Today we are announcing the start of the deprecation cycle for neutron-lbaas and neutron-lbaas-dashboard. As part of the neutron stadium evolution [1], neutron-lbaas was identified as a project that should spin out of neutron and become its own project. The specification detailing this process was approved [2] during the newton OpenStack release cycle.
OpenStack load balancing no longer requires deep access into the neutron code base and database. All of the required networking capabilities are now available via stable APIs. This change de-couples the load balancing release versioning from the rest of the OpenStack deployment. Since Octavia uses stable APIs when interacting with other OpenStack services, you can run a different version of Octavia in relation to your OpenStack cloud deployment. Per OpenStack deprecation policy, both projects will continue to receive support and bug fixes during the deprecation cycle, but no new features will be added to either project. All future feature enhancements will now occur on the Octavia project(s) [3]. We are not announcing the end of the deprecation cycle at this time, but it will follow OpenStack policy of at least two release cycles prior to retirement. This means that the first release that these projects could be retired would be the âTâ OpenStack release cycle. We have created a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) wiki page to help answer additional questions you may have about this process: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/LBaaS/Deprecation For more information or if you have additional questions, please see the following resources: The FAQ: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/LBaaS/Deprecation The Octavia documentation: https://docs.openstack.org/octavia/latest/ Reach out to us via IRC on the Freenode IRC network, channel #openstack-lbaas Weekly Meeting: 20:00 UTC on Wednesdays in #openstack-lbaas on the Freenode IRC network. Sending email to the OpenStack developer mailing list: openstack-dev [at] lists [dot] openstack [dot] org. Please prefix the subject with '[openstack-dev][Octavia]' Thank you for your support and patience during this transition, Michael Johnson Octavia PTL [1] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/newton/neutron-stadium.html [2] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/newton/kill-neutron-lbaas.html [3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/octavia.html __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
