The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Queens for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Queens is the 17th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1600 contributors from around the world (source - http://stackalytics.com/ ).

The release is making its way out to the CentOS mirror network, and should be on your favorite mirror site momentarily.

The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and maintains a complete OpenStack component set for RHEL and CentOS Linux and is a member of the CentOS Cloud Infrastructure SIG. 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.

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 and Improved Interesting things in the Queens release include:

* Ironic now supports Neutron routed networks with flat networking and introduces support for Nova traits when scheduling * RDO now includes rsdclient, an OpenStack client plugin for Rack Scale Design architecture * Support for octaviaclient and Octavia Horizon plugin has been added to improve Octavia service deployments. * Tap-as-a-Service (TaaS) network extension to the OpenStack network service (Neutron) has been included. * Multi-vendor Modular Layer 2 (ML2) driver networking-generic-switch si now available of operators deploying RDO Queens.

Other improvements include:

* Most of the bundled intree tempest plugins have been moved to their own repository during Queens cycle. RDO has adapted plugin packages for these new model. * In an effort to improve the quality and reduce the delivery time for our users, RDO keeps refining and automating all required processes needed to build, test and publish the packages included in RDO distribution.

Note that packages for OpenStack projects with cycle-trailing release models[*] will be created after a release is delivered according to the OpenStack Queens schedule. [*] https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-trailing

Contributors During the Queens cycle, we saw the following new contributors:

Aditya Ramteke Jatan Malde Ade Lee James Slagle Alex Schultz Artom Lifshitz Mathieu Bultel Petr Viktorin Radomir Dopieralski Mark Hamzy Sagar Ippalpalli Martin Kopec Victoria Martinez de la Cruz Harald Jensas Kashyap Chamarthy dparalen Thiago da Silva chenxing Johan Guldmyr David J Peacock Sagi Shnaidman Jose Luis Franco Arza

Welcome to all of you, and thank you so much for participating!

But, we wouldn’t want to overlook anyone. Thank you to all 76 contributors who participated in producing this release. This list includes commits to rdo-packages and rdo-infra repositories, and is provided in no particular order:

Yatin Karel Aditya Ramteke Javier Pena Alfredo Moralejo Christopher Brown Jon Schlueter Chandan Kumar Haikel Guemar Emilien Macchi Jatan Malde Pradeep Kilambi Luigi Toscano Alan Pevec Eric Harney Ben Nemec Matthias Runge Ade Lee Jakub Libosvar Thierry Vignaud Alex Schultz Juan Antonio Osorio Robles Mohammed Naser James Slagle Jason Joyce Artom Lifshitz Lon Hohberger rabi Dmitry Tantsur Oliver Walsh Mathieu Bultel Steve Baker Daniel Mellado Terry Wilson Tom Barron Jiri Stransky Ricardo Noriega Petr Viktorin Juan Antonio Osorio Robles Eduardo Gonzalez Radomir Dopieralski Mark Hamzy Sagar Ippalpalli Martin Kopec Ihar Hrachyshka Tristan Cacqueray Victoria Martinez de la Cruz Bernard Cafarelli Harald Jensas Assaf Muller Kashyap Chamarthy Jeremy Liu Daniel Alvarez Mehdi Abaakouk dparalen Thiago da Silva Brad P. Crochet chenxing Johan Guldmyr Antoni Segura Puimedon David J Peacock Sagi Shnaidman Jose Luis Franco Arza Julie Pichon David Moreau-Simard Wes Hayutin Attila Darazs Gabriele Cerami John Trowbridge Gonéri Le Bouder Ronelle Landy Matt Young Arx Cruz Joe H. Rahme marios Sofer Athlan-Guyot Paul Belanger

Getting Started

There are three ways to get started with RDO.

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 a production deployment of RDO, use the TripleO Quickstart and you’ll be running a production cloud in short order.

Finally, if you want to try out OpenStack, but don’t have the time or hardware to run it yourself, visit TryStack, where you can use a free public OpenStack instance, running RDO packages, to experiment with the OpenStack management interface and API, launch instances, configure networks, and generally familiarize yourself with OpenStack. (TryStack is not, at this time, running Queens, although it is running RDO.)

Getting Help

The RDO Project participates in a Q&A service at ask.openstack.org. We also have our users@lists.rdoproject.org for RDO-specific users and operrators. 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 mailng lists archives are all available at https://mail.rdoproject.org You can also find extensive documentation on the RDO docs site.

The #rdo channel on Freenode IRC is also an excellent place to find help and give help.

We also welcome comments and requests on the CentOS mailing lists and the CentOS and TripleO IRC channels (#centos, #centos-devel, and #tripleo on irc.freenode.net), however we have a more focused audience in the RDO venues.

Getting Involved

To get involved in the OpenStack RPM packaging effort, see the RDO community pages and the CentOS Cloud SIG page. See also the RDO packaging documentation.

Join us in #rdo on the Freenode IRC network, and follow us at @RDOCommunity on Twitter. If you prefer Facebook, we’re there too, and also Google+.