Open Stack

Hi!

It's my pleasure to announce the general availability of OpenStack
Victoria in Debian.

I've just finished uploading everything to Debian Unstable today, and
the Buster backports are available the usual way, for example using
extrepo (which is in the official Debian backports):

apt-get install extrepo
extrepo enable openstack_victoria
apt-get update
...

or directly setting-up the buster-victoria.debian.net repository the
usual way.

New in this release
===================

As all projects are deprecating the policy.json files, all of the
services are now using a /etc/<PROJECT>/policy.d/00_default_policy.yaml.
The normal /etc/<PROJECT>/policy.json will be automatically deleted, as
it can be a problem if it remains. Looking backward, a sensible rename
to get the file away would have been nicer to Debian users, so this will
be implemented soonish.

Implementation in openstack-cluster-installer
=============================================

Victoria can already be installed by OCI. The only issue that remains to
be fixed, is puppet-openstack setting-up a /etc/keystone/puppet.conf
wrongly in the controllers. Once the file contains the correct things,
deployment can go on.

Also, it looks like LVM volume nodes still need some fixes.

Apart from these early glitches, everything seems working smoothly so
far, and of course, these will be addressed soon.

I'll be testing upgrades using the usual
oci-cluster-upgrade-openstack-release script.

Testing Victoria over Bullseye and Python 3.9
=============================================

The day OpenStack was released, Python 3.9 was uploaded to Debian
Unstable. I've already sent a few patches to address some problems, but
I haven't yet fully deployed OpenStack on top of Bullseye. Since
Victoria will be the release for Bullseye, I will spend time polishing
all of this before the forthcoming freeze in February. Hopefully, I'll
also be able to finish scripting for upgrading a cluster from Buster to
Bullseye before the freeze, just like one was shipped in OCI for Stretch
to Buster upgrades.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)