Hi folks, In the long-term effort of simplification and convergence to Ansible, the replacement of Paunch has passed a big milestone where it has proven to be stable enough to be the default. A lot of testing has happened, including updates and upgrades; all positive so far. The role itself is documented here: https://docs.openstack.org/tripleo-ansible/latest/roles/role-tripleo-contain... It has functional testing (Molecule), testing things like container config updates, idempotency, and many more use cases. You can take a look: https://opendev.org/openstack/tripleo-ansible/src/branch/master/tripleo_ansi... The role itself is using custom filters; which are all unit tested. Some modules were created as well. More testing has to happen on these modules but they have proven to work and even improve the operator experience to cover more scenarios and improve the logging and debugging process. The role doesn't support Docker, and won't at this point; it doesn't fit with our roadmap. With that patch, any new deployment (not using Docker) will now use the new role and not Paunch anymore: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/700738/ Which means: standalone, undercloud, overcloud. If you already have a running deployment, you can either run a minor update which will update THT and roll your cloud; or you can also set EnablePaunch: False and the containers will be restarted with the new config. If for some reason, you need to disable it, here's how: - undercloud.conf: undercloud_enable_paunch = false - standalone/overcloud: EnablePaunch: False It is not supported to roll back to a Paunch deployment once your containers are managed by Ansible; if you try it, an error will raise and the deployment/update/upgrade will stop. If you find any problem, bug or have any feedback for improvement, please let me know and we'll make it better. During the following weeks, we'll watch for performances and see if it degraded or if it's better. Paunch's replacement shouldn't make it faster because Ansible has a lot of overhead; however we want to make sure that it doesn't cause issues at scale. Which is why we're going to observe that now and do more testing at scale now it's the default. I want to thank all the reviewers involved in that effort, and specially Sagi, Kevin and Alex for their great feedback. Thanks, -- Emilien Macchi