docs_bool_adjustment.yml

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+changed:
+  - Change docs to make bool usage in configs more clear (by @gyptazy). [#104]

.changelogs/1.0.5/106_fix_maintenance_mode_compare_str_list.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix evaluation of maintenance mode where comparing list & string resulted in a crash (by @glitchvern). [#106]

.changelogs/1.0.5/107_fix_offline_node_eval.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix node (and its objects) evaluation when not reachable, e.g., maintenance (by @gyptazy). [#107]

.changelogs/1.0.5/113_fix_migration_from_local_disk.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix migration from local disks (by @greenlogles). [#113]

.changelogs/1.0.5/98_fix_log_verbosity_opts.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix allowed values (add DEBUG, WARNING) for log verbosity (by @gyptazy). [#98]

.changelogs/1.0.5/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2024-10-30

.changelogs/1.0.6/115_fix_daemon_scheduler_bool_time_fix.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix that a scheduler time definition of 1 (int) gets wrongly interpreted as a bool (by @gyptazy). [#115]

.changelogs/1.0.6/119_fix_maintenance_mode_cli_and_config.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix maintenance mode when using cli arg and config mode by using the merged list (by @CartCaved). [#119]

.changelogs/1.0.6/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2024-12-24

.changelogs/1.1.0/114_refactor_code_base.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Refactored code base for ProxLB [#114]
+  - Switched to `pycodestyle` for linting [#114]
+  - Package building will be done within GitHub actions pipeline [#114]
+  - ProxLB now only returns a warning when no guests for further balancing are not present (instead of quitting) [132#]
+  - All nodes (according to the free resources) will be used now [#130]
+  - Fixed logging outputs where highest/lowest were mixed-up [#129]
+  - Stop balancing when movement would get worste (new force param to enfoce for affinity rules) [#128]
+  - Added requested documentation regarding Proxmox HA groups [#127]
+  - Rewrite of the whole affinity/anti-affinity rules evaluation and placement [#123]
+  - Fixed the `ignore` parameter for nodes where the node and guests on the node will be untouched [#102]

.changelogs/1.1.0/125-add-proxmox-api-authentication-support.yml

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+feature:
+  - Add Proxmox API authentication support. [#125]

.changelogs/1.1.0/137_fix_systemd_unit_file.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix the systemd unit file to start ProxLB after pveproxy (by @robertdahlem). [#137]

.changelogs/1.1.0/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-04-01

.changelogs/1.1.1/163_fix_ignore_vm_tag.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix tag evluation for VMs for being ignored for further balancing [#163]

.changelogs/1.1.1/165_improve_logging_servity.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Improve logging verbosity of messages that had a wrong servity [#165]

.changelogs/1.1.1/168_add_more_flexible_schedules.yml

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+feature:
+  - Add a more flexible way to define schedules in minutes or hours (by @gyptazy) [#168]

.changelogs/1.1.1/171_set_correct_python_path_docker_image.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix Python path for Docker entrypoint (by @crandler) [#170]

.changelogs/1.1.1/174_honor_balancing_activation_value.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Honor the value when balancing should not be performed and stop balancing [#174]

.changelogs/1.1.1/176_change_turn_daemon_mode_on_default.yml

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+changed:
+  - Change the default behaviour of the daemon mode to active [#176]

.changelogs/1.1.1/180_change_default_balancing_to_used_instead_assigned.yml

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+changed:
+  - Change the default banalcing mode to used instead of assigned [#180]

.changelogs/1.1.1/184_validate_for_sufficient_user_permissions.yml

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+feature:
+  - Add validation for the minimum required permissions of a user in Proxmox [#184]

.changelogs/1.1.1/185-logging-handler-for-no-systemd-integration.yml

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+fix:
+  - add handler to log messages with severity less than info to the screen when there is no systemd integration, for instance, inside a docker container (by @glitchvern) [#185]

.changelogs/1.1.1/187_allow_use_of_minutes_instead_of_hours.yml

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+fixed:
+  - allow the use of minutes instead of hours and only accept hours or minutes in the format (by @glitchvern) [#187]

.changelogs/1.1.1/195_set_cpu_used_to_cpu_usage_times_core_count.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Set cpu_used to the cpu usage, which is a percent, times the total number of cores to get a number where guest cpu_used can be added to nodes cpu_used and be meaningful (by @glitchvern) [#195]

.changelogs/1.1.1/197_remove_hard_coded_memory_usage_from_lowest_usage_node.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Remove hard coded memory usage from lowest usage node and use method and mode specified in configuration instead (by @glitchvern) [#197]

