RDO Caracal 2024.1 Released

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack 2024.1 Caracal for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Caracal is the 29th 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-caracal/ 

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/caracal/highlights.html but here are some highlights:


OpenStack Caracal is marked as Skip Level Upgrade Release Process or SLURP. According to this model (https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20220210-release-cadence-adjustment.html) this means that upgrades will only be supported from the Antelope 2023.1 release.

RDO Caracal 2024.1 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 Caracal cycle, some projects have been retired or declared inactive upstream. As such, the following packages for some projects are not present in the RDO Caracal 2024.1 release:


During the next release we will continue working oretiring inactive packages in order to ensure RDO content quality and security

Contributors:


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


The Next Release Cycle
At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next release i.e Dalmatian.

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@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 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.