---- On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:08:44 -0500 Mark Goddard <mark@stackhpc.com> wrote ----
Hi,
For the Victoria release we will be moving our Ubuntu support from Bionic 18.04 to the Focal 20.04 LTS release. This applies to both the base container image and host OS.
We would like to request feedback from any Ubuntu users about how they typically deal with a distro upgrade like this. I would assume that the following workflow would be used:
1. start with a Ussuri release on Bionic 2. distro upgrade to Focal 3. OpenStack upgrade to Victoria
However, that would imply that it would not be possible to make any more changes to the Ussuri deploy after the Focal upgrade, since Kolla Ansible Ussuri release does not support Focal (it is blocked by prechecks).
An alternative approach is:
1. start with a Ussuri release on Bionic 2. OpenStack upgrade to Victoria 3. distro upgrade to Focal
I am not ubuntu user or not done such upgrade but I think later approach is a better way. Ussuri release for sure will not work on Focal ( by seeing the fixes in various projects for Focal migration.). Victoria still is tested on Bionic so it is surly tested till we move our testing to Focal. -gmann
This implies that Victoria must support both Bionic and Focal as a host OS, which it currently does. This flow matches more closely what we are currently testing in CI (steps 1 and 2 only).
In both cases, Victoria container images are based on Focal.
Feedback on this would be appreciated.
Thanks, Mark