2024 Series Release Notes

16.2.0-43

New Features

  • Add Autoevacuate (consule role) feature

  • Add deployment and management of Openstack Load Leveller aka Dynamic Load Rebalancer.

  • Yadro Tatlin driver: upgraded to Yadro Tatlin Unified FC driver

  • Huawei driver: upgraded to Huawei vendor driver v2.6.2

  • Added KeyStack AdminUI feature.

  • Added BGP support for OVN Next containers has been added: * bird * frr * ovn-bgp-agent

  • Adds an image and further support for the prometheus-ovs-exporter, ‘a Tool to expose openvswitch data in the Prometheus format through an HTTP endpoint’.

  • Implements SberCloud Storage Cluster. SberCloud Storage Cluster is a solution that enables easy and fast transformation of data storage devices (HDD, SSD) and network equipment into a secure cluster-based SAN/NAS storage at the enterprise level.

  • Implements SberCloud Storage Cluster on ubuntu 22.04 SberCloud Storage Cluster is a solution that enables easy and fast transformation of data storage devices (HDD, SSD) and network equipment into a secure cluster-based SAN/NAS storage at the enterprise level.

  • Add an external prometheus exporter for rabbitmq to complement the internal one, as they don’t fully overlap on the metrics that they collect.

  • Introduces block openstack_base_override_upper_constraints to provide users with the capability to globally override version constraints for services.

  • Adds support for writing the build summary to a JSON file specified via the [DEFAULT] summary_json_file option.

  • Bump dnsmasq version to 2.89 to make able using edns extension.

  • Redfish support added for VMHA fencing driver

Known Issues

  • The Openstack Load Leveller is a utility that will move VMs around hypervisors until the load (as defined in the configuration) in terms of memory and CPU usage reaches equilibrium.

Upgrade Notes

  • Upgrades Prometheus Node Exporter to version 1.6.0.

  • Switch adminui-backend to wsgi running under apache. Replace trove user with root user in adminui-backend image, services running under apache need root privilege.

  • Next VMHA config options has changed: - ipmi_prefix -> bmc_suffix - ipmi_user -> bmc_user - ipmi_password -> bmc_password New VMHA config options: - bmc_verify_ssl: “False|True|<path to CA file>” defaults to openstack_cacert if defined or False

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed volume creation on FC storage with cinder-volume on Sber-linux.

  • Create default multipath.conf for * cinder-volume * glance-api * nova-compute for rpm-based distros, to work correctly with multipath

  • The Nova API container extended startup script has been updated to only sync the local Nova cell. This resolves an error that would occur when the Nova database password changes. More details can be found on this bug report.

Other Notes

  • Currently only Ubuntu base distro is supported

16.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes missing way for kolla-toolbox to be built offline. LP#2020761

  • Adds missing grafana-opensearch-datasource plugin to the list of plugins in the docker image.

  • Fix container restart conditions to be tolerant of missing optional source and/or destination files. For more details, see the following bug report

16.0.0

New Features

  • Add skyline container images. Skyline is a modern OpenStack dashboard service.

  • The OVN Neutron Agent container image (neutron-ovn-agent) has been added.

  • ovn-expoter has been updated to version 1.0.6

  • Added two macros to manipulate “upper-constraints.txt” file:

    • upper_constraints_remove()

    • upper_constraints_version_change()

    First one allows to remove not wanted constraint, second is for version changes.

Upgrade Notes

  • Kolla toolbox is now using ansible-core 2.14.

  • Default base distribution has been changed from CentOS Stream to Rocky Linux.

  • skydive Kolla images have been dropped, the project is not active anymore.

  • Gnocchi version has been updated to 4.5.0.

  • Opensearch and Opensearch Dashboards have been updated to 2.5 version.

  • RabbitMQ version has been updated to 3.11.

  • install_type argument is now removed. We no longer support other values than source therefore handling of argument was dropped.

  • Switch trove-api to wsgi running under apache. Replace trove user with root user in trove-api image, services running under apache need root privilege.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes an issue where the script kolla_ensure_openvswitch_configured in the openvswitch-db-server image would ignore errors encountered while configuring bridges and ports. LP#1999778

  • Fixes starting mistral-api not starting. root user needs to be used when starting mistral-api using apache2. Previously, the mistral user was used, but it lacks some permissions. LP#2000915