Hi!

It's my pleasure to announce the general availability of OpenStack Victoria in Debian.

I've just finished uploading everything to Debian Unstable today, and the Buster backports are available the usual way, for example using extrepo (which is in the official Debian backports):

apt-get install extrepo extrepo enable openstack_victoria apt-get update ...

or directly setting-up the buster-victoria.debian.net repository the usual way.

New in this release ===================

As all projects are deprecating the policy.json files, all of the services are now using a /etc/<PROJECT>/policy.d/00_default_policy.yaml. The normal /etc/<PROJECT>/policy.json will be automatically deleted, as it can be a problem if it remains. Looking backward, a sensible rename to get the file away would have been nicer to Debian users, so this will be implemented soonish.

Implementation in openstack-cluster-installer =============================================

Victoria can already be installed by OCI. The only issue that remains to be fixed, is puppet-openstack setting-up a /etc/keystone/puppet.conf wrongly in the controllers. Once the file contains the correct things, deployment can go on.

Also, it looks like LVM volume nodes still need some fixes.

Apart from these early glitches, everything seems working smoothly so far, and of course, these will be addressed soon.

I'll be testing upgrades using the usual oci-cluster-upgrade-openstack-release script.

Testing Victoria over Bullseye and Python 3.9 =============================================

The day OpenStack was released, Python 3.9 was uploaded to Debian Unstable. I've already sent a few patches to address some problems, but I haven't yet fully deployed OpenStack on top of Bullseye. Since Victoria will be the release for Bullseye, I will spend time polishing all of this before the forthcoming freeze in February. Hopefully, I'll also be able to finish scripting for upgrading a cluster from Buster to Bullseye before the freeze, just like one was shipped in OCI for Stretch to Buster upgrades.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)