The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack 2024.2 Dalmatian for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Dalmatian is the 30th 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:

     http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-dalmatian/ 

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 SIG. The Cloud 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.

The highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/highlights.html but here are some highlights:

  • New Cinder driver features were added, notably, Dell PowerStore active-active support, Dell PowerStore QoS support, NetApp added support to active/active mode in ISCSI/FC drivers, HPE Nimble replication, and StorPool added support clone-across-pools capability.
  • Added Glance support of new add/get location APIs which replaces the image-update (old location-add) mechanism for consumers like cinder and nova to address OSSN-0090 and OSSN-0065.
  • Ironic has enhanced multiple security aspects, for example it now requires rescue passwords to be hashed, it has reduced the logged nodes information during the cleaning phase to avoid showing sensitive data, and it has hardened the communication between the ironic services and the ironic agent requiring an HTTPS url by default.
  • All Neutron supported mechanism drivers (ML2/OVS, ML2/OVN) can now use the WSGI API module, completing the first phase of eventlet library deprecation.
  • Nova Instances with UEFI firmware can now be launched with stateless firmware if their image has the hw_firmware_statelessproperty and if the compute services have libvirt 8.6.0 or later.

OpenStack Dalmatian is not marked as Skip Level Upgrade Release Process or SLURP. According to this model (https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20220210-release-cadence-adjustment.html) this means that upgrades will only be supported from the Caracal 2024.1 release.

RDO Dalmatian 2024.2 has been built and tested with the recently released Ceph  18.2.0 Reef version (https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/reef/)  which has been published by the CentOS Storage SIG in the official CentOS repositories. *Note:* Follow the instructions in [RDO documentation](https://www.rdoproject.org/install/install-with-ceph/) to install OpenStack and Ceph services in the same host.

During the Dalmatian cycle, some projects have been retired or declared inactive upstream. As such, the following packages for some projects are not present in the RDO Dalmatian 2024.2 release:


During the next release we will continue working on retiring inactive packages in order to ensure RDO content quality and security. 

Contributors:
During the Dalmatian cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:

  • Roman Safronov 
  • Archana Singh
  • pkomarov komarov
  • Sergii Golovatiuk
  • Milana Levy
  • Liron Kuchlani
  • Jaromír Wysoglad
  • Arnau Verdaguer
  • Andre Aranha

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 51 contributors who participated in producing this release. This list includes commits to rdo-packages, rdo-infra, and rdo-website repositories:

  • Alfredo Moralejo Alonso
  • Amy Marrich
  • Ananya Banerjee
  • Andre Aranha
  • Archana Singh
  • Arnau Verdaguer
  • Artom Lifshitz
  • Arx Cruz
  • Bhagyashri Shewale
  • Bohdan Dobrelia
  • Cédric Jeanneret
  • Chandan Kumar
  • Daniel Pawlik
  • Douglas Viroel
  • Fabien Boucher
  • Fiorella Yanac
  • Francesco Pantano
  • Goutham Pacha Ravi
  • Gregory Thiemonge
  • Grzegorz Grasza
  • Harald Jensås
  • Jaromír Wysoglad
  • Joan Francesc Gilabert
  • Joel Capitao
  • Jon Schlueter
  • Karolina Kula
  • Karthik Sundaravel
  • Lewis Denny
  • Liron Kuchlani
  • Lon Hohberger
  • Luigi Toscano
  • Maor Blaustein
  • Marihan Girgis
  • Marios Andreou
  • Martin Kopec
  • Martin Magr
  • Michael Johnson
  • Milana Levy
  • Nicolas Hicher
  • Pini Komarov
  • Roman Safronov
  • Ronelle Landy
  • Sergii Golovatiuk
  • Shreshtha Joshi
  • Soniya Vyas
  • Steve Baker
  • Takashi Kajinami
  • Tobias Urdin
  • Tristan De Cacqueray
  • Yadnesh Kulkarni
  • Yatin Karel   

The Next Release Cycle
At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next release i.e Epoxy.

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.

For those that do not have any hardware or physical resources, there is 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://www.rdoproject.org/community/mailing-lists/. 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. 

Amy Marrich

She/Her/Hers

Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Cloud Platforms

Red Hat, Inc

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