2024.1 Series Release Notes

24.0.0-7

New Features

• Added new nova::compute::libvirt::secret_ceph resource definition that can be used to create a libvirt secret of type ceph.

• Added new manage_libvirt_secret parameter defaulting to true in the nova::compute::rbd class.

Bug Fixes

• The libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter package is no longer installed, because the package is no longer reuquired by nova.

24.0.0

New Features

• The nova::compute::libvirt::services now installs the OVMF package to allow UEFI boot of instances. The package installation can be disabled by setting the manage_ovmf parameter.

• The nova::cache class now supports options to allow memcached with SASL enabled.

• The nova::cache class now supports the following new options for Redis backend and Redis Sentinel backend.

  • redis_server

  • redis_username

  • redis_password

  • redis_sentinels

  • redis_socket_timeout

  • redis_sentinel_service_name

• Added new nova::compute::flat_injected boolean parameter to configure the configuration option in Nova with the same name.

• The new nova::consoleauth class has been added.

• The live_migration_tunnelled parameter of the nova::migration::libvirt class was deprecated, because the actual parameter in nova was deprecated in 23.0.0 release.

• The conductor_group parameter and the shard parameter have been added to the ironic::conductor class.

• The nova::compute::libvirt_guests class now supports the following parameters.

  • start_delay

  • parallel_shutdown

  • bypass_cache

  • sync_time

• The new nova::compute::libvirt::num_volume_scan_tries parameter has been added.

• The nova::migration::libvirt class now supports the following two new parameters.

  • cert_file

  • key_file

• The new nova::migration::libvirt::live_migration_bandwidth parameter has been added.

• Now the nova::compute::mdev_type defined resource type supports the new max_instances parameter.

• The new nova::cache::memcache_pool_flush_on_reconnect parameter has been added.

• The new nova::migration::libvirt::migration_inbound_addr parameter has been added.

• The new nova::reports class has been added.

• The new nova::compute::pci::report_in_placement parameter has been added.

• The following parameters have been added to the nova::migration::qemu class.

  • migration_address

  • migration_host

• The new nova::rabbit_transient_quorum_queue parameter has been added.

• The nova::api::use_forwarded_for parameter has been removed.

• The new nova::compute::reserved_host_cpus parameter has been added.

• The new manage_swtpm parameter has been added to the nova::compute::libvirt::services class. Set this parameter to true to install swtpm package.

Upgrade Notes

• The [libvirt] cpu_mode option is set to host-model by default when qemu virt type is used, which is consistent with the default selected by nova. Set the nova::compute::libvirt::cpu_mode parameter to use a different mode such as the previous default (none).

• Suopport for vmwareapi virt driver has been removed.

• The following resource types no longer attempts to load user credentials from the [keystone_authtoken] section in nova.conf.

  • nova_aggregate

  • nova_flavor

  • nova_service

• The nova::api::nova_metadata_wsgi_enabled parameter has no effect now. When nova API service is deployed using httpd and mod_wsgi, nova-api service is no longer started. Use httpd + mod_wsgi to run metadata api.

• The nova::upgrade_level_cert parameter has been removed.

Deprecation Notes

• The nova::compute::config_drive_format parameter has been deprecated, because the config_drive_format option in nova has been deprecated.

• The following parameters of the nova::api class have been deprecated and now have no effect.

  • enable_network_quota

  • allow_instance_snapshots

  • hide_server_address_states

Bug Fixes

• Now the nova::compute::ironic class installs the nova-compute-ironic package in Debian or Ubuntu.