On Tue, 2024-06-18 at 09:14 +0200, Francesco Di Nucci wrote:
Thank you,
I know it's EOL but when asked the training support stated that they do not have a concrete upgrade timeline yet
Maybe I'll try with Tumbleweed, as EL8 is the only other supported OS but Ussuri Devstack has incomplete support for it
the COA exam shoudl not care about how the openstack cloud is installed or really about the version. i have not taken it but my understading is that its not inteded to be disto specific and fouces on the core element that are common to all clouds/installer not the specific fo devstack vs packstack ectra.
so you should be able to use a master cloud ideally 2024.1 the current stable skip level upgrade release with any installer to prepare a cloud to use for the exam.
i woudl also argue that any COA exam that is using an unsupported release shoudl not be able to provide accreditation anymore.
while the core concepts have not change the landscape and feature set of openstack has evoleved alot.
concepts like "Skip level upgrade Releases" and "Secure and consitent RBAC" are just two of the evolutions that have happend since then. that is ignoring the features actully added in the relevneet project and the evolution of technolgies liek the deprecation (and removal?) of policy.json in favor of policy.yaml for configuring custom policy
the COA exam obviouly needs a semi stable base but realisticlly fi its not usign one fo the slurp releases at this point its not testing if the testee actully understand how to adminsiter a cloud that is reasonable to run in production today.
I tried the VM, but the 2019 one is unavailable and the 2020 one does not start with LDDM failure.
Out of curiosity, why does upstream training not happen anymore?
Best regards
Francesco Di Nucci
On 17/06/24 20:36, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
---- On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:22:29 -0700 Francesco Di Nucci wrote --- > Hi, > > I was planning on taking the COA exam, and as it's still tested on the > Ussuri release I wanted to create a local install to get used to the > differences with current releases. > > I have tried with PackStack but there seem to be some never fixed bug > with Galera setup, and with PackStack I wasn't able to make it work on > any "supported" OS > [bionic|stretch|jessie|f30|f31|opensuse-15.2|opensuse-tumbleweed|rhel8] > (either the Python version is too old, or packages install is not > supported on EL8, or repositories have been taken down etc etc...) > > Are there any pre-configured VMs that can be used for training? Or does > anyone know on which OS (outside of the ones before) could a Ussuri > setup with Devstack run?
Ussuri is EOL and the COA exam should be moved to the recent supported releases. Anyway if it is on Ussuri then below is the information on DevStack for your local practice.
DevStack Ussuri supports the below OS versions. The upstream CI has stopped testing it ~6 months before but you can give it a try.
"bionic|stretch|jessie|f30|f31|opensuse-15.2|opensuse-tumbleweed|rhel8)"
For pre-configured VM for training, we used to maintain it when there were upstream training was happening. Below is the location we used to have a working pre-configured VM image but this is really out of date and not sure if it will work or not
Maybe you can try to check if this training page can be helpful for your exam preparation:
-gmann
> > Thank you in advance > > Francesco Di Nucci > > >