March 2023 - openstack-discuss - lists.openstack.org

Re: [all] [oslo.messaging] Interest in collaboration on a NATS driver
by Tobias Urdin 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

Hello Kai, Great to hear that you’re interested! I’m currently just testing this as a POC directly in devstack so there is real-world testing (not should it yet I think, needs more development first). Best regards Tobias > On 30 Aug 2022, at 18:32, Kai Bojens <kb(a)kbojens.de> wrote: > > Am 29.08.22 um 15:46 schrieb Tobias Urdin: > >> If anybody, or any company, out there would be interested in collaborating in a project to bring this support and maintain it feel free to >> reach out. I’m hoping somebody will bite but atleast I’ve put it out there for all of you. > > Hi, > I am very much interested to take a closer look at your work and maybe contribute to it. Although I'm working with OpenStack for my employer at the moment, I'd do this in my spare time as I'm not sure that I can convince him to add another staging system with a full OpenStack installation just for developing a RabbitMQ replacement. That's not on our agenda as we are mostly users and not developers of OpenStack. > > As I'm pretty new to the messaging topic and had just heard of NATS and your idea, I'll first would have to dive into NATS and then I would take a closer look at your code and maybe try to create some documentation or tests. So, I can't promise anything but as I said I'm very interested in your approach as I also see the massive load from RabbitMQ. > > This brings me to the most important question: Where do you run and test your code? > > Greetings, > Kai

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[ptl] Need PTL volunteer for OpenStack Vitrage
by Ghanshyam Mann 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Hi Eyal, I am reaching out to you as you were PTL for OpenStack Vitrage project in the last cycle. There is no PTL candidate for the next cycle (2023.2), and it is on the leaderless project list. Please check if you or anyone you know would like to lead this project. - https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/2023.2-leaderless Also, if anyone else would like to help leading this project, this is time to let TC knows. -gmann

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Experience with VGPUs
by Oliver Weinmann 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

Dear All, we are planning to have a POC on VGPUs in our Openstack cluster. Therefore I have a few questions and generally wanted to ask how well VGPUs are supported in Openstack. The docs, in particular: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/zed/admin/virtual-gpu.html explain quite well the general implementation. But I am more interested in general experience with using VGPUs in Openstack. We currently have a small YOGA cluster, planning to upgrade to Zed soon, with a couple of compute nodes. Currently our users use consumer cards like RTX 3050/3060 on their laptops and the idea would be to provide VGPUs to these users. For this I would like to make a very small POC where we first equip one compute node with an Nvidia GPU. Gladly also a few tips on which card would be a good starting point are highly appreciated. I know this heavily depends on the server hardware but this is something I can figure out later. Also do we need additional software licenses to run this? I saw this very nice presentation from CERN on VGPUs: https://indico.cern.ch/event/776411/contributions/3345183/attachments/18516… In the table they are listing Quadro vDWS licenses. I assume we need these in order to use the cards? Also do we need something like Cyborg for this or is VGPU fully implemented in Nova? Best Regards, Oliver

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[ironic] ARM Support in CI: Call for vendors / contributors / interested parties
by Jay Faulkner 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hi stackers, Ironic has published an experimental Ironic Python Agent image for ARM64 ( https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent-builder/dib/file…) and discussed promoting this image to supported via CI testing. However, we have a problem: there are no Ironic developers with easy access to ARM hardware at the moment, and no Ironic developers with free time to commit to improving our support of ARM hardware. So we're putting out a call for help: - If you're a hardware vendor and want your ARM hardware supported? Please come talk to the Ironic community about setting up third-party-CI. - Are you an operator or contributor from a company invested in ARM bare metal? Please come join the Ironic community to help us build this support. Thanks, Jay Faulkner Ironic PTL

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[storlets] Proposal to make Train/Ussuri/Victoria EOL
by Takashi Kajinami 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Hello, Currently we have multiple stable branches open but we haven't seen any backport proposed so far. To reduce number of branches we have to maintain, I'd like to propose retiring old stable branches(train, ussuri and victoria). In case you have any concerns, please let me know. Thank you, Takashi Kajinami

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Kubernetes Conformance 1.24 + 1.25
by Kendall Nelson 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hello All! First of all, I want to say a huge thanks to Guilherme Steinmuller for all his help ensuring that OpenStack Magnum remains Kubernetes Certified [1]! We are certified for v1.24! However, in digging into the set of conformance tests this round, it appears that we will not be able to get 1.25 certified with the current Magnum. This means that in May when we have to re-cert (every 3 months they reach an EOL because that's k8s release cadence) we will not be able to maintain this which is the other part of why I wanted to write this email - to raise awareness and ask for help digging into what needs to happen to make sure we can retain this. Tangentially related, Guilherme has posted a patch with documentation for how to run the conformance tests for yourself and it could use some reviews [2]. And one last thing, I have begun conversation with the opendev folks about what it might take to setup jobs to run the conformance tests periodically so that we don't have to manually run them when it's time to recert. I am planning on submitting a forum topic for this for those interested :) Long live LOKI! - Kendall Nelson [1] https://github.com/cncf/k8s-conformance/pull/2446 [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/magnum/+/849156