.changelogs/1.1.1/200_requery_zero_guest_cpu_used.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Requery a guest if that running guest reports 0 cpu usage (by @glitchvern) [#200]

.changelogs/1.1.1/204_fix_migration_log_relationship_of_guest_type.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix the guest type relationship in the logs when a migration job failed (by @gyptazy) [#204]

.changelogs/1.1.1/205_add_api_upstream_error_message_on_migration_failure.yml

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+added:
+  - Providing the API upstream error message when migration fails in debug mode (by @gyptazy) [#205]

.changelogs/1.1.1/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-04-20

.changelogs/1.1.10/335-prevalidate-affinity-matrix.yml

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+added:
+  - Prevent redundant rebalancing by validating existing affinity enforcement before taking actions (@gyptazy). [#335]

.changelogs/1.1.10/359-add-pve8-user-protections-for-conntrack-aware-migrations.yml

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+added:
+  - Add safety-guard for PVE 8 users when activating conntrack-aware migrations mistakenly (@gyptazy). [#359]

.changelogs/1.1.10/361_fix_proxmox_api_connection_validation.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed the Proxmox API connection validation which returned a false-positive logging message of timeouts (@gyptazy). [#361]
+  - Refactored Proxmox API connection functions

.changelogs/1.1.10/368_fix_crash_enumerating_pools_with_storage_members.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed a crash during PVE resource pool enumeration by skipping members not having a 'name' property (@stefanoettl). [#368]

.changelogs/1.1.10/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-11-25

.changelogs/1.1.11/275_add_overprovisioning_safety_guard.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed missing overprovisioning safety guard to avoid node overprovisioning (@gyptazy). [#275]

.changelogs/1.1.11/335_fix_affinity_matrix_prevalidation.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed affinity matrix pre-validation by inverting validations (@Thalagyrt). [#335]

.changelogs/1.1.11/373_add_node_resource_reservation_support.yml

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+added:
+  - Add resource reservation support for PVE nodes (@Chipmonk2). [#373]

.changelogs/1.1.11/378_change_and_improve_balancing_decisions.yml

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+changed:
+  - Changed balancing and sorting behaviour (@gyptazy). [#378]
+  - Balancing objects will be ordered by: count of objects in affinity-rules, followed by memory size 

.changelogs/1.1.11/387_select_balancing_workloads_by_size.yml

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+added:
+  - Add possibility to sort and select balancing workloads by smaller/larger guest objects (@gyptazy). [#387]

.changelogs/1.1.11/391_add_native_proxmox_ha_rules_support.yml

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+added:
+  - Add support for Proxmox's native HA (affinity/anti-affinity) rules (@gyptazy). [#391]
+  - Add support for Proxmox's native HA (node-affinity) rules for pinning guests to nodes (@gyptazy). [#391]

.changelogs/1.1.11/395_fix_pool_based_node_pinning.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed pool based node pinning (@gyptazy). [#395]

.changelogs/1.1.11/402_add_ha_job_validation.yml

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+added:
+  - Add HA job validation for migration jobs (@gytazy). [#402]

.changelogs/1.1.11/406_add_stricness_for_node_pinning_of_pools.yml

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+added:
+  - Add support for configuring node-pinning strictness (default: true) within pools (@gyptazy). [#406]

.changelogs/1.1.11/408_fix_moving_ignored_guests.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed that ignored VMs/CTs got moved to another node when being ignored (@gyptazy). [#408]

.changelogs/1.1.11/414_add_pinning_enforcement.yml

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+added:
+  - Add new option to enforce node/guest pinning even when cluster is balanced from a resource perspective (@gyptazy). [#414]

.changelogs/1.1.11/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2026-01-12

.changelogs/1.1.12/420_fix_psi_based_balancing_key_error.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix PSI based balancing which resulted in a Python KeyError (@gyptazy). [#420]

.changelogs/1.1.12/release_meta.yml

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+date: TBD

.changelogs/1.1.2/137_fix_systemd_unit_file.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix systemd unit file to run after network on non PVE nodes (by @robertdahlem) [#137]

.changelogs/1.1.2/157_add_proxmox_api_retry_mechanism.yml

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+added:
+  - Add a configurable retry mechanism when connecting to the Proxmox API (by @gyptazy) [#157]

.changelogs/1.1.2/218_add_1_to_one_relationship_guest_node_pinning.yml

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+added:
+  - Add 1-to-1 relationships between guest and hypervisor node to ping a guest on a node (by @gyptazy) [#218]

