<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>If you're having trouble with the formatting, this <span class="gmail-il">release announcement</span> is available online <a href="https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2018/09/rdo-rocky-released/">https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2018/09/rdo-rocky-released/</a> <br>---<br>The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of
the RDO build for OpenStack Rocky for RPM-based distributions, CentOS
Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building
private, public, and hybrid clouds. Rocky is the 18th release from the
OpenStack project, which is the work of <a href="http://stackalytics.com/">more than 1400 contributors from around the world</a>.</p>
<p>The release already available on the CentOS mirror network at <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-rocky/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-rocky/</a></p>
<p>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 <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud">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 RDO and on the downstream release, <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/openstack-platform">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 the Rocky release include:</p>
<ul><li>New <a href="https://networking-ansible.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">neutron ML2 driver networking-ansible</a> has been included in RDO. This module abstracts management and interaction with switching hardware to Ansible Networking.</li><li>Swift3 has been moved to swift package as the “s3api” middleware.</li></ul>
<p>Other improvements include:</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://metalsmith.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Metalsmith</a> is now included in RDO. This is a simple tool to provision bare metal machines using ironic, glance and neutron.</li></ul>
<h2>Contributors</h2>
<p>During the Rocky cycle, we saw the following new contributors:</p>
<ul><li>Bob Fournier</li><li>Bogdan Dobrelya</li><li>Carlos Camacho</li><li>Carlos Goncalves</li><li>Cédric Jeanneret</li><li>Charles Short</li><li>Dan Smith</li><li>Dustin Schoenbrun</li><li>Florian Fuchs</li><li>Goutham Pacha Ravi</li><li>Ilya Etingof</li><li>Konrad Mosoń</li><li>Luka Peschke</li><li>mandreou</li><li>Nate Johnston</li><li>Sandhya Dasu</li><li>Sergii Golovatiuk</li><li>Tobias Urdin</li><li>Tony Breeds</li><li>Victoria Martinez de la Cruz</li><li>Yaakov Selkowitz</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 SIXTY-NINE contributors who participated in producing this release.
This list includes commits to rdo-packages and rdo-infra repositories:</p>
<ul><li>Ade Lee</li><li>Alan Bishop</li><li>Alan Pevec</li><li>Alex Schultz</li><li>Alfredo Moralejo</li><li>Bob Fournier</li><li>Bogdan Dobrelya</li><li>Brad P. Crochet</li><li>Carlos Camacho</li><li>Carlos Goncalves</li><li>Cédric Jeanneret</li><li>Chandan Kumar</li><li>Charles Short</li><li>Christian Schwede</li><li>Daniel Alvarez</li><li>Daniel Mellado</li><li>Dansmith</li><li>Dmitry Tantsur</li><li>Dougal Matthews</li><li>Dustin Schoenbrun</li><li>Emilien Macchi</li><li>Eric Harney</li><li>Florian Fuchs</li><li>Goutham Pacha Ravi</li><li>Haikel Guemar</li><li>Honza Pokorny</li><li>Ilya Etingof</li><li>James Slagle</li><li>Jason Joyce</li><li>Javier Peña</li><li>Jistr</li><li>Jlibosva</li><li>Jon Schlueter</li><li>Juan Antonio Osorio Robles</li><li>karthik s</li><li>Kashyap Chamarthy</li><li>Kevin Tibi</li><li>Konrad Mosoń</li><li>Lon</li><li>Luigi Toscano</li><li>Luka Peschke</li><li>marios</li><li>Martin André</li><li>Matthew Booth</li><li>Matthias Runge</li><li>Mehdi Abaakouk</li><li>Nate Johnston</li><li>Nmagnezi</li><li>Oliver Walsh</li><li>Pete Zaitcev</li><li>Pradeep Kilambi</li><li>rabi</li><li>Radomir Dopieralski</li><li>Ricardo Noriega</li><li>Sandhya Dasu</li><li>Sergii Golovatiuk</li><li>shrjoshi</li><li>Steve Baker</li><li>Thierry Vignaud</li><li>Tobias Urdin</li><li>Tom Barron</li><li>Tony Breeds</li><li>Tristan de Cacqueray</li><li>Victoria Martinez de la Cruz</li><li>Yaakov Selkowitz</li><li>yatin</li></ul>
<h2>The Next Release Cycle</h2>
<p>At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next, <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming/S_Proposals">Stein</a> which has a slightly longer release cycle due to the <a href="https://ttx.re/future-of-ptg.html">PTG Summit co-location next year</a> with an estimated GA the week of 08-12 April 2019. The full schedule is available at <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html">https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html</a>.</p>
<p>Twice during each release cycle, RDO hosts official Test Days shortly
after the first and third milestones; therefore, the upcoming test days
are 01-02 November 2018 for Milestone One and 14-15 March 2019 for
Milestone Three.</p>
<h2>Get Started</h2>
<p>There are three ways to get started with RDO.</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/">All-In-One Packstack installation</a>. You can run RDO on a single node to get a feel for how it works.</p>
<p>For a production deployment of RDO, use the <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/tripleo/">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">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 RDO Project participates in a Q&A service at <a href="https://ask.openstack.org">https://ask.openstack.org</a>.
We also have our
[<a href="mailto:users@lists.rdoproject.org">users@lists.rdoproject.org</a>[(<a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users">https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a>)
for RDO-specific users and operrators. For more developer-oriented
content we recommend joining the <a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev">dev@lists.rdoproject.org mailing list</a>. Remember to post a brief introduction about yourself and your RDO story. The mailing lists archives are all available at <a href="https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo">https://mail.rdoproject.org</a>. You can also find extensive documentation on <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/">RDOproject.org</a>.</p>
<p>The #rdo 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">CentOS mailing lists</a>
and the CentOS and TripleO IRC channels (#centos, #centos-devel, and
#tripleo on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>), however we have a more focused audience
within the RDO 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/">RDO contribute pages</a>, peruse the <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud">CentOS Cloud SIG page</a>, and inhale the <a href="https://www.rdoproject.org/documentation/rdo-packaging/">RDO packaging documentation</a>.</p>
<p>Join us in #rdo on the Freenode IRC network and follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/rdocommunity/">Twitter @RDOCommunity</a>. You can also find us on <a href="https://facebook.com/rdocommunity">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/110409030763231732154">Google+</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYIPZ4lm4P3_pzZ9Hx9awg">YouTube</a>.</p></div></div>