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The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the
RDO build for OpenStack Stein for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and
hybrid clouds. Stein is the 19th release from the OpenStack project, which
is the work of more than 1200 contributors <http://stackalytics.com/> from
around the world.
The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-stein/.
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
<https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud>;. 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
<https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/openstack-platform>;,
is 100% open source, with all code changes going upstream first.
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Interesting things in the Stein release
<https://releases.openstack.org/stein/highlights.html> include:
-
Ceph Nautilus <https://ceph.com/releases/v14-2-0-nautilus-released/> is
the default version of Ceph, a free-software storage platform, implements
object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides
interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage, within RDO (or is it
the default without OpenStack?). Within Nautilus, the Ceph Dashboard has
gained a lot of new functionality like support for multiple users / roles,
SSO (SAMLv2) for user authentication, auditing support, a new landing page
showing more metrics and health info, I18N support, and REST API
documentation with Swagger API.
-
The extracted Placement service
<https://docs.openstack.org/placement/latest/usage/index.html>;, used to
track cloud resource inventories and usages to help other services
effectively manage and allocate their resources, is now packaged as part of
RDO. Placement has added the ability to target a candidate resource
provider, easing specifying a host for workload migration, increased API
performance by 50% for common scheduling operations, and simplified the
code by removing unneeded complexity, easing future maintenance.
Other improvements include:
- The TripleO deployment service <http://tripleo.org/>;, used to develop
and maintain tooling and infrastructure able to deploy OpenStack in
production, using OpenStack itself wherever possible, added support for
podman and buildah for containers and container images. Open Virtual
Network (OVN) is now the default network configuration and TripleO now has
improved composable network support for creating L3 routed networks and
IPV6 network support.
Contributors
During the Stein cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:
- Sławek Kapłoński
- Tobias Urdin
- Lee Yarwood
- Quique Llorente
- Arx Cruz
- Natal Ngétal
- Sorin Sbarnea
- Aditya Vaja
- Panda
- Spyros Trigazis
- Cyril Roelandt
- Pranali Deore
- Grzegorz Grasza
- Adam Kimball
- Brian Rosmaita
- Miguel Duarte Barroso
- Gauvain Pocentek
- Akhila Kishore
- Martin Mágr
- Michele Baldessari
- Chuck Short
- Gorka Eguileor
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
74 contributors who participated in producing this release. This list
includes commits to rdo-packages and rdo-infra repositories:
- yatin
- Sagi Shnaidman
- Wes Hayutin
- Rlandy
- Javier Peña
- Alfredo Moralejo
- Bogdan Dobrelya
- Sławek Kapłoński
- Alex Schultz
- Emilien Macchi
- Lon
- Jon Schlueter
- Luigi Toscano
- Eric Harney
- Tobias Urdin
- Chandan Kumar
- Nate Johnston
- Lee Yarwood
- rabi
- Quique Llorente
- Chandan Kumar
- Luka Peschke
- Carlos Goncalves
- Arx Cruz
- Kashyap Chamarthy
- Cédric Jeanneret
- Victoria Martinez de la Cruz
- Bernard Cafarelli
- Natal Ngétal
- hjensas
- Tristan de Cacqueray
- Marc Dequènes (Duck)
- Juan Antonio Osorio Robles
- Sorin Sbarnea
- Rafael Folco
- Nicolas Hicher
- Michael Turek
- Matthias Runge
- Giulio Fidente
- Juan Badia Payno
- Zoltan Caplovic
- agopi
- marios
- Ilya Etingof
- Steve Baker
- Aditya Vaja
- Panda
- Florian Fuchs
- Martin André
- Dmitry Tantsur
- Sylvain Baubeau
- Jakub Ružička
- Dan Radez
- Honza Pokorny
- Spyros Trigazis
- Cyril Roelandt
- Pranali Deore
- Grzegorz Grasza
- Bnemec
- Adam Kimball
- Haikel Guemar
- Daniel Mellado
- Bob Fournier
- Nmagnezi
- Brian Rosmaita
- Ade Lee
- Miguel Duarte Barroso
- Alan Bishop
- Gauvain Pocentek
- Akhila Kishore
- Martin Mágr
- Michele Baldessari
- Chuck Short
- Gorka Eguileor
The Next Release Cycle
At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next, Train,
which has an estimated GA the week of 14-18 October 2019. The full schedule
is available at https://releases.openstack.org/train/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 13-14
June 2019 for Milestone One and 16-20 September 2019 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
<https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack/>;. 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
<https://www.rdoproject.org/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
<https://www.openstack.org/passport>;. 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(a)lists.rdoproject.org
<https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> for RDO-specific
users and operrators. For more developer-oriented content we recommend
joining the dev(a)lists.rdoproject.org mailing list
<https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev>;. Remember to post a
brief introduction about yourself and your RDO story. The mailing lists
archives are all available at https://mail.rdoproject.org
<https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo>;. You can also find
extensive documentation on RDOproject.org <https://www.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 mailing lists
<https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo> 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 <https://www.rdoproject.org/contribute/>;, peruse the CentOS
Cloud SIG page <https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud>;, and
inhale the RDO packaging documentation
<https://www.rdoproject.org/documentation/rdo-packaging/>;.
Join us in #rdo on the Freenode IRC network and follow us on Twitter
@RDOCommunity <http://twitter.com/rdocommunity/>;. You can also find us on
Facebook <https://facebook.com/rdocommunity> and YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYIPZ4lm4P3_pzZ9Hx9awg>;.
--
K Rain Leander
OpenStack Community Liaison
Open Source and Standards Team
https://www.rdoproject.org/
http://community.redhat.com