.changelogs/1.1.2/222_fix_force_type_cast_cpu_metrics_to_int.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Force type cast cpu count of guests to int for some corner cases where a str got returned (by @gyptazy). [#222]

.changelogs/1.1.2/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-05-13

.changelogs/1.1.3/189_add_reload_function.yml

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+added:
+  - Add relaod (SIGHUP) function to ProxLB to reload the configuration (by @gyptazy). [#189]

.changelogs/1.1.3/232_align_maintenance_mode_proxmox_ha.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Align maintenance mode with Proxmox HA maintenance mode (by @gyptazy). [#232]

.changelogs/1.1.3/239_add_optional_delay_time_until_service_starts.yml

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+added:
+  - Add optional wait time parameter to delay execution until the service takes action (by @gyptazy). #239

.changelogs/1.1.3/241_make_amount_of_parallel_migrations_configurable.yml

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+added:
+  - Make the amount of parallel migrations configurable (by @gyptazy). [#241]

.changelogs/1.1.3/94_cpu_balancing_use_avg_instead_current_consumption.yml

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+changed:
+  - Use the average CPU consumption of a guest within the last 60 minutes instead of the current CPU usage (by @philslab-ninja & @gyptazy). [#94]

.changelogs/1.1.3/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-06-19

.changelogs/1.1.4/245_add_guest_pinning_to_groups_of_nodes.yml

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+added:
+  - Allow pinning of guests to a group of nodes (@gyptazy). [#245]

.changelogs/1.1.4/248_fix_dry_run_combination_balancing_disabled.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fixed an issue where balancing was performed in combination of deactivated balancing and dry-run mode (@gyptazy). [#248]

.changelogs/1.1.4/255_fix_loglevels.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Modified log levels to make output lighter at INFO level (@pmarasse) [#255]

.changelogs/1.1.4/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-06-27

.changelogs/1.1.5/260_allow_custom_api_ports.yml

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+added:
+  - Allow custom API ports instead of fixed tcp/8006 (@gyptazy). [#260]

.changelogs/1.1.5/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-07-14

.changelogs/1.1.6/268_fix_balancing_type_eval.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix balancing evaluation of guest types (e.g., VM or CT) (@gyptazy). [#268]

.changelogs/1.1.6/290_validate_user_token_syntax.yml

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+added:
+  - Add validation for provided API user token id to avoid confusions (@gyptazy). [#291]

.changelogs/1.1.6/291_fix_stack_trace_no_user_permissions_testing.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix stacktrace output when validating permissions on non existing users in Proxmox (@gyptazy). [#291]

.changelogs/1.1.6/295_fix_overprovisioning_first_node_if_anti_affinity_group_has_only_one-member.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix Overprovisioning first node if anti_affinity_group has only one member (@MiBUl-eu). [#295]
+  

.changelogs/1.1.6/296_fix_validate_node_presence_when_pinning_guests.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Validate for node presence when pinning guests to avoid crashing (@gyptazy). [#296]
+  

.changelogs/1.1.6/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-09-04

.changelogs/1.1.7/304_add_graceful_shutdown_sigint.yml

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+added:
+  - Add graceful shutdown for SIGINT (e.g., CTRL + C abort). (@gyptazy). [#304]

.changelogs/1.1.7/305_add_conntrack_support_for_migrations.yml

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+added:
+  - Add conntrack state aware migrations of VMs (@gyptazy). [#305]

.changelogs/1.1.7/308_fix_only_validate_valid_jobids.yml

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+fixed:
+  - Fix crash when validating absent migration job ids. (@gyptazy). [#308]

.changelogs/1.1.7/310_guest-object-names-not-being-evaluated-in-log.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+fixed:
+  - Fix guest object names are not being evaluated in debug log. (@gyptazy). [#310]

.changelogs/1.1.7/release_meta.yml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+date: 2025-09-19

.changelogs/1.1.8/317_container_image_non_root.yml

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+changed:
+  - Container image does not run as root anymore (@mikaelkrantz945). [#317]
+  - Container image uses venv for running ProxLB (@mikaelkrantz945). [#317]

.changelogs/1.1.8/318_fix_conntrack_aware_migrations_api_pve8.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+fixed:
+  - Fix API errors when using conntrack aware migration with older PVE versions (@gyptazy). [#318]

.changelogs/1.1.8/329_add_log_prefix.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+fixed:
+  - Add a static ProxLB prefix to the log output when used by journal handler (@gyptazy). [#329]

