Current Series Release Notes

18.0.0.0b1-144

New Features

• You can set a private repository for epel, you must use repo_centos_epel_mirror for the repo URL and if you need to get the GPG key from intranet or a mirror use repo_centos_epel_key for gpg key location.

• Added variable repo_server_directory_root which by default points to /var/www/repo and used instead of repo_service_home_folder as Apache DirectoryRoot for the virtual host.

Upgrade Notes

• The use of the nginx package repository on RedHat derived operating systems is no longer required as there is a new enough version of the nginx package in the standard distro repos now. The variables repo_centos_nginx_mirror and repo_centos_nginx_key are removed from the repo_server role and no longer have any effect.

• The repo_server role was switched to using a standalone HTTPD role from the in-role HTTPD deployment.

• In case of using custom path for the repo server vhost, please ensure to use repo_server_directory_root variable instead of repo_service_home_folder.

• The repo server no longer uses pypiserver, so it has been removed. Along with this, the following variables have also been removed.

  • repo_pypiserver_port

  • repo_pypiserver_pip_packages

  • repo_pypiserver_package_path

  • repo_pypiserver_bin

  • repo_pypiserver_working_dir

  • repo_pypiserver_start_options

  • repo_pypiserver_init_overrides

• A web server for repo containers/hosts has been changed from Nginx to Apache. This was made to reduce amount of services we manage with roles and to better align approaches and development vectors.

Deprecation Notes

• Variables for the repo_server role related to Apache (HTTPD) configuration, like repo_apache_*, as well as some repo_pki_ and repo_ssl_* were deprecated and have no effect now on due to migration to a standalone httpd role. Please, reffer to the httpd role for more details on how to manage deprecated settings.

• The repo server’s reverse proxy for pypi has now been removed, leaving only the pypiserver to serve packages already on the repo server. The attempt to reverse proxy upstream pypi turned out to be very unstable with increased complexity for deployers using proxies or offline installs. With this, the variables repo_nginx_pypi_upstream and repo_nginx_proxy_cache_path have also been removed.

• The package cache on the repo server has been removed. If caching of packages is desired, it should be setup outside of OpenStack-Ansible and the variable lxc_container_cache_files (for LXC containers) or nspawn_container_cache_files_from_host (for nspawn containers) can be used to copy the appropriate host configuration from the host into the containers on creation. Alternatively, environment variables can be set to use the cache in the host /etc/environment file prior to container creation, or the deployment_environment_variables can have the right variables set to use it. The following variables have been removed.

  • repo_pkg_cache_enabled

  • repo_pkg_cache_port

  • repo_pkg_cache_bind

  • repo_pkg_cache_dirname

  • repo_pkg_cache_dir

  • repo_pkg_cache_owner

  • repo_pkg_cache_group

• The variable repo_requires_pip_packages is no longer required and has therefore been removed.