16.10

Summary

The 16.10 OpenStack Charm release includes updates for the following charms:

  • aodh
  • barbican
  • ceilometer
  • ceilometer-agent
  • ceph
  • ceph-mon
  • ceph-osd
  • ceph-radosgw
  • cinder
  • cinder-backup
  • cinder-ceph
  • designate
  • designate-bind
  • glance
  • hacluster
  • heat
  • keystone
  • lxd
  • neutron-api
  • neutron-api-odl
  • neutron-openvswitch
  • neutron-gateway
  • nova-cloud-controller
  • nova-compute
  • odl-controller
  • openstack-dashboard
  • openvswitch-odl
  • percona-cluster
  • rabbitmq-server
  • swift-proxy
  • swift-storage

New Charm Features

Ubuntu 16.10 support

The OpenStack charms have been validated for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety). The Yakkety series charms are available in the charm-store via jujucharms.com. For example:

juju deploy --series yakkety cs:nova-compute

OpenStack Newton support on 16.04 and 16.10

The charms provide full support for OpenStack Newton. For further details and documentation on Openstack Newton, please check out https://releases.openstack.org/newton

To deploy OpenStack Newton on Ubuntu 16.04, use the ‘openstack-origin’ configuration option, for example:

cat > config.yaml << EOF
nova-cloud-controller:
  openstack-origin: cloud:xenial-newton
EOF

juju deploy --config config.yaml nova-cloud-controller

OpenStack Newton is part of the Ubuntu 16.10 release, so no additional configuration is required for deployment:

juju deploy --series yakkety cs:nova-cloud-controller

To upgrade an existing Mitaka based deployment on Ubuntu 16.04 to the Newton release, simple re-configure the charm with a new openstack-origin configuration:

juju config nova-cloud-controller openstack-origin=cloud:xenial-newton

Please ensure that ceph services are upgraded before services that consume ceph resources, such as cinder, glance and nova-compute.

Rewrite of neutron-api-odl and openvswitch-odl

The neutron-api-odl and openvswitch-odl charms have both been rewritten using the reactive framework and the OpenStack charm layers and interfaces.

Upgrading an existing deployment which uses previous versions of these charms is not supported.

Application version support

Charms will now display the version of the application they are deploying via Juju 2.0 status output.

Swift Proxy swauth

The swift-proxy charm now supports the swauth authentication module, supporting deployment in standalone configurations without the use of keystone. To enable this option:

juju config swift-proxy auth-type=swauth

An ‘add-user’ action is provided to setup end user credentials in swauth.

Serial Console Support

Support has been added for accessing instances via the optionally enabled serial console feature provided in Nova.

Serial console access is enabled using a new config flag in the nova-cloud-controller charm.

This feature is only supported in OpenStack Juno or later, and replaces the standard output to the nova console-log.

juju config nova-cloud-controller enable-serial-console=true

AppArmor Support

A selection of charms have been enabled with AppArmor profiles for the services that they manage. This includes:

  • nova-compute
  • ceph-osd
  • neutron-gateway

AppArmor profiles are disabled by default and can be enabled using the aa-profile-mode configuration option. Valid settings are ‘complain’, ‘enforce’ or ‘disable’:

juju config neutron-gateway aa-profile-mode=enforce

hacluster default transport

For this release of the OpenStack Charms, the hacluster charm will default to using unicast instead of multicast for corosync communication between units participating within a cluster. This configuration has proven more generally reliable than the previous default of multicast.

If you wish to continue to use the multicast configuration, ensure that you explicitly set the corosync_transport configuration prior to charm upgrade:

juju config hacluster corosync_transport=multicast

This will ensure that the previous default is maintained during the charm upgrade process.

Nova LXD block storage support

The Nova Compute LXD integration includes support for persistent block device usage via Cinder. The first release of this feature only supports the Cinder iSCSI/LVM reference implementation, and can only be used with the ext4 fileystem type, enabled using:

juju config lxd enable-ext4-userns=true

Use of ext4 within unprivileged containers is still relatively new in the Linux Kernel so is not enabled by default.

Barbican

The barbican charm is provided as the base for future HSM enablement for production grade storage of secrets in an OpenStack cloud. The charm for this release will only deploy barbican using the default key store implementation, and as a result does not support HA deployment. This charm should not currently be considered secure in any way and is not appropriate for production use in an OpenStack cloud.

Upgrading

Please ensure that the keystone charm is upgraded first.

To upgrade an existing deployment to the latest charm version simply use the ‘upgrade-charm’ command:

juju upgrade-charm cinder

Deprecation Notices

Known Issues

rabbitmq-server + Juju 2.0/MAAS 2.0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/rabbitmq-server/+bug/1584902

rabbitmq-server charm fails to deploy with Juju 2.0 and MAAS 2.0 due to changes in DNS hostname management in MAAS 2.0. To workaround this use version 5 of the xenial charm:

juju deploy cs:xenial/rabbitmq-server-5

A more complete backwards compatible solution to this bug is being worked on.

ceilometer and aodh + Juju 1.25/MAAS 1.9

https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/ceilometer/+bug/1632909

ceilometer and aodh charms fail to deploy with Juju 1.25 when deployed in LXD containers using the MAAS provider due to hostname resolution issues. Specifically, the API service will fail to startup, resulting in a blocked service status.

Adding an entry into /etc/hosts on each LXC unit that correctly maps the hostname of the unit to its IP address will workaround this issue.

Ubuntu 16.10 + Juju 1.25/MAAS 1.9

https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1632530

Juju 1.25 is unable to start LXC containers on physical servers when deploying on Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety).

Bugs Fixed

For the full list of bugs resolved for the 16.10 release please refer to https://launchpad.net/charms/+milestone/16.10