.changelogs/1.1.8/release_meta.yml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+date: 2025-10-09

.changelogs/1.1.9/337_add_pressure_based_balancing.yml

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+added:
+  - Add pressure (PSI) based balancing for memory, cpu, disk (req. PVE9 or greater) (@gyptazy). [#337]
+  - Pressure (PSI) based balancing for nodes
+  - Pressure (PSI) based balancing for guests
+  - Add PVE version evaluation

.changelogs/1.1.9/342_add_memory_balancing_threshold.yml

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+added:
+  - Add an optional memory balancing threshold (@gyptazy). [#342]

.changelogs/1.1.9/343_add_affinity_rules_support_by_pools.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+added:
+  - Add affinity/anti-affinity support by pools (@gyptazy). [#343]

.changelogs/1.1.9/release_meta.yml

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+date: 2025-10-30

.flake8

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-[flake8]
-per-file-ignores =
-    proxlb: E501,E221,E266,E231,E127,E222,E128

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

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+---
+name: Bug report
+about: Create a bug report
+title: "`Bug`:"
+labels: bug, needs-analysis
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+## General
+<-- Describe the bug from a high level perspective. -->
+
+## Weighting
+Score: <-- Define a scoring from 0-10 (10 highest, most urgent) -->
+
+## Config
+<-- Attach the ProxLB configuration for further analysis. Please take car to NOT publish your API credentials! -->
+
+## Log
+<-- Attach the ProxLB debug log for further analysis. Please take car to NOT publish your API credentials! -->
+
+## Meta
+Please provide some more information about your setup. This includes where you obtained ProxLB (e.g., as a `.deb` file, from the repository or container image) and also which version you're running in which mode. You can obtain the used version from you image version, your local repository information or by running `proxlb -v`.
+
+Version: <-- DEFINE_VERSION -->
+Installed from: <-- DEFINE_INSTALL_SOURCE -->
+Running as: <-- Container, local on Proxmox, local on all Proxmox, dedicated -->

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+name: Feature request
+about: Create a new request for a missing feature
+title: "`Feature`: "
+labels: feature, needs-analysis
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+## General
+<-- Describe the feature idea from a high level perspective. -->
+
+## Details
+<-- Provide some more details about the new feature request and provide examples. -->

.github/workflows/02-create-package.yml

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-name: Run basic pipeline on push
-on: [push]
-jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8"]
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Set up Python for ProxLB
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-        with:
-          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      - name: Install dependencies for ProxLB
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install pytest proxmoxer flake8
-          if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
-      - name: Run Python linting
-        run: |
-          python3 -m flake8 proxlb
-      - name: Create distro packages
-        run: |
-          cd packaging
-          ./01_package.sh

.github/workflows/10-code-liniting.yml

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+name: Code linting
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Setup dependencies for code linting
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install additional dependencies for code linting
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get -y install python3-pycodestyle pycodestyle
+      - name: Run code linting on ProxLB Python code
+        run: |
+          pycodestyle proxlb/*

.github/workflows/20-pipeline-build-deb-package.yml

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+name: "Build package: .deb"
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  lint-code-proxlb:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Setup dependencies for code linting
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install additional dependencies for code linting
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get -y install python3-pycodestyle pycodestyle
+      - name: Run code linting on ProxLB Python code
+        run: |
+          pycodestyle proxlb/* && \
+          echo "OK: Code linting successfully performed on ProxLB code."
+
+  build-package-debian:
+    needs: lint-code-proxlb
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.ref }}
+
+      - name: Set up Docker with Debian image
+        run: |
+          docker pull debian:latest
+
+      - name: Build DEB package in Docker container
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/workspace -w /workspace debian:latest bash -c "
+            # Install dependencies
+            apt-get update && \
+            apt-get install -y python3 python3-setuptools debhelper dh-python python3-pip python3-stdeb python3-proxmoxer python3-requests python3-urllib3 devscripts python3-all && \
+
+            # Get base version from source code
+            BASE_VERSION=\$(grep __version__ proxlb/utils/version.py | awk '{print \$3}' | tr -d '\"')
+            echo \"Base version: \$BASE_VERSION\"
+
+            # Build full version with timestamp
+            FULL_VERSION=\"\${BASE_VERSION}+$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)\"
+            echo \"Full version: \$FULL_VERSION\"
+
+            # Update debian/changelog with new version
+            dch --force-bad-version -v \"\$FULL_VERSION\" \
+                \"Automated GitHub Actions build on $(date -u +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC').\" && \
+
+            # Build package using stdeb / setuptools
+            # python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb && \
+            # Build native package
+            dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc && \
+            mkdir package && \
+            mv ../*.deb package/ && \
+            echo 'OK: Debian package successfully created.'
+          "
+
+      - name: Upload Debian package python3-proxlb as artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: debian-package
+          path: package/*.deb
+
+  integration-test-debian:
+    needs: build-package-debian
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        debian_version: [bookworm, trixie]
+    name: Integration Test on Debian ${{ matrix.debian_version }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Download Debian package artifact
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: debian-package
+          path: package/
+
+      - name: Set up Docker with Debian image
+        run: docker pull debian:${{ matrix.debian_version }}
+
+      - name: Install and test Debian package in Docker container
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm \
+            -v "$(pwd)/package:/package" \
+            -w /package \
+            debian:${{ matrix.debian_version }} \
+            bash -c "
+              set -e
+              apt-get update
+              apt-get install -y python3 systemd
+              apt-get install -y ./proxlb*.deb
+              python3 -c 'import proxlb; print(\"OK: Debian package successfully installed on ${{ matrix.debian_version }}.\")'
+            "

