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RDO Wallaby Released

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Wallaby for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Wallaby is the 23rd release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world.

The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-wallaby/.

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.

PLEASE NOTE: RDO Wallaby provides packages for CentOS Stream 8 and Python 3 only. Please use the Victoria release for CentOS8.  For CentOS7 and python 2.7, please use the Train release.

Interesting things in the Wallaby release include:

RBAC supported added in multiple projects including Designate, Glance, Horizon, Ironic, and Octavia

Glance added support for distributed image import

Ironic added deployment and cleaning enhancements including UEFI Partition Image handling, NVMe Secure Erase, per-instance deployment driver interface overrides, deploy time “deploy_steps”, and file injection.

Kuryr added nested mode with node VMs running in multiple subnets is now available. To use that functionality a new option [pod_vif_nested]worker_nodes_subnets is introduced accepting multiple Subnet IDs.

Manila added the ability for Operators to now set maximum and minimum share sizes as extra specifications on share types.

Neutron added a new subnet type network:routed is now available. IPs of this subnet type can be advertised with BGP over a provider network.

TripleO moved network and network port creation out of the Heat stack and into the baremetal provisioning workflow.

Other highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via https://releases.openstack.org/wallaby/highlights.html

Contributors

During the Wallaby cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:

Adriano Petrich

Ananya Banerjee

Artom Lifshitz

Attila Fazekas

Brian Haley

David J Peacock

Jason Joyce

Jeremy Freudberg

Jiri Podivin

Martin Kopec

Waleed Mousa

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

Adriano Petrich

Alex Schultz

Alfredo Moralejo

Amol Kahat

Amy Marrich

Ananya Banerjee

Artom Lifshitz

Arx Cruz

Attila Fazekas

Bhagyashri Shewale

Brian Haley

Cédric Jeanneret

Chandan Kumar

Daniel Pawlik

David J Peacock

Dmitry Tantsur

Emilien Macchi

Eric Harney

Fabien Boucher

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Gabriele Cerami

Gael Chamoulaud

Grzegorz Grasza

Harald Jensas

Jason Joyce

Javier Pena

Jeremy Freudberg

Jiri Podivin

Joel Capitao

Kevin Carter

Luigi Toscano

Marc Dequenes

Marios Andreou

Martin Kopec

Mathieu Bultel

Matthias Runge

Mike Turek

Nicolas Hicher

Pete Zaitcev

Pooja Jadhav

Rabi Mishra

Riccardo Pittau

Roman Gorshunov

Ronelle Landy

Sagi Shnaidman

Sandeep Yadav

Slawek Kaplonski

Sorin Sbarnea

Steve Baker

Takashi Kajinami

Tristan Cacqueray

Waleed Mousa

Wes Hayutin

Yatin Karel

The Next Release Cycle

At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next release i.e Xena.

Get 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 TripleO and you’ll be running a production cloud in short order.

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 Freenode 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 and TripleO IRC channels (#centos, #centos-devel, and #tripleo on irc.freenode.net), 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 #tripleo on the Freenode IRC network and follow us on Twitter @RDOCommunity. You can also find us on Facebook and YouTube.