Hi All
Thanks to all who participated in the PTG discussions. We had some good sessions where we tackled thorny issues in the charms deployments of OpenStack.
A brief set of highlights is:
- The store holding all the charms (https://jaas.ai/) just happens to be migrating to a new home (https://charmhub.io/) within the timescales of the Yoga cycle and some of the changes in behaviour provide some challenges and also opportunities to both simplify the charms and provide a better operator experience. The discussions highlighted the pain points and the general direction that the migration could take around:
- Charm upgrades
- OpenStack upgrades
- Series upgrades of the underlying operating system.
- The charms deployment of OpenStack supports versions back to mitaka (pre yoga) and queens (yoga cycle onwards). This has recently presented challenges around Python 3 support, particularly with py35 being EOL September 2020, and with py36 (bionic LTS) EOL 23rd December 2021. We discussed various strategies and approaches around maintenance, security and support of queens onwards in terms of support and upgrades.
- The charms team also maintains a CI infrastructure based on Jenkins and (more recently) self-hosted Zuul to test installation and upgrade of OpenStack solutions. We discussed the further migrations of services from Jenkins to Zuul and issues associated with it.
- Discussions around building new charms and refreshing old charms for the new components and features in the previous xena cycle and oncoming yoga cycle.
Thank you again for all the participation in setting the direction and priorities for the yoga cycle.