.github/workflows/20-pipeline-build-rpm-package.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+name: "Build package: .rpm"
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  lint-code-proxlb:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Setup dependencies for code linting
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install additional dependencies for code linting
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get -y install python3-pycodestyle pycodestyle
+      - name: Run code linting on ProxLB Python code
+        run: |
+          pycodestyle proxlb/* && \
+          echo "OK: Code linting successfully performed on ProxLB code."
+
+  build-package-rpm:
+    needs: lint-code-proxlb
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: 'development'
+
+      - name: Set up Docker with Debian image
+        run: |
+          docker pull debian:latest
+
+      - name: Build DEB package in Docker container
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/workspace -w /workspace debian:latest bash -c "
+            # Install dependencies
+            apt-get update && \
+            apt-get install -y python3 python3-setuptools rpm debhelper dh-python python3-pip python3-stdeb python3-proxmoxer python3-requests python3-urllib3 && \
+            # Build package
+            python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_rpm && \
+            echo 'OK: RPM package successfully created.'
+          "
+
+      - name: Upload RPM package python3-proxlb as artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: rpm-package
+          path: dist/*.rpm
+
+  # integration-test-rpm-rockylinux-9:
+  #   needs: build-package-rpm
+  #   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Download RPM package artifact
+  #       uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+  #       with:
+  #         name: rpm-package
+  #         path: dist/
+
+  #     - name: Set up Docker with RockyLinux 9 image
+  #       run: docker pull rockylinux:9
+
+  #     - name: Install and test RPM package in Rocky Linux Docker container
+  #       run: |
+  #         docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/dist:/dist -w /dist rockylinux:9 bash -c "
+  #           # DNF does not handle wildcards well
+  #           rpm_file=\$(ls proxlb*.noarch.rpm) && \
+  #           dnf install -y \$rpm_file && \
+  #           python3 -c 'import proxlb; print(\"OK: RPM package successfully installed.\")'
+  #         "
+
+  # integration-test-rpm-rockylinux-8:
+  #   needs: build-package-rpm
+  #   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Download RPM package artifact
+  #       uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+  #       with:
+  #         name: rpm-package
+  #         path: dist/
+
+  #     - name: Set up Docker with RockyLinux 8 image
+  #       run: docker pull rockylinux:8
+
+  #     - name: Install and test RPM package in Rocky Linux Docker container
+  #       run: |
+  #         docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/dist:/dist -w /dist rockylinux:8 bash -c "
+  #           # DNF does not handle wildcards well
+  #           rpm_file=\$(ls proxlb*.noarch.rpm) && \
+  #           dnf install -y \$rpm_file && \
+  #           python3 -c 'import proxlb; print(\"OK: RPM package successfully installed.\")'
+  #         "

.github/workflows/30-pipeline-build-container-amd64.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+name: "Build Container Image: AMD64"
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up QEMU
+      uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+    - name: Build amd64 image and save as tar
+      run: |
+        docker buildx build \
+          --platform linux/amd64 \
+          --load \
+          -t proxlb-image:amd64 \
+          .
+
+        docker save proxlb-image:amd64 -o proxlb_image_amd64.tar
+    - name: Upload Docker image artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: proxlb-image-amd64
+        path: proxlb_image_amd64.tar

