<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">If you're having trouble with the formatting, this <span class="gmail-m_7282085246239350272gmail-m_-2195848669111817559gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">release</span> <span class="gmail-il">announcement</span></span> is available online <a href="https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2019/04/rdo-stein-released/" target="_blank">https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2019/04/<span class="gmail-il">rdo</span>-<span class="gmail-il">stein</span>-<span class="gmail-il">released</span>/</a></div><div dir="ltr">---</div><div dir="ltr"><p>The <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> community is pleased to <span class="gmail-il">announce</span> the general availability of
the <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> build for OpenStack <span class="gmail-il">Stein</span> for RPM-based distributions, CentOS
Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> is suitable for building
private, public, and hybrid clouds. <span class="gmail-il">Stein</span> is the 19th <span class="gmail-il">release</span> from the
OpenStack project, which is the work of more than <a href="http://stackalytics.com/" target="_blank">1200 contributors</a> from around the world.</p>
<p>The <span class="gmail-il">release</span> is already available on the CentOS mirror network at <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-stein/" target="_blank">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-<span class="gmail-il">stein</span>/</a>.</p>
<p>The <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> community project curates, packages, builds, tests and
maintains a complete OpenStack component set for RHEL and CentOS Linux
and is a member of the <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud" target="_blank">CentOS Cloud Infrastructure SIG</a>.
The Cloud Infrastructure SIG focuses on delivering a great user
experience for CentOS Linux users looking to build and maintain their
own on-premise, public or hybrid clouds.</p>
<p>All work on <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> and on the downstream <span class="gmail-il">release</span>, <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/openstack-platform" target="_blank">Red Hat OpenStack Platform</a>, is 100% open source, with all code changes going upstream first.</p>
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<h2>New and Improved</h2>
<p>Interesting things in <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/stein/highlights.html" target="_blank">the <span class="gmail-il">Stein</span> <span class="gmail-il">release</span></a> include:</p>
<ul><li>
<p><a href="https://ceph.com/releases/v14-2-0-nautilus-released/" target="_blank">Ceph Nautilus</a>
is the default version of Ceph, a free-software storage platform,
implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and
provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage, within
<span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> (or is it the default without OpenStack?). Within Nautilus, the
Ceph Dashboard has gained a lot of new functionality like support for
multiple users / roles, SSO (SAMLv2) for user authentication, auditing
support, a new landing page showing more metrics and health info, I18N
support, and REST API documentation with Swagger API.</p>
</li><li>
<p>The extracted <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/placement/latest/usage/index.html" target="_blank">Placement service</a>,
used to track cloud resource inventories and usages to help other
services effectively manage and allocate their resources, is now
packaged as part of <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span>. Placement has added the ability to target a
candidate resource provider, easing specifying a host for workload
migration, increased API performance by 50% for common scheduling
operations, and simplified the code by removing unneeded complexity,
easing future maintenance.</p>
</li></ul>
<p>Other improvements include:</p>
<ul><li>The <a href="http://tripleo.org/" target="_blank">TripleO deployment service</a>,
used to develop and maintain tooling and infrastructure able to deploy
OpenStack in production, using OpenStack itself wherever possible, added
support for podman and buildah for containers and container images.
Open Virtual Network (OVN) is now the default network configuration and
TripleO now has improved composable network support for creating L3
routed networks and IPV6 network support.</li></ul>
<h2>Contributors</h2>
<p>During the <span class="gmail-il">Stein</span> cycle, we saw the following new <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> contributors:</p>
<ul><li>Sławek Kapłoński</li><li>Tobias Urdin</li><li>Lee Yarwood</li><li>Quique Llorente</li><li>Arx Cruz</li><li>Natal Ngétal</li><li>Sorin Sbarnea</li><li>Aditya Vaja</li><li>Panda</li><li>Spyros Trigazis</li><li>Cyril Roelandt</li><li>Pranali Deore</li><li>Grzegorz Grasza</li><li>Adam Kimball</li><li>Brian Rosmaita</li><li>Miguel Duarte Barroso</li><li>Gauvain Pocentek</li><li>Akhila Kishore</li><li>Martin Mágr</li><li>Michele Baldessari</li><li>Chuck Short</li><li>Gorka Eguileor</li></ul>
<p>Welcome to all of you and Thank You So Much for participating!</p>
<p>But we wouldn’t want to overlook anyone. A super massive Thank You to
all 74 contributors who participated in producing this <span class="gmail-il">release</span>. This
list includes commits to <span class="gmail-il">rdo</span>-packages and <span class="gmail-il">rdo</span>-infra repositories:</p>
