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-dalmatian/
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-adjustment.html)
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 us...@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://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.
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