RDO Ussuri Released

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Ussuri for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Ussuri is the 21st release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world.
The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/cloud/x86_64/openstack-ussuri/.

The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and maintains a complete OpenStack component set for RHEL and CentOS Linux and is a member of the CentOS Cloud Infrastructure SIG. The Cloud Infrastructure SIG focuses on delivering a great user experience for CentOS Linux users looking to build and maintain their own on-premise, public or hybrid clouds.

All work on RDO and on the downstream release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, is 100% open source, with all code changes going upstream first.

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, RDO Ussuri provides packages for CentOS8 only. Please use the previous release, Train, for CentOS7 and python 2.7.

Interesting things in the Ussuri release include:

Within the Ironic project, a bare metal service that is capable of managing and provisioning physical machines in a security-aware and fault-tolerant manner, UEFI and device selection is now available for Software RAID.
The Kolla project, the containerised deployment of OpenStack used to provide production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds, streamlined the configuration of external Ceph integration, making it easy to go from Ceph-Ansible-deployed Ceph cluster to enabling it in OpenStack.

Other improvements include:

Support for IPv6 is available within the Kuryr project, the bridge between container framework networking models and OpenStack networking abstractions.
Other highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via https://releases.openstack.org/ussuri/highlights.html.
A new Neutron driver networking-omnipath has been included in RDO distribution which enables the Omni-Path switching fabric in OpenStack cloud.
OVN Neutron driver has been merged in main neutron repository from networking-ovn.

Contributors
During the Ussuri cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:

Amol Kahat 
Artom Lifshitz 
Bhagyashri Shewale 
Brian Haley 
Dan Pawlik 
Dmitry Tantsur 
Dougal Matthews 
Eyal 
Harald Jensås 
Kevin Carter 
Lance Albertson 
Martin Schuppert 
Mathieu Bultel 
Matthias Runge 
Miguel Garcia 
Riccardo Pittau 
Sagi Shnaidman 
Sandeep Yadav 
SurajP 
Toure Dunnon 

Welcome to all of you and Thank You So Much for participating!

But we wouldn’t want to overlook anyone. A super massive Thank You to all 54 contributors who participated in producing this release. This list includes commits to rdo-packages and rdo-infra repositories:

Adam Kimball 
Alan Bishop 
Alan Pevec 
Alex Schultz 
Alfredo Moralejo 
Amol Kahat 
Artom Lifshitz 
Arx Cruz 
Bhagyashri Shewale 
Brian Haley 
Cédric Jeanneret 
Chandan Kumar
Dan Pawlik
David Moreau Simard 
Dmitry Tantsur 
Dougal Matthews 
Emilien Macchi 
Eric Harney 
Eyal 
Fabien Boucher 
Gabriele Cerami 
Gael Chamoulaud 
Giulio Fidente 
Harald Jensås 
Jakub Libosvar 
Javier Peña 
Joel Capitao 
Jon Schlueter 
Kevin Carter 
Lance Albertson 
Lee Yarwood 
Marc Dequènes (Duck) 
Marios Andreou 
Martin Mágr 
Martin Schuppert 
Mathieu Bultel 
Matthias Runge 
Miguel Garcia 
Mike Turek 
Nicolas Hicher 
Rafael Folco 
Riccardo Pittau 
Ronelle Landy 
Sagi Shnaidman 
Sandeep Yadav 
Soniya Vyas

Sorin Sbarnea 
SurajP 
Toure Dunnon 
Tristan de Cacqueray 
Victoria Martinez de la Cruz 
Wes Hayutin 
Yatin Karel
Zoltan Caplovic

The Next Release Cycle
At the end of one release, focus shifts immediately to the next, Victoria, which has an estimated GA the week of 12-16 October 2020. The full schedule is available at https://releases.openstack.org/victoria/schedule.html.
Twice during each release cycle, RDO hosts official Test Days shortly after the first and third milestones; therefore, the upcoming test days are 25-26 June 2020 for Milestone One and 17-18 September 2020 for Milestone Three.

Get Started
There are three ways to get started with RDO.

To spin up a proof of concept cloud, quickly, and on limited hardware, try an All-In-One Packstack installation. You can run RDO on a single node to get a feel for how it works.
For a production deployment of RDO, use the TripleO Quickstart and you’ll be running a production cloud in short order.
Finally, for those that don’t have any hardware or physical resources, there’s the OpenStack Global Passport Program. This is a collaborative effort between OpenStack public cloud providers to let you experience the freedom, performance and interoperability of open source infrastructure. You can quickly and easily gain access to OpenStack infrastructure via trial programs from participating OpenStack public cloud providers around the world.
Get Help
The RDO Project participates in a Q&A service at https://ask.openstack.org. We also have our users@lists.rdoproject.org for RDO-specific users and operrators. For more developer-oriented content we recommend joining the dev@lists.rdoproject.org mailing list. Remember to post a brief introduction about yourself and your RDO story. The mailing lists archives are all available at https://mail.rdoproject.org. You can also find extensive documentation on RDOproject.org.

The #rdo channel on Freenode IRC is also an excellent place to find and give help.

We also welcome comments and requests on the CentOS devel mailing list and the CentOS and TripleO IRC channels (#centos, #centos-devel, and #tripleo on irc.freenode.net), however we have a more focused audience within the RDO venues.
Get Involved
To get involved in the OpenStack RPM packaging effort, check out the RDO contribute pages, peruse the CentOS Cloud SIG page, and inhale the RDO packaging documentation.
Join us in #rdo and #tripleo on the Freenode IRC network and follow us on Twitter @RDOCommunity. You can also find us on Facebook and YouTube.
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