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<div>My apologies for not sending out our release announcement for RC1 earlier. I had thought I sent it, but don’t see it on the mailing list archive.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">The Kolla community is pleased to announce the release of the Kolla Liberty rc1 milestone. This release fixes 87 bugs and implements 10 blueprints!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">The Kolla Community developed the following notable features in Liberty rc1.</p>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Stable API for communicating with the Containers using JSON for configuration.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">RHEL and OSP container image building implemented.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Logging using rsyslog to single log_data container</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Full OpenStack and Ceph integration and deployment across all services which have storage implementations using ceph
(Cinder, Nova, Glance).</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Vastly improved implementation of Vagrant including libvirt integration.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Murano Ansible and container implementation.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Repository renamed to http://github.com/openstack/kolla.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Ironic Ansible and container implementation in tech preview mode.</span></li></ul>
<p style="margin: 0px;">The following services are now stable and may be deployed multi-node via Ansible:</p>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Ceph implemented with storage for glance images, Nova ephermal storage, and cinder volumes and backups.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Cinder only works with Ceph at this time.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Murano works properly.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Ironic ansible deployment which is selectable between either bare metal or virtualized flavors in Nova + Neutron (hence
the tech preview). Our long term goal to make this technologyfully implemented is to provide an implementation which allows baremetal and virtualized flavors in the same deployment.</span></li></ul>
<p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;">We are in the home stretch of our release towards Liberty targeted for
<u><b>October 15th</b></u>. Lets get a solid liberty-rc2 tagged and available on
<u>October 9th</u>!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Regards,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">- The Kolla Development Team</p>
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