.github/workflows/30-pipeline-build-container-arm64.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+name: "Build Container Image: ARM64"
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up QEMU
+      uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+    - name: Build arm64 image and save as tar
+      run: |
+        docker buildx build \
+          --platform linux/arm64 \
+          --load \
+          -t proxlb-image:arm64 \
+          .
+
+        docker save proxlb-image:arm64 -o proxlb_image_arm64.tar
+    - name: Upload Docker image artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: proxlb-image-arm64
+        path: proxlb_image_arm64.tar

.github/workflows/30-pipeline-build-container-multi-arch.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: "Build Container Image: Multiarch"
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up QEMU
+      uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+    - name: Build multi-arch image and save as tar
+      run: |
+        docker buildx build \
+          --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 \
+          --output type=tar,dest=proxlb_image_multiarch.tar \
+          .
+    - name: Upload Docker image artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: proxlb-image-multiarch
+        path: proxlb_image_multiarch.tar

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
-packaging/changelog-fragments-creator/
-dev/
+__pycache__
+*.pyc
+.DS_Store
+build/
+dist/
+*.egg-info/
+proxlb_dev.yaml

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,18 +5,243 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [1.1.11] - 2026-01-12
+
+### Added
+
+- Add support for Proxmoxs native HA (affinity/anti-affinity) rules [beta] (@gyptazy). [#391]
+- Add support for Proxmox native HA (node-affinity) rules for pinning guests to nodes [beta] (@gyptazy). [#391]
+- Add resource reservation support for PVE nodes (@Chipmonk2). [#373]
+- Add possibility to sort and select balancing workloads by smaller/larger guest objects (@gyptazy). [#387]
+- Add HA job validation for migration jobs to fetch child jobs (@gytazy). [#402]
+- Add support for configuring node-pinning strictness (default: true) within pools to allow strict/prefer modes (@gyptazy). [#406]
+- Add new option to enforce node/guest pinning even when cluster is balanced from a resource perspective (@gyptazy). [#414]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix missing overprovisioning safety guard to avoid node overprovisioning (@gyptazy). [#275]
+- Fix affinity matrix pre-validation by inverting validations (@Thalagyrt). [#335]
+- Fix pool based node pinning which expects a list (@gyptazy). [#395]
+- Fix that ignored VMs/CTs got moved to another node when being ignored (@gyptazy). [#408]
+
+### Changed
+
+- Change balancing and sorting behaviour (@gyptazy). [#378]
+- Balancing objects will be ordered by count of objects in affinity-rules, followed by memory size (@gyptazy). [#378]
+
+## [1.1.10] - 2025-11-25
+
+### Added
+
+- Prevent redundant rebalancing by validating existing affinity enforcement before taking actions (@gyptazy). [#335]
+- Add safety-guard for PVE 8 users when activating conntrack-aware migrations mistakenly (@gyptazy). [#359]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix the Proxmox API connection validation which returned a false-positive logging message of timeouts (@gyptazy). [#361]
+- Refactored Proxmox API connection functions (@gyptazy). [#361]
+- Fix a crash during PVE resource pool enumeration by skipping members not having a 'name' property (@stefanoettl). [#368]
+
+## [1.1.9.1] - 2025-10-30
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix quoting in f-strings which may cause issues on PVE 8 / Debian Bookworm systems (@gyptazy). [#352]
+
+## [1.1.9] - 2025-10-30
+
+### Added
+
+- Add an optional memory balancing threshold (@gyptazy). [#342]
+- Add affinity/anti-affinity support by pools (@gyptazy). [#343]
+- Add pressure (PSI) based balancing for memory, cpu, disk (req. PVE9 or greater) (@gyptazy). [#337]
+    - Pressure (PSI) based balancing for nodes
+    - Pressure (PSI) based balancing for guests
+- Add PVE version evaluation
+
+## [1.1.8] - 2025-10-09
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix API errors when using conntrack aware migration with older PVE versions (@gyptazy). [#318]
+- Add a static ProxLB prefix to the log output when used by journal handler (@gyptazy). [#329]
+
+### Changed
+- Container image does not run as root anymore (@mikaelkrantz945). [#317]
+- Container image uses venv for running ProxLB (@mikaelkrantz945). [#317]
+
+## [1.1.7] - 2025-09-19
+
+### Added
+
+- Add conntrack state aware migrations of VMs (@gyptazy). [#305]
+- Add graceful shutdown for SIGINT (e.g., CTRL + C abort). (@gyptazy). [#304]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix crash when validating absent migration job ids. (@gyptazy). [#308]
+- Fix guest object names are not being evaluated in debug log. (@gyptazy). [#310]
+
+## [1.1.6.1] - 2025-09-04
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Validate for node presence when pinning VMs to avoid crashing (@gyptazy). [#296]
+
+## [1.1.6] - 2025-09-04
+
+### Added
+
+- Add validation for provided API user token id to avoid confusions (@gyptazy). [#291]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix stacktrace output when validating permissions on non existing users in Proxmox (@gyptazy). [#291]