<ul><li>yatin</li><li>Sagi Shnaidman</li><li>Wes Hayutin</li><li>Rlandy</li><li>Javier Peña</li><li>Alfredo Moralejo</li><li>Bogdan Dobrelya</li><li>Sławek Kapłoński</li><li>Alex Schultz</li><li>Emilien Macchi</li><li>Lon</li><li>Jon Schlueter</li><li>Luigi Toscano</li><li>Eric Harney</li><li>Tobias Urdin</li><li>Chandan Kumar</li><li>Nate Johnston</li><li>Lee Yarwood</li><li>rabi</li><li>Quique Llorente</li><li>Chandan Kumar</li><li>Luka Peschke</li><li>Carlos Goncalves</li><li>Arx Cruz</li><li>Kashyap Chamarthy</li><li>Cédric Jeanneret</li><li>Victoria Martinez de la Cruz</li><li>Bernard Cafarelli</li><li>Natal Ngétal</li><li>hjensas</li><li>Tristan de Cacqueray</li><li>Marc Dequènes (Duck)</li><li>Juan Antonio Osorio Robles</li><li>Sorin Sbarnea</li><li>Rafael Folco</li><li>Nicolas Hicher</li><li>Michael Turek</li><li>Matthias Runge</li><li>Giulio Fidente</li><li>Juan Badia Payno</li><li>Zoltan Caplovic</li><li>agopi</li><li>marios</li><li>Ilya Etingof</li><li>Steve Baker</li><li>Aditya Vaja</li><li>Panda</li><li>Florian Fuchs</li><li>Martin André</li><li>Dmitry Tantsur</li><li>Sylvain Baubeau</li><li>Jakub Ružička</li><li>Dan Radez</li><li>Honza Pokorny</li><li>Spyros Trigazis</li><li>Cyril Roelandt</li><li>Pranali Deore</li><li>Grzegorz Grasza</li><li>Bnemec</li><li>Adam Kimball</li><li>Haikel Guemar</li><li>Daniel Mellado</li><li>Bob Fournier</li><li>Nmagnezi</li><li>Brian Rosmaita</li><li>Ade Lee</li><li>Miguel Duarte Barroso</li><li>Alan Bishop</li><li>Gauvain Pocentek</li><li>Akhila Kishore</li><li>Martin Mágr</li><li>Michele Baldessari</li><li>Chuck Short</li><li>Gorka Eguileor</li></ul>
<h2>The Next <span class="gmail-il">Release</span> Cycle</h2>
<p>At the end of one <span class="gmail-il">release</span>, focus shifts immediately to the next,
Train, which has an estimated GA the week of 14-18 October 2019. The
full schedule is available at <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/train/schedule.html" target="_blank">https://<span class="gmail-il">releases</span>.openstack.org/train/schedule.html</a>.</p>
<p>Twice during each <span class="gmail-il">release</span> cycle, <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> hosts official Test Days shortly
after the first and third milestones; therefore, the upcoming test days
are 13-14 June 2019 for Milestone One and 16-20 September 2019 for
Milestone Three.</p>
<h2>Get Started</h2>
<p>There are three ways to get started with <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span>.</p>
<p>To spin up a proof of concept cloud, quickly, and on limited hardware, try an <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack/" target="_blank">All-In-One Packstack installation</a>. You can run <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> on a single node to get a feel for how it works.</p>
<p>For a production deployment of <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span>, use the <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/tripleo/" target="_blank">TripleO Quickstart</a> and you’ll be running a production cloud in short order.</p>
<p>Finally, for those that don’t have any hardware or physical resources, there’s the <a href="https://www.openstack.org/passport" target="_blank">OpenStack Global Passport Program</a>.
This is a collaborative effort between OpenStack public cloud providers
to let you experience the freedom, performance and interoperability of
open source infrastructure. You can quickly and easily gain access to
OpenStack infrastructure via trial programs from participating OpenStack
public cloud providers around the world.</p>
<h2>Get Help</h2>
<p>The <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> Project participates in a Q&A service at <a href="https://ask.openstack.org/" target="_blank">https://ask.openstack.org</a>. We also have our <a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">users@lists.rdoproject.org</a> for <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span>-specific users and operrators. For more developer-oriented content we recommend joining the <a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">dev@lists.rdoproject.org mailing list</a>. Remember to post a brief introduction about yourself and your <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> story. The mailing lists archives are all available at <a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">https://mail.rdoproject.org</a>. You can also find extensive documentation on <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/" target="_blank">RDOproject.org</a>.</p>
<p>The #<span class="gmail-il">rdo</span> channel on Freenode IRC is also an excellent place to find and give help.</p>
<p>We also welcome comments and requests on the <a href="https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">CentOS mailing lists</a>
and the CentOS and TripleO IRC channels (#centos, #centos-devel, and
#tripleo on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>), however we have a more focused audience
within the <span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> venues.</p>
<h2>Get Involved</h2>
<p>To get involved in the OpenStack RPM packaging effort, check out the <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/contribute/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> contribute pages</a>, peruse the <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud" target="_blank">CentOS Cloud SIG page</a>, and inhale the <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/documentation/rdo-packaging/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-il">RDO</span> packaging documentation</a>.</p>
<p>Join us in #<span class="gmail-il">rdo</span> on the Freenode IRC network and follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/rdocommunity/" target="_blank">Twitter @RDOCommunity</a>. You can also find us on <a href="https://facebook.com/rdocommunity" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYIPZ4lm4P3_pzZ9Hx9awg" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.</p></div></div>