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== General Charm Updates == ## page was copied from ServerTeam/OpenStackCharms/ReleaseNotes1501
<<TableOfContents>>
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=== Icehouse support for 12.04 and 14.04 === == Summary ==
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All OpenStack charms now support deployment of OpenStack 2014.1 (Icehouse) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; this support includes the following charms:
 
The 15.04 OpenStack Charm release includes updates for the following charms:

 * ceilometer
 * ceilometer-agent
 * ceph
 * ceph-radosgw
 * cinder
 * cinder-ceph
 * glance
 * hacluster
 * heat
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 * neutron-api
 * neutron-openvswitch
 * nova-cloud-controller
 * nova-compute
 * openstack-dashboard
 * quantum-gateway
 * rabbitmq-server
 * swift-proxy
 * swift-storage
 * percona-cluster

These release notes complement the [[ServerTeam/OpenStackCharms/ReleaseNotes1501|15.01]] charm release notes in terms of charm features delivered since the last Ubuntu release.

== New Charm Features ==

=== Neutron - Distributed Virtual Router ===

The neutron-api charm now has a enable-dvr option to turn on Distributed Virtual Routing. When this is enabled each Compute Node will provide North/South DNAT (floating IP traffic) as well as East/West L3 forwarding (traffic between VM in the same tenant), North/South SNAT still goes through the neutron gateway.

Prerequisites:
 * Compute having external connectivity
 * l2-population is enabled
 * Openstack relealse >= Juno
 * enable-l3ha is disabled

More details of DVR can be found [[https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/DVR|here]]

=== Neutron - Router High Availability ===

=== Percona Cluster - Improved HA failure detection ===

The percona-cluster charm now ensures that the access Virtual IP is always co-located with an active, up-to-date instance of Percona XtraDB Cluster.

=== Deployment from source ===

'''EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE'''

The following charms now have support for deploying OpenStack directly from