9:07 a.m.
The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for
OpenStack 2024.2 Dalmatian for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds.
Dalmatian is the 30th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than
1,000 contributors from around the world.
The release is already available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror network in:
http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-dalm...
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
SIG. The Cloud 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.
The highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via
https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/highlights.html but here are some highlights:
New Cinder driver features were added, notably, Dell PowerStore active-active support,
Dell PowerStore QoS support, NetApp added support to active/active mode in ISCSI/FC
drivers, HPE Nimble replication, and StorPool added support clone-across-pools
capability.
Added Glance support of new add/get location APIs which replaces the image-update (old
location-add) mechanism for consumers like cinder and nova to address OSSN-0090 and
OSSN-0065.
Ironic has enhanced multiple security aspects, for example it now requires rescue
passwords to be hashed, it has reduced the logged nodes information during the cleaning
phase to avoid showing sensitive data, and it has hardened the communication between the
ironic services and the ironic agent requiring an HTTPS url by default.
All Neutron supported mechanism drivers (ML2/OVS, ML2/OVN) can now use the WSGI API
module, completing the first phase of eventlet library deprecation.
Nova Instances with UEFI firmware can now be launched with stateless firmware if their
image has the hw_firmware_statelessproperty and if the compute services have libvirt 8.6.0
or later.
OpenStack Dalmatian is not marked as Skip Level Upgrade Release Process or SLURP.
According to this model
(https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20220210-release-cadence-...)
this means that upgrades will only be supported from the Caracal 2024.1 release.
RDO Dalmatian 2024.2 has been built and tested with the recently released Ceph 18.2.0
Reef version (https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/reef/) which has been published by
the CentOS Storage SIG in the official CentOS repositories. *Note:* Follow the
instructions in [RDO documentation](https://www.rdoproject.org/install/install-with-ceph/)
to install OpenStack and Ceph services in the same host.
During the Dalmatian cycle, some projects have been retired or declared inactive upstream.
As such, the following packages for some projects are not present in the RDO Dalmatian
2024.2 release:
python-saharaclient (https://review.rdoproject.org/r/c/rdoinfo/+/54360)
puppet-corosync (https://review.rdoproject.org/r/c/rdoinfo/+/53127)
During the next release we will continue working on retiring inactive packages in order to
ensure RDO content quality and security.
Contributors:
During the Dalmatian cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:
Roman Safronov
Archana Singh
pkomarov komarov
Sergii Golovatiuk
Milana Levy
Liron Kuchlani
Jaromír Wysoglad
Arnau Verdaguer
Andre Aranha
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 51 contributors
who participated in producing this release. This list includes commits to rdo-packages,
rdo-infra, and rdo-website repositories:
Alfredo Moralejo Alonso
Amy Marrich
Ananya Banerjee
Andre Aranha
Archana Singh
Arnau Verdaguer
Artom Lifshitz
Arx Cruz
Bhagyashri Shewale
Bohdan Dobrelia
Cédric Jeanneret
Chandan Kumar
Daniel Pawlik
Douglas Viroel
Fabien Boucher
Fiorella Yanac
Francesco Pantano
Goutham Pacha Ravi
Gregory Thiemonge
Grzegorz Grasza
Harald Jensås
Jaromír Wysoglad
Joan Francesc Gilabert
Joel Capitao
Jon Schlueter
Karolina Kula
Karthik Sundaravel
Lewis Denny
Liron Kuchlani
Lon Hohberger
Luigi Toscano
Maor Blaustein
Marihan Girgis
Marios Andreou
Martin Kopec
Martin Magr
Michael Johnson
Milana Levy
Nicolas Hicher
Pini Komarov
Roman Safronov
Ronelle Landy
Sergii Golovatiuk
Shreshtha Joshi
Soniya Vyas
Steve Baker
Takashi Kajinami
Tobias Urdin
Tristan De Cacqueray
Yadnesh Kulkarni
Yatin Karel
The Next Release Cycle
At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next release i.e Epoxy.
Get Started
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 those that do not have any hardware or physical resources, there is 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(a)lists.rdoproject.org for RDO-specific users and operators.
For more developer-oriented content we recommend joining the dev(a)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://www.rdoproject.org/community/mailing-lists/. You can also find extensive
documentation on RDOproject.org.
The #rdo channel on OFTC 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 IRC
channels (#centos, #centos-cloud, #centos-devel in Libera.Chat network), 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 on the OFTC IRC network and follow us on Twitter @RDOCommunity. You
can also find us on Facebook and YouTube.