Oh really, I hadn't considered that difference - thanks! We'll get to
work on testing that. Upgrade to Victoria went flawlessly yesterday
(except for one small mistake) for control plane and compute. Now we get
to rebuild and upgrade nodes to Ubuntu Focal, and get ready for Wallaby.
Now we've made the investment to get properly moved into Kolla
Ansible[1], our upgrade sequence is far smoother than before.

Regards,
Greg.

[1] One final hat tip to you Pierre for the excellent
https://www.stackhpc.com/migrating-to-kolla.html we used to guide our
process there.


On 14/5/24 14:59, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
>
> I would recommend installing kolla-ansible from Git instead of using
> PyPI releases. For a release like Victoria which is EOL, you are missing
> all the bug fixes merged between victoria-em (last PyPI release 11.4.0)
> and victoria-eol.
>
> Best wishes,
> Pierre Riteau (priteau)
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 05:21, Gregory Orange
> <gregory.orange@pawsey.org.au <mailto:gregory.orange@pawsey.org.au>> wrote:
>
>     To upgrade, we do this:
>
>     * upgrade kolla-ansible on the deployment host (pip install
>     "kolla-ansible==11.*")
>     * get the new version's copy of etc_examples/globals.yml
>     * apply settings from our own globals.yml to it
>     * generate and merge passwords
>     * take a backup of the databases with mysqldump for convenience
>     * kolla-ansible -i /etc/ansible/hosts upgrade --limit control
>
>     We also have a couple of postdeploy scripts we run to ensure our logos
>     are installed and other minor things.
>
>     We're a little behind the times though - I've just done that today
>     ussuri to victoria. Now continuing with '... upgrade --limit
>     compute-r1'
>     etc to do compute nodes one rack at a time for safety. I wonder how
>     much
>     has changed between victoria and now, and I intend to experience it
>     over
>     the next few months!
>
>     HTH,
>     Greg.
>
>     On 13/5/24 22:22, Nguyễn Hữu Khôi wrote:
>      > Hello.
>      >
>      > I read this doc about upgrading openstack
>      >
>      >
>     https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/user/operating-kolla.html <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/user/operating-kolla.html> <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/user/operating-kolla.html <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/user/operating-kolla.html>>
>      >
>      > But I would like to know if
>      >
>      > We install a new kolla-ansible(version to upgrade) on the new
>     deployment
>      > host, apply changes with password.yml, global.yml and multinode
>     and keep
>      > old /etc/kolla/config. Finally, we use kolla-ansible deploy
>     instead of
>      > kolla-ansible upgrade.
>      >
>      > Are these steps ok? Pls correct me if I am wrong.
>      >
>      > Thank you. Regards
>      >
>      > Nguyen Huu Khoi
>
>     --
>     Gregory Orange
>
>     System Administrator, Scientific Platforms Team
>     Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, CSIRO
>

--
Gregory Orange

System Administrator, Scientific Platforms Team
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, CSIRO