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[neutron] Drivers meeting canceled Friday, December 12th
by Brian Haley 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Hello Neutrinos: I am going to cancel Friday's Drivers meeting as I will be out the rest of the week. Just a reminder that our open spec list at [0]. Have a nice weekend! -Brian [0] https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+project:openstack/neutron-specs

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[neutron] Neutron L3 HA Issue: Packet Loss and Route Flapping After Restarting openvswitch-vswitchd on Active Controller
by soheil.bakan＠gmail.com 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Hi OpenStack Community, I am experiencing an issue in a 3-controller HA OpenStack environment related to Neutron L3 HA and Open vSwitch. I would appreciate your guidance or any insights. ### Environment - OpenStack version: 2025.1 - 3 controller nodes with HA setup (kolla-ansible) - Neutron L3 HA enabed - OVS + Keepalived (VRRP) - The router’s VRRP master role is currently on one controller - All controllers share the same external/provider network setup ### Issue Description When I restart the `openvswitch-vswitchd` service on the controller node that currently holds the VRRP Master for an HA router: The following problems occur: 1. ICMP traffic (ping) drops for several minutes. 2. The router’s default route begins to bounce between the other two or three controllers. 3. The VRRP master does not stabilize quickly; it keeps flipping between the remaining controllers. 4. As a result, I see packet loss and routing instability for several seconds. ### What I expect Ideally, when `openvswitch-vswitchd` restarts on the master controller: - VRRP should quickly fail over to one of the standby controllers routers - The default route should converge and remain stable - There should be no (or minimal) packet loss I should also say what when i restart neutron_l3_agent or in some cases openvswitch_db issue goes away ### Additional Information If needed, I can share: - Logs from OVS, neutron-l3-agent Thanks in advance for your support. Please let me know if more information is needed. best regards, soheil

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[stable][unmaintained] Move old Unmaintained branches to EOL
by Elõd Illés 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Dear OpenStack Community, A bit more than two years ago the Unmaintained state was formalized [1] to signal towards the community that branches beyond the official maintained phase are not officially supported by the project teams themselves, rather by volunteers with interests to keep these branches open for co-operation and bug fix backports. This requires CI maintenance time to time, as CI jobs, infrastructure, packaging and build tools might also change under these legacy unmaintained branches. My employer, Ericsson, chose to support this process for further co- operation on these legacy branches and we stepped up as maintainer for unmaintained branches back till unmaintained/victoria as a starter, as long as it is feasible. Unfortunately, in the past months the point is reached where multiple gate jobs got broken, CI infrastructure elements (old ubuntu versions, old python versions) went to End of Life, too, and keeping meaningful testing [2] functional, is harder and harder on the oldest unmaintained/* branches [3]. Given these circumstances, I'm officially initiating to move old unmaintained branches to End of Life, starting with Victoria, and up till Yoga. I'll prepare the transition patches next week. Thanks to all, who helped with these old branches for this long. Sincerely, Előd Illés irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release / #openstack-stable / #openstack-unmaintained [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20230724-unmaintained-branc… [2] there were arguments about making it possible to merge patches without tempest or even without any tests, but that is something that we should avoid in my opinion as we cannot be sure that we don't introduce regressions if there were no proper testing and no one would want to consume untested code. [3] ubuntu-bionic node type is removed, py36 based jobs disappeared, tempest jobs started to fail with some test cases and with that, grenade jobs as well, etc.

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migrate ovs to ovn
by Eduardo Morais 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Hey, good afternoon. My name is Eduardo and I’m new to OpenStack. At my job I have a task to migrate OVS to OVN, and I was able to do that, but I have a small question about a problem I'm facing after restarting my environment. When I restart my testing VM and try again, after the migration I get an error message in the Neutron logs about a duplicate entry. The message says that OVN is trying to insert information into the providerresourceassociations table, but the table already has that information and OpenStack works with it. However, after the restart, OpenStack crashes. To make it work again, I have to manually delete the existing entry so the new one can be inserted, and after doing that the problem does not happen anymore, send now for the correct mail, i think.

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[octavia] Weekly Octavia IRC meeting cancelled until January 7th
by Michael Johnson 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Hello everyone, With the holiday season occurring in various parts of the world, we decided at today's meeting that we will cancel the weekly IRC meeting until January 7th, 2026. I look forward to chatting with you all in the new year! Michael

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Kolla-ansible Openstack deployment failed in nova-compute task
by ldemarco＠sinthera.com 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Hi guys, In my first openstack deploy I facing an error in deployment phase. The bootstrap-servers phase and the prechecks phase working fine but the deploy phase stop to work in nova-compute task deployment with the following error [ERROR]: Task failed: Action failed. Origin: /root/kolla-venv/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/roles/nova-cell/tasks/wait_discover_computes.yml:24:7 22 expected_compute_service_hosts: "{{ virt_compute_service_hosts + ironic_compute_service_hosts }}" 23 block: 24 - name: Waiting for nova-compute services to register themselves looking for the nova-compute docker logs I found this event ERROR MissingRequiredSource: /var/lib/kolla/config_files/ceph.client.cinder.keyring file is not found I would you like to point out that the ceph keyring are created and copied to /etc/koll/config/nova in deployment host and /etc/ceph in all openstack host. Some one could help me for fix the issue ? Regards Luca

