September 2025 - openstack-discuss

[openstack-ansible]Add Banner on openstack login page
by keshav bareja 27 Sep '25

27 Sep '25

Hi Team We need to add a banner or notification with a custom text on the openstack login page. Is there any way to do that ? openstack-ansible Carcal release 2024.1 Horizon 29.2.2 Regards Keshav Bareja

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[ops][largescale-sig] Refactoring Ops-related activities - a discussion at the PTG
by Thierry Carrez 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Hi everyone, We have several groups working in the OpenStack community to propose activities and content that are relevant to OpenStack operators: - The Ops meetup[1] group, currently producing Ops Radio Hour - The Large Scale SIG[2], producing the Scaling Journey documentation and the Large Scale OpenStack webinars - The Public Cloud SIG and the Scientific SIG, which focus on specific usage cases - Probably others that I miss... All of those groups overlap, and struggle with gathering enough volunteers to drive them forward. The fragmentation also hurts their discoverability for OpenStack operators out there, who are hungry to learn about the challenges of operating OpenStack and would like to hear more from the teams that do that successfully. I'd like to propose an open discussion at the PTG next month on how to refactor our ops-facing activities under a single, visible, and active banner. I propose we take a PTG meeting slot on Friday, October 31, at 16utc to discuss that with all interested volunteers. Thoughts, comments? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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[release] Release countdown for week R+0
by Thierry Carrez 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Development Focus ----------------- We will be releasing the coordinated OpenStack 2025.2 "Flamingo" release next week, on October 1st, 2025. Thanks to everyone involved in the 2025.2 "Flamingo" cycle! We are now in pre-release freeze, so no new deliverable will be created until final release, unless a release-critical regression is spotted. Otherwise, teams attending the PTG should start to plan what they will be discussing there, by creating and filling team etherpads. You can access the list of PTG etherpads at: http://ptg.openstack.org/etherpads.html General Information ------------------- On release day, the release team will produce final versions of deliverables following the cycle-with-rc release model, by re-tagging the commit used for the last RC. A patch doing just that will be proposed. PTLs and release liaisons should watch for that final release patch from the release team. While not required, we would appreciate having an ack from each team before we approve it on the 1st, so that their approval is included in the metadata that goes onto the signed tag. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Final 2025.2 "Flamingo" release: October 1st, 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe: October 17th-19th, 2025 OpenStack PTG (virtual): October 27th-31st, 2025 -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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For Information
by Suraj Silwal 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

I am just participating, I need get to go , please help me how I set up and contribute in openstack.

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[openstack-ansible][ussuri] moving openstack deployment node to other host
by Danish Khan 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

Dear Team, Our controller1 node which was also openstack deployment node somehow crashed and is not accessible now. I am trying to make controller3 as new deployment node. Below is the step which I am planning to follow. I have backup of (openstack-ansible, openstack_deploy and ansible directory of controller1 ): 1. Place /opt/openstack-ansible directory from controller1 to controller3 2. copy /etc/openstack_deploy directory from controller1 to controller3 3. copy /etc/ansible/ directory from controller1 to controller3 4. run bootstrap on controller3 5. test if openstack-ansible has picked same clusters and inventory. Can someone please suggest if this is correct approach or if I am missing something. Regard, Danish

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[kolla] [swift] Seeking reviews for reinstating Swift support for 2025.2
by Amir Hossein Ahmadi 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

Hello Kolla and OpenStack community, A few months ago, Swift support was removed from the Kolla project due to several challenges, including the need for role modernization, the lack of dedicated maintainership, and persistent CI failures. Following that, I volunteered to take on this effort. Over the last few months, I have been working to address these issues and am happy to report significant progress: - *Modernized Roles:* The Swift roles have been fully updated to align with the latest Kolla and Kolla-Ansible development standards. - *Reliable CI:* The associated Zuul jobs are now consistently green, with all tests successfully validated. - *Maintainership:* I have stepped up to maintain the Swift service within Kolla, ensuring its long-term health and stability. A considerable amount of effort has been invested to ensure this implementation is robust and maintainable for the community. With the *2025.2 release deadline just four weeks away*, the final and most critical step is to get these patches reviewed and merged. Your feedback and reviews are crucial to landing this work in time for the release. Reinstating Swift support would be a valuable addition for many operators. Any time you can spare to look over the patches would be greatly appreciated. You can find the main patch series here: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22dev-swift-modernization%22 Thank you for your consideration and for all your contributions to the OpenStack community. Best regards, Amir Hossein (IRC: amir58118)

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[largescale-sig] Next meeting: September 23, 14utc
by Thierry Carrez 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Hi everyone, The Large Scale SIG will be meeting this Wednesday in #openstack-operators on OFTC IRC at 14UTC. You can doublecheck how that UTC time translates locally at: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250923T14 Feel free to add topics to the agenda: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/large-scale-sig-meeting Regards, -- Thierry Carrez

