RDO Bobcat Released

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack 2023.2 Bobcat  for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Bobcat is the 28th 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-bobcat/ 

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.

The highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/highlights.html but here are some highlights:

• New Cinder driver features were added, notably, QoS support for Fujitsu ETERNUS DX driver, replication-enabled consistency groups support for Pure Storage driver, and Active/Active support for NetApp NFS driver.

• Glance added support for RBD driver to move images to the trash if they cannot be deleted immediately due to having snapshots.

• The Neutron service has enabled the new API policies (RBAC) with system scope and default roles by default.

• The Nova legacy quota driver is now deprecated and a nova-manage limits command is provided in order to migrate the orginal limits into Keystone. We plan to change the default quota driver to the unified limits driver in an upcoming release. It is recommended that you begin planning and executing a migration to unified limits as soon as possible.

OpenStack Bobcat is not 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 Bobcat 2023.2 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 Bobcat 2023.2 development cycle, the RDO community has implemented automatic dependency detection at run and build time. We expect that these changes will lead to more accurate dependency chains in OpenStack packages and less manual maintenance tasks for community maintainers.

Following upstream retirement, some packages are not present in RDO Bobcat 2023.2 release:

• python-networking-odl

• python-networking-omnipath

• python-networking-vmware-nsx

• python-oswin-tests-tempest

• python-os-xenapi

• python-patrole

• python-stackviz

• python-vmware-nsxlib

• python-vmware-nsx-tests-tempest

Contributors

• During the Bobcat cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:

• Arkady Shtempler

• Dariusz Smigiel

• Dave Wilde

• Fabricio Aguiar

• Jakub Skunda

• Joan Francesc Gilabert

• Maor Blaustein

• Mohammad Abunemeh

• Szymon Datko

• Yadnesh Kulkarni

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:

• Alfredo Moralejo Alonso

• Amy Marrich 

• Ananya Banerjee

• Arkady Shtempler

• Artom Lifshitz

• Arx Cruz

• Bhagyashri Shewale

• Bohdan Dobrelia

• Chandan Kumar

• Daniel Pawlik

• Dariusz Smigiel

• Dave Wilde

• Douglas Viroel

• Enrique Vallespi Gil

• Fabricio Aguiar

• Giulio Fidente

• Goutham Pacha Ravi

• Gregory Thiemonge

• Grzegorz Grasza

• Ihar Hrachyshka

• Jakub Skunda

• Jiří Podivín

• Jiří Stránský

• Joan Francesc Gilabert

• Joel Capitao

• Karolina Kula

• Karthik Sundaravel

• Luca Miccini

• Lucas Alvares Gomes

• Luigi Toscano

• Luis Tomas Bolivar

• Maor Blaustein

• Marios Andreou

• Mathieu Bultel

• Matthias Runge

• Mohammad Abunemeh

• Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez

• Ronelle Landy

• Sandeep Yadav

• Slawomir Kaplonski

• Soniya29 vyas

• Szymon Datko

• Takashi Kajinami

• Tobias Urdin

• Tom Weininger

• Yadnesh Kulkarni

• Yatin Karel

The Next Release Cycle

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

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.

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 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.