The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Zed for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Zed is the 26th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world. As with the Upstream release, this release of RDO is dedicated to Ilya Etingof who was an upstream and RDO contributor. The release is already available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror network in: http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-zed/ The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and maintains a complete OpenStack component set for RHEL and CentOS Stream and is a member of the CentOS Cloud Infrastructure SIG. The Cloud Infrastructure SIG focuses on delivering a great user experience for CentOS users looking to build and maintain their own on-premise, public or hybrid clouds. All work on RDO and on the downstream release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, is 100% open source, with all code changes going upstream first. The highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via https://releases.openstack.org/zed/highlights.html *TripleO in the RDO Zed release:* Since the Xena development cycle, TripleO follows the Independent release model ( https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/tripleo-specs/specs/xena/tripleo-indep... ). For the Zed cycle, TripleO project will maintain and validate stable Zed branches. As for the rest of packages, RDO will update and publish the releases created during the maintenance cycle. *Contributors* During the Zed cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors: - Miguel Garcia Cruces - Michael Johnson - René Ribaud - Paras Babbar - Maurício Harley - Jesse Pretorius - Francesco Pantano - Carlos Eduardo - Arun KV Welcome to all of you and Thank You So Much for participating! But we wouldn’t want to overlook anyone. A super massive Thank You to all *57* contributors who participated in producing this release. This list includes commits to rdo-packages, rdo-infra, and redhat-website repositories: - Adriano Vieira Petrich - Alan Bishop - Alan Pevec - Alfredo Moralejo Alonso - Amol Kahat - Amy Marrich - Ananya Banerjee - Arun KV - Arx Cruz - Bhagyashri Shewale - Carlos Eduardo - Chandan Kumar - Cédric Jeanneret - Daniel Pawlik - Dariusz Smigiel - Douglas Viroel - Emma Foley - Eric Harney - Fabien Boucher - Francesco Pantano - Gregory Thiemonge - Jakob Meng - Jesse Pretorius - Jiří Podivín - Joel Capitao - Jon Schlueter - Julia Kreger - Karolina Kula - Leif Madsen - Lon Hohberger - Luigi Toscano - Marios Andreou - Martin Kopec - Mathieu Bultel - Matthias Runge - Maurício Harley - Michael Johnson - Miguel Garcia Cruces - Nate Johnston - Nicolas Hicher - Paras Babbar - Pooja Jadhav - Rabi Mishra - Rafael Castillo - René Ribaud/780 - Riccardo Pittau - Ronelle Landy - Sagi Shnaidman - Sandeep Yadav - Sean Mooney - Shreshtha Joshi - Slawomir Kaplonski - Steve Baker - Takashi Kajinami - Tobias Urdin - Tristan De Cacqueray - Yatin Karel *The Next Release Cycle* At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next release i.e Antelope. *Get Started* To spin up a proof of concept cloud, quickly, and on limited hardware, try an All-In-One Packstack installation. You can run RDO on a single node to get a feel for how it works. Finally, for those that don’t have any hardware or physical resources, there’s the OpenStack Global Passport Program. This is a collaborative effort between OpenStack public cloud providers to let you experience the freedom, performance and interoperability of open source infrastructure. You can quickly and easily gain access to OpenStack infrastructure via trial programs from participating OpenStack public cloud providers around the world. *Get Help* The RDO Project has our users@lists.rdoproject.org for RDO-specific users and operators. For more developer-oriented content we recommend joining the dev@lists.rdoproject.org mailing list. Remember to post a brief introduction about yourself and your RDO story. The mailing lists archives are all available at https://mail.rdoproject.org. You can also find extensive documentation on RDOproject.org. The #rdo channel on OFTC IRC is also an excellent place to find and give help. We also welcome comments and requests on the CentOS devel mailing list and the CentOS and TripleO IRC channels (#centos, #centos-devel in Libera.Chat network, and #tripleo on OFTC), however we have a more focused audience within the RDO venues. *Get Involved* To get involved in the OpenStack RPM packaging effort, check out the RDO contribute pages, peruse the CentOS Cloud SIG page, and inhale the RDO packaging documentation. Join us in #rdo and #tripleo on the OFTC IRC network and follow us on Twitter @RDOCommunity. You can also find us on Facebook and YouTube.