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RDO Ussuri Released

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Ussuri for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Ussuri is the 21st 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/cloud/x86_64/openstack-ussuri/.

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.

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, RDO Ussuri provides packages for CentOS8 only. Please use the previous release, Train, for CentOS7 and python 2.7.

Interesting things in the Ussuri release include:

Within the Ironic project, a bare metal service that is capable of managing and provisioning physical machines in a security-aware and fault-tolerant manner, UEFI and device selection is now available for Software RAID.

The Kolla project, the containerised deployment of OpenStack used to provide production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds, streamlined the configuration of external [Ceph](https://ceph.io/) integration, making it easy to go from Ceph-Ansible-deployed Ceph cluster to enabling it in OpenStack.

Other improvements include:

Support for IPv6 is available within the Kuryr project, the bridge between container framework networking models and OpenStack networking abstractions.

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

A new Neutron driver networking-omnipath has been included in RDO distribution which enables the Omni-Path switching fabric in OpenStack cloud.

OVN Neutron driver has been merged in main neutron repositon from networking-ovn.

Contributors

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

Amol Kahat

Artom Lifshitz

Bhagyashri Shewale

Brian Haley

Dan Pawlik

Dmitry Tantsur

Dougal Matthews

Eyal

Harald Jensås

Kevin Carter

Lance Albertson

Martin Schuppert

Mathieu Bultel

Matthias Runge

Miguel Garcia

Riccardo Pittau

Sagi Shnaidman

Sandeep Yadav

SurajP

Toure Dunnon

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

Adam Kimball

Alan Bishop

Alan Pevec

Alex Schultz

Alfredo Moralejo

Amol Kahat

Artom Lifshitz

Arx Cruz

Bhagyashri Shewale

Brian Haley

Cédric Jeanneret

Chandan Kumar

Dan Pawlik

David Moreau Simard

Dmitry Tantsur

Dougal Matthews

Emilien Macchi

Eric Harney

Eyal

Fabien Boucher

Gabriele Cerami

Gael Chamoulaud

Giulio Fidente

Harald Jensås

Jakub Libosvar

Javier Peña

Joel Capitao

Jon Schlueter

Kevin Carter

Lance Albertson

Lee Yarwood

Marc Dequènes (Duck)

Marios Andreou

Martin Mágr

Martin Schuppert

Mathieu Bultel

Matthias Runge

Miguel Garcia

Mike Turek

Nicolas Hicher

Rafael Folco

Riccardo Pittau

Ronelle Landy

Sagi Shnaidman

Sandeep Yadav

Soniya Vyas

Sorin Sbarnea

SurajP

Toure Dunnon

Tristan de Cacqueray

Victoria Martinez de la Cruz

Wes Hayutin

Yatin Karel

Zoltan Caplovic

The Next Release Cycle

At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next, Victoria, which has an estimated GA the week of 12-16 October 2020. The full schedule is available at https://releases.openstack.org/victoria/schedule.html.

Twice during each release cycle, RDO hosts official Test Days shortly after the first and third milestones; therefore, the upcoming test days are 25-26 June 2020 for Milestone One and 17-18 September 2020 for Milestone Three.

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 the TripleO Quickstart 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 participates in a Q&A service at https://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 mailing lists archives are all available athttps://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.

Amy Marrich (spotz)

https://www.rdoproject.org

http://community.redhat.com