[all]OpenStack + CentOS

Sean Mooney smooney at redhat.com
Thu Dec 10 00:08:05 UTC 2020


On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 19:43 +0000, Sean Mooney wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 16:55 +0000, Sean Mooney wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 09:19 -0700, Alex Schultz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:58 AM <DHilsbos at performair.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > All;
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > As you may or may not know; yesterday morning RedHat announced the end of
> > > > CentOS as a rebuild distribution[1].  "CentOS" will be retired in favor of
> > > > the recently announced "CentOS Stream."
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Can OpenStack be installed on CentOS Stream?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Since CentOS Stream is currently at 8, the question really is: Can
> > > > OpenStack Victoria be installed on CentOS Stream 8?  How about Ussuri?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > From a TripleO perspective we have tested it in CI and it has worked fairly
> > > consistently against master[0].
> > > 
> > 
> > i have been using centos-stream for my sriov thest host with devstack for most of the last
> > year. i have not hit any issues with it that were specific to centos stream.
> > so anicdotally yes it has worked fine form me when installing form source.
> 
> actully to that end i tried deploying to day and it looks like the output of
> lsb_release -i -s change form CentOS to CentOSStream at some point over the last few months
> 
> [centos at sriov-1 devstack]$ lsb_release -i -s
> CentOSStream
> so https://github.com/openstack/devstack/blame/97f3100c4f6cc8ae4f7059b5099654ef8b13b0d4/functions-common#L455
> now fails
> its a small change butthere could be other cases.

This is the fix for those that are interested https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/devstack/+/766366
i have tested that locally in a 2 node devstack deployment and did not need to make any other changes.

=========================
DevStack Component Timing
 (times are in seconds)  
=========================
run_process           32
test_with_retry        5
osc                  312
wait_for_service      20
yum_install           30
git_timed             40
dbsync                25
pip_install          150
-------------------------
Unaccounted time     497
=========================
Total runtime        1111  

This is your host IP address: 192.168.3.198
This is your host IPv6 address: **************************
Horizon is now available at http://192.168.3.198/dashboard
Keystone is serving at http://192.168.3.198/identity/
The default users are: admin and demo
The password: password

Services are running under systemd unit files.
For more information see: 
https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/systemd.html

DevStack Version: wallaby
Change: 97f3100c4f6cc8ae4f7059b5099654ef8b13b0d4 Merge "zuul: Remove nova-live-migration from check queue" 2020-12-06 21:44:11 +0000
OS Version: CentOSStream 8 n/a

also 18 mins for an 11 year old server with 2  xeon E5520 and sata3 ssds connected over sata 2...
compute nodes stilll takes about 7 mins about half of which is pip

> > 
> > installing form packages might be a different story.
> > bu the ooo responce is promising in that regard.
> > 
> > >  We will be working to align on Stream in
> > > the current release so if you are using RDO + Stream it should work. If it
> > > doesn't, it's something we will be addressing. I cannot vouch for the cloud
> > > sig version of OpenStack that comes straight from CentOS but that should
> > > also work and will likely get any fixes in the near future if required.
> > > CentOS 8 support has been available since Ussuri and we've backported
> > > support for Train to ensure that folks can upgrade from CentOS 7 to 8 using
> > > Train.  CentOS 8 Stream isn't that much different than CentOS 8 classic
> > > except it'll likely get newer versions of packaging first but those
> > > packages should be backwards compatible.
> > > 
> > > [0]
> > > https://review.rdoproject.org/zuul/builds?job_name=periodic-tripleo-ci-centos-8-standalone-centos8stream-master
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA
> > > > 
> > > > Director - Information Technology
> > > > 
> > > > Perform Air International Inc.
> > > > 
> > > > DHilsbos at PerformAir.com
> > > > 
> > > > www.PerformAir.com
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > [1: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/]
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA
> > > > 
> > > > Director – Information Technology
> > > > 
> > > > [image: Perform Air International, Inc.]
> > > > 
> > > > DHilsbos at PerformAir.com
> > > > 
> > > > 300 S. Hamilton Pl.
> > > > 
> > > > Gilbert, AZ 85233
> > > > 
> > > > Phone: (480) 610-3500
> > > > 
> > > > Fax: (480) 610-3501
> > > > 
> > > > www.PerformAir.com <http://www.performair.com/>
> > > > 
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