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[ironic][stable] Proposing EOL of ironic project branches older than Wallaby
by Jay Faulkner 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Hi all, Ironic has a large amount of stable branches still in EM. We need to take action to ensure those branches are either retired or have CI repaired to the point of being usable. Specifically, I'm looking at these branches across all Ironic projects: - stable/queens - stable/rocky - stable/stein - stable/train - stable/ussuri - stable/victoria In lieu of any volunteers to maintain the CI, my recommendation for all the branches listed above is that they be marked EOL. If someone wants to volunteer to maintain CI for those branches, they can propose one of the below paths be taken instead: 1 - Someone volunteers to maintain these branches, and also report the status of CI of these older branches periodically on the Ironic whiteboard and in Ironic meetings. If you feel strongly that one of these branches needs to continue to be in service; volunteering in this way is how to save them. 2 - We seriously reduce CI. Basically removing all tempest tests to ensure that CI remains reliable and able to merge emergency or security fixes when needed. In some cases; this still requires CI fixes as some older inspector branches are failing *installing packages* in unit tests. I would still like, in this case, that someone volunteers to ensure the minimalist CI remains happy. My intention is to let this message serve as notice and a waiting period; and if I've not heard any response here or in Monday's Ironic meeting (in 6 days), I will begin taking action on retiring these branches. This is simply a start; other branches (including bugfix branches) are also in bad shape in CI, but getting these retired will significantly reduce the surface area of projects and branches to evaluate. I know it's painful to drop support for these branches; but we've provided good EM support for these branches for a long time and by pruning them away, we'll be able to save time to dedicate to other items. Thanks, Jay Faulkner

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[neutron] Deprecate networking-odl project
by Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez 24 May '23

24 May '23

Hello all: During the last releases, the support for "networking-odl" project has decreased. Currently there is no active developer or maintainer in the community. This project depends on https://www.opendaylight.org/; the latest version released is Sulfur (16) while the version still used in the CI is Sodium (11) [1]. I would like first to make a call for developers to update this project. But if this is not possible, I will then start the procedure to deprecate it [2] (**not to retire it**). Regards. [1] https://github.com/openstack/networking-odl/blob/db5c79b3ee5054feb8a17df130… [2] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/repository.html#deprecating-a…

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[heat][magnum][tacker] Future of SoftwareDeployment support
by Takashi Kajinami 10 May '23

10 May '23

Hello, We discussed this briefly in the past thread where we discussed maintenance of os-*-agent repos, and also talked about this topic during Heat PTG, but I'd like to formalize the discussion to get a clear agreement. Heat has been supporting SoftwareDeployment resources to configure software in instances using some agents such as os-collect-config[1]. [1] https://docs.openstack.org/heat/latest/template_guide/software_deployment.h… This feature was initially developed to be used by TripleO (IIUC), but TripleO is retired now and we are losing the first motivation to maintain the feature. # Even TripleO replaced most of its usage of softwaredeployment by config-download lately. Because the heat project team has drunk dramatically recently, we'd like to put more focus on core features. For that aim we are now wondering if we can deprecate and remove this feature, and would like to hear from anyone who has any concerns about this. Quickly looking through the repos, it seems currently Magnum and Tacker are using SoftwareDeployment, and it'd be nice especially if we can understand their current requirements. 1. Magnum It seems SoftwareDeployment is used by k8s_fedora_atomic_v1 driver but I'm not too sure whether this driver is still supported, because Fedora Atomic was EOLed a while ago, right ? 2. Tacker SoftwareDeployment can be found in only test code in the tacker repo. We have some references kept in heat-translator which look related to TOSCA templates. Thank you, Takashi Kajinami

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[horizon][nova][masakari] Instances created with "Any AZ" problem
by Nguyễn Hữu Khôi 02 May '23

02 May '23

Hello guys. I playing with Nova AZ and Masakari https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/admin/availability-zones.html Masakari will move server by nova scheduler. Openstack Docs describe that: If the server was not created in a specific zone then it is free to be moved to other zones, i.e. the AvailabilityZoneFilter <https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/admin/scheduling.html#availabilityzo…> is a no-op. I see that everyone usually creates instances with "Any Availability Zone" on Horzion and also we don't specify AZ when creating instances by cli. By this way, when we use Masakari or we miragrated instances( or evacuate) so our instance will be moved to other zones. Can we attach AZ to server create requests API based on Any Availability Zone to limit instances moved to other zones? Thank you. Regards Nguyen Huu Khoi

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