RDO Bobcat Released
The
RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the
RDO build for OpenStack 2023.2 Bobcat for RPM-based distributions,
CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building
private, public, and hybrid clouds. Bobcat is the 28th release from the
OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors
from around the world.
The release is already available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror network in:
The
RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and maintains a
complete OpenStack component set for RHEL and CentOS Stream and is a
member of the CentOS Cloud Infrastructure SIG. The Cloud Infrastructure
SIG focuses on delivering a great user experience for CentOS users
looking to build and maintain their own on-premise, public or hybrid
clouds.
All
work on RDO and on the downstream release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform,
is 100% open source, with all code changes going upstream first.
- New
Cinder driver features were added, notably, QoS support for Fujitsu
ETERNUS DX driver, replication-enabled consistency groups support for
Pure Storage driver, and Active/Active support for NetApp NFS driver.
- Glance added support for RBD driver to move images to the trash if they cannot be deleted immediately due to having snapshots.
- The Neutron service has enabled the new API policies (RBAC) with system scope and default roles by default.
- The
Nova legacy quota driver is now deprecated and a nova-manage limits
command is provided in order to migrate the orginal limits into
Keystone. We plan to change the default quota driver to the unified
limits driver in an upcoming release. It is recommended that you begin
planning and executing a migration to unified limits as soon as
possible.
During
the Bobcat 2023.2 development cycle, the RDO community has implemented
automatic dependency detection at run and build time. We expect that
these changes will lead to more accurate dependency chains in OpenStack
packages and less manual maintenance tasks for community maintainers.
Following upstream retirement, some packages are not present in RDO Bobcat 2023.2 release:
- python-networking-omnipath
- python-networking-vmware-nsx
- python-oswin-tests-tempest
- python-vmware-nsx-tests-tempest
Contributors
- During the Bobcat cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:
Welcome to all of you and Thank You So Much for participating!
But
we wouldn’t want to overlook anyone. A super massive Thank You to all
47 contributors who participated in producing this release. This list
includes commits to rdo-packages, rdo-infra, and rdo-website
repositories:
The Next Release Cycle
At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next release i.e Caracal.
Get Started
To
spin up a proof of concept cloud, quickly, and on limited hardware, try
an All-In-One Packstack installation. You can run RDO on a single node
to get a feel for how it works.
Finally,
for those that don’t have any hardware or physical resources, there’s
the OpenStack Global Passport Program. 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.
Get Help
The RDO Project has our users@lists.rdoproject.org for RDO-specific users and operators. For more developer-oriented content we recommend joining the dev@lists.rdoproject.org
mailing list. Remember to post a brief introduction about yourself and
your RDO story. The mailing lists archives are all available at https://mail.rdoproject.org. You can also find extensive documentation on RDOproject.org.
The #rdo channel on OFTC IRC is also an excellent place to find and give help.
We
also welcome comments and requests on the CentOS devel mailing list and
the CentOS IRC channels (#centos, #centos-cloud, #centos-devel in
Libera.Chat network), however we have a more focused audience within the
RDO venues.
Get Involved
To
get involved in the OpenStack RPM packaging effort, check out the RDO
contribute pages, peruse the CentOS Cloud SIG page, and inhale the RDO
packaging documentation.
Join
us in #rdo and on the OFTC IRC network and follow us on Twitter
@RDOCommunity. You can also find us on Facebook and YouTube.