+- Fix Overprovisioning first node if anti_affinity_group has only one member (@MiBUl-eu). [#295]
+- Validate for node presence when pinning guests to avoid crashing (@gyptazy). [#296]
+- Fix balancing evaluation of guest types (e.g., VM or CT) (@gyptazy). [#268]
+
+## [1.1.5] - 2025-07-14
+
+### Added
+
+- Allow custom API ports instead of fixed tcp/8006 (@gyptazy). [#260]
+
+
+## [1.1.4] - 2025-06-27
+
+### Added
+
+- Allow pinning of guests to a group of nodes (@gyptazy). [#245]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Modified log levels to make output lighter at INFO level (@pmarasse) [#255]
+- Fixed an issue where balancing was performed in combination of deactivated balancing and dry-run mode (@gyptazy). [#248]
+
+
+## [1.1.3] - 2025-06-19
+
+### Added
+
+- Add relaod (SIGHUP) function to ProxLB to reload the configuration (by @gyptazy). [#189]
+- Add optional wait time parameter to delay execution until the service takes action (by @gyptazy). [#239]
+- Make the amount of parallel migrations configurable (by @gyptazy). [#241]
+
+### Changed
+
+- Use the average CPU consumption of a guest within the last 60 minutes instead of the current CPU usage (by @philslab-ninja & @gyptazy). [#94]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Align maintenance mode with Proxmox HA maintenance mode (by @gyptazy). [#232]
+
+
+## [1.1.2] - 2025-05-13
+
+### Added
+
+- Add a configurable retry mechanism when connecting to the Proxmox API (by @gyptazy) [#157]
+- Add 1-to-1 relationships between guest and hypervisor node to ping a guest on a node (by @gyptazy) [#218]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Force type cast cpu count of guests to int for some corner cases where a str got returned (by @gyptazy). [#222]
+- Fix systemd unit file to run after network on non PVE nodes (by @robertdahlem) [#137]
+
+
+## [1.1.1] - 2025-04-20
+
+### Added
+
+- Providing the API upstream error message when migration fails in debug mode (by @gyptazy) [#205]
+
+### Changed
+
+- Change the default behaviour of the daemon mode to active [#176]
+- Change the default banalcing mode to used instead of assigned [#180]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Set cpu_used to the cpu usage, which is a percent, times the total number of cores to get a number where guest cpu_used can be added to nodes cpu_used and be meaningful (by @glitchvern) [#195]
+- Fix tag evluation for VMs for being ignored for further balancing [#163]
+- Honor the value when balancing should not be performed and stop balancing [#174]
+- allow the use of minutes instead of hours and only accept hours or minutes in the format (by @glitchvern) [#187]
+- Remove hard coded memory usage from lowest usage node and use method and mode specified in configuration instead (by @glitchvern) [#197]
+- Fix the guest type relationship in the logs when a migration job failed (by @gyptazy) [#204]
+- Requery a guest if that running guest reports 0 cpu usage (by @glitchvern) [#200]
+- Fix Python path for Docker entrypoint (by @crandler) [#170]
+- Improve logging verbosity of messages that had a wrong servity [#165]
+
+
+## [1.1.0] - 2025-04-01
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Refactored code base for ProxLB [#114]
+- Switched to `pycodestyle` for linting [#114]
+- Package building will be done within GitHub actions pipeline [#114]
+- ProxLB now only returns a warning when no guests for further balancing are not present (instead of quitting) [132#]
+- All nodes (according to the free resources) will be used now [#130]
+- Fixed logging outputs where highest/lowest were mixed-up [#129]
+- Stop balancing when movement would get worste (new force param to enfoce for affinity rules) [#128]
+- Added requested documentation regarding Proxmox HA groups [#127]
+- Rewrite of the whole affinity/anti-affinity rules evaluation and placement [#123]
+- Fixed the `ignore` parameter for nodes where the node and guests on the node will be untouched [#102]
+
+
+## [1.0.6] - 2024-12-24
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix maintenance mode when using cli arg and config mode by using the merged list (by @CartCaved). [#119]
+- Fix that a scheduler time definition of 1 (int) gets wrongly interpreted as a bool (by @gyptazy). [#115]
+
+
+## [1.0.5] - 2024-10-30
+
+### Changed
+
+- Change docs to make bool usage in configs more clear (by @gyptazy). [#104]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix node (and its objects) evaluation when not reachable, e.g., maintenance (by @gyptazy). [#107]
+- Fix migration from local disks (by @greenlogles). [#113]
+- Fix evaluation of maintenance mode where comparing list & string resulted in a crash (by @glitchvern). [#106]
+- Fix allowed values (add DEBUG, WARNING) for log verbosity (by @gyptazy). [#98]
+
+
+## [1.0.4] - 2024-10-11
+
+### Added
+
+- Add maintenance mode to evacuate a node and move workloads for other nodes in the cluster. [#58]
+- Add feature to make API timeout configureable. [#91]
+- Add version output cli arg. [#89]
+
+### Changed
+
+- Run storage balancing only on supported shared storages. [#79]
+- Run storage balancing only when needed to save time. [#79]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix CPU balancing where calculations are done in float instead of int. (by @glitchvern) [#75]
+- Fix documentation for the underlying infrastructure. [#81]
+
 