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Upgrade Caracal --> Epoxy obstacles
by Eugen Block 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Good morning, I just wanted to share some of our experience from this week when we upgraded our production cloud from Caracal to Epoxy (and also Ubuntu 22.04 --> 24.04). It wasn't as easy as previous upgrades, there were a couple of obstacles on the way. # RabbitMQ The main issue was rabbitmq, I'd say. Since the rabbitmq version was 3.9 on Jammy, we had to get to 3.12 for Noble. I had tried a lot of things in my test environment, in the end I decided to reduce the number of rabbitmq hosts to one, upgraded it with podman from 3.9 to 3.10 to 3.11 to enable the feature flags required for 3.12 (all still under Jammy). Then I could upgrade the OS to Noble so the package based rabbitmq-server would start successfully. # Database The recent thread about older password hashes (https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack…) was helpful, we set the same passwords for those system users that came up in the MySQL query, and we didn't notice any issue. But there were two issues we had to deal with regarding the database: During nova-manage db sync we got these errors: 2025-09-22 14:08:19 2 [ERROR] Incorrect definition of table mysql.column_stats: expected column 'hist_type' at position 9 to have type enum('SINGLE_PREC_HB','DOUBLE_PREC_HB','JSON_HB'), fou nd type enum('SINGLE_PREC_HB','DOUBLE_PREC_HB'). 2025-09-22 14:08:19 2 [ERROR] Incorrect definition of table mysql.column_stats: expected column 'histogram' at position 10 to have type longblob, found type varbinary(255). This had not popped up during my tests, but our production database is around 10 years old when we started with our OpenStack journey, my test environment is quite new. What fixed it was: mysql_upgrade check-if-upgrade-is-needed Then there's another thing I have to fully grasp yet, but we now have a ".local" directory in /var/lib/mysql: find /var/lib/mysql/.local/share/containers/storage/ /var/lib/mysql/.local/share/containers/storage/ /var/lib/mysql/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod /var/lib/mysql/.local/share/containers/storage/db.sql Which mysql_upgrade didn't like. I assume that podman created that, but I'm not sure why (I only created a rabbitmq pod). Anyway, I removed that directory so I could proceed with the db sync commands to complete the upgrade process. In my test cloud I removed podman, then restarted galera and the directory is gone, so that's what I'm gonna do in the production as well. # opentack-client Then there are these messages during every openstack command: Could not load 'message_list': module 'zaqarclient.queues.v2.cli' has no attribute 'OldListMessages' Could not load 'message_post': module 'zaqarclient.queues.v2.cli' has no attribute 'OldPostMessages' I'll need to check if they impact any of our scripts, we don't use zaqar, but removing that package would also remove heat, so that won't be possible. # nova-compute: I waited for version 19.2.1 of librbd1 to be released, otherwise nova-compute would fail: qemu-block-extra : Depends: librbd1 (>= 19.2.1-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) but 19.2.0-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 is to be installed # neutron-metadata-agent There's a bug for functioning agents showing as dead, applying the mentioned patches fixes it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2112492 # Pacemaker We use pacemaker for high availability and during the dist-upgrade I had to run 'apt --fix broken', then remove resource-agents and resource-agents-base to get through the dist-upgrade, then install pacemaker and crmsh again afterwards. Not sure if anyone will read this far, but I wanted to get that off my chest. ;-) So obviously, most of the issues weren't really OpenStack issues, but I wanted to share this experience anyway. If you read this far, thanks! ;-) Regards, Eugen

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[kolla] Weekly meeting cancelled today (24th Sep 2025)
by Michał Nasiadka 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Hello, Apologies for bad timing, but the weekly meeting is cancelled today due to lack of key participants. See you next week! Michal

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[ops][largescale-sig][scientific-sig] Ops Radio Hour on September 26, 2025
by Ildiko Vancsa 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Hi OpenStack community, I'm reaching out to you with a friendly reminder that the next OpenStack Ops Radio Hour[1] is scheduled to happen on __September 26th, 2025 at 1300UTC.__ The call series is a casual setting for operators, engineers, and contributors to come together, share knowledge, and collaborate on the complexities of managing and deploying OpenStack environments. Topics the next gathering will dive into: - (SWIFT) Compliance processes If you have further topics you would like to dive into during the call, please add them to this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack_ops_radiohour A few reminders: - The group on the call agreed to try out Matrix as a chat platform for more synchronous communication outside calls + You can access the Matrix room here: https://matrix.to/#/#openstack-ops:opendev.org<https://matrix.to/#/%23openstack-ops:opendev.org> + Further details are here: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack… - If you would like to read and catch up on notes from previous calls, you can find them in this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack_ops_radiohour See you on the call on September 26th! Bets Regards, Ildikó [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations/Meetups

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