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[nova] How to use $aggregates with JsonFilter
by Andy Speagle 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Hey Team, I'm trying to use scheduler hints using the JsonFilter that involve host aggregates. Based on the documentation and my quick perusal of the scheduler's HostState class... it seems like $aggregates are populated there for usage, but I can't seem to find the right magick to make a json query work to schedule an instance on a host that belongs to a specific aggregate based on simply the name of the aggregate... or perhaps metadata contained within. I think my lack of understanding of the structure of the $aggregates list in the scheduler's HostState class is tripping me up. Does anyone have any insight into this?... Thanks. -- Andy Speagle

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[qa] This week QA office hour is canceled
by Ghanshyam Maan 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

Hi All, This week QA office hour is canceled. - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/QATeamMeeting -gmaan

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[tc][all] OpenStack Technical Committee Weekly Summary and Meeting Agenda (2026.1/R-16)
by Goutham Pacha Ravi 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Hello Stackers, We're sixteen weeks away from the date of the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. Project teams are reviewing design specifications and observing spec freezes to advance designs to the implementation phase. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee didn't merge any new governance updates; however, a few change proposals are undergoing community review. We're looking for volunteers to shadow the election officials as they set up and run the TC and PTL elections for the 2026.2 release cycle. If you're interested, please reach out to me, or drop by the #openstack-election IRC channel on OFTC. === Weekly Meeting === The last meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee occurred on December 2nd, 2025, in the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC [2]. The TC reviewed several outstanding tasks, one of which was the direction in which the FIPS compliance goal was proceeding. This cross-project goal [3] is being moved back to "proposed" status, seeking feedback regarding testing and a goal champion. The focus of the meeting was a deep dive into the friction surrounding significant changes within the community. The TC acknowledged a growing sentiment that existing governance processes are perceived as "bad bureaucracy," creating a situation where policies suffer from "bit rot." For example, we've long had a PTI for Golang despite a lack of actual use—because contributors feel that attempting to update these rules is futile or destined for rejection. We debated potential remedies, such as reviving the "Ideas" repository [4], but concluded that the root issue lies in some outdated guiding documents and practices. The consensus was that the challenges in making big changes stem from a misalignment between current reality and codified policy, leading to a culture where contributors assume the rules cannot be touched. Consequently, we noted that we'd like to review and rewrite the "Technical Vision" document [5]. Since vision statements are intended to be time-bounded, the current version should be considered obsolete. We hope that refreshing this high-level document will serve as the foundation to subsequently prune outdated policies and demonstrate that the community's norms are not immutable. This discussion will continue in this week's meeting that will be held today, December 9th, 2025, in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC at 1700 UTC. Please see the agenda on the meeting's wiki page [6]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open For Review ==== - Show SIG repositories on the SIGs page | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/967425 - Alter public cloud SIG chair | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/969371 - Move FIPS Compliance goal back to proposed | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/969145 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-12-09: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-12-12: Athens OpenStack User Group Meetup: https://meetup.com/athens-openstack-user-group/events/312235216 - 2025-12-16: Twelve Clouds of Christmas: https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-austin/events/312269596 - 2026-01-08: 2026.1 Milestone 2 - 2026-01-27: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [2] TC Meeting IRC Log, Dec 2 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-12-02-17.00.html [3] FIPS Compliance Goal: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/fips.html [4] Ideas for OpenStack: https://governance.openstack.org/ideas/ [5] Vision for OpenStack Clouds: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html [6] TC Meeting Agenda, Dec 9 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting

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[octavia] compute id for a Octavia pool member
by Max Harmathy 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Hello OpenStack community, I regularly face the following problem: From time to time I get notified about issues with some load-balancers where often the issue lies in connectivity between the health monitor and some of the pool members. Now for investigating the problem I often need to know the ID of the server (compute id) for a certain pool member. I haven't found a straightforward way, since the information the OpenStack client provides for a given pool member (openstack loadbalancer member show ...) doesn't include the compute id. I usually try to find out the IP address of the pool member and then match that against the list of servers. But that process is quite tedious. Is there a better way to do this natively or has someone made a tool for that job? Regards, Max -- Max Harmathy UhuruTec AG Tel +49 151 16 341 719 max.harmathy(a)uhurutec.com https://www.uhurutec.com Industriestraße 4 D-70565 Stuttgart Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Maximilian Buchberger Vorstand: Matthias Haag, Jan Klippel Registergericht Stuttgart, HRB 785603 USt-IdNr: DE354021144

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