 ## [1.0.3] - 2024-09-12
 
 ### Added
 
+- Add cli arg `-b` to return the next best node for next VM/CT placement. [#8]
 - Add a convert function to cast all bool alike options from configparser to bools. [#53]
 - Add a config parser options for future features. [#53]
 - Add a config versio schema that must be supported by ProxLB. [#53]
 - Add feature to allow the API hosts being provided as a comma separated list. [#60]
-- Add storage balancing function. [#51]
 - Add doc how to add dedicated user for authentication. (by @Dulux-Oz)
-- Add cli arg `-b` to return the next best node for next VM/CT placement. [#8]
+- Add storage balancing function. [#51]
 
 ### Changed
 
@@ -25,42 +250,44 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
-- Fix documentation for the master_only parameter placed in the wrong config section. [#74]
+- Fix anti-affinity rules not evaluating a new and different node. [#67]
 - Fixed `master_only` function by inverting the condition.
-- Improved the overall validation and error handling. [#64]
+- Fix documentation for the master_only parameter placed in the wrong config section. [#74]
 - Fix bug in the `proxlb.conf` in the vm_balancing section.
 - Fix handling of unset `ignore_nodes` and `ignore_vms` resulted in an attribute error. [#71]
-- Fix anti-affinity rules not evaluating a new and different node. [#67]
+- Improved the overall validation and error handling. [#64]
 
 
 ## [1.0.2] - 2024-08-13
 
 ### Added
 
-- Add option to run migration in parallel or sequentially. [#41]
 - Add option to run ProxLB only on the Proxmox's master node in the cluster (reg. HA feature). [#40]
+- Add option to run migrations in parallel or sequentially. [#41]
 
 ### Changed
 
 - Fix daemon timer to use hours instead of minutes. [#45]
+
+### Fixed
+
 - Fix CMake packaging for Debian package to avoid overwriting the config file. [#49]
-- Fix wonkey code style.
 
 
 ## [1.0.0] - 2024-08-01
 
 ### Added
 
-- Add feature to prevent VMs from being relocated by defining a wildcard pattern. [#7]
-- Add feature to make log verbosity configurable [#17].
-- Add option_mode to rebalance by node's free resources in percent (instead of bytes). [#29]
-- Add option to rebalance by assigned VM resources to avoid over provisioning. [#16]
-- Add Docker/Podman support. [#10 by @daanbosch]
-- Add exclude grouping feature to rebalance VMs from being located together to new nodes. [#4]
 - Add feature to prevent VMs from being relocated by defining the 'plb_ignore_vm' tag. [#7]
+- Add feature to prevent VMs from being relocated by defining a wildcard pattern. [#7]
+- Add Docker/Podman support. [#10 by @daanbosch]
+- Add option to rebalance by assigned VM resources to avoid overprovisioning. [#16]
+- Add feature to make log verbosity configurable [#17].
 - Add dry-run support to see what kind of rebalancing would be done. [#6]
 - Add LXC/Container integration. [#27]
+- Add exclude grouping feature to rebalance VMs from being located together to new nodes. [#4]
 - Add include grouping feature to rebalance VMs bundled to new nodes. [#3]
+- Add option_mode to rebalance by node's free resources in percent (instead of bytes). [#29]
 
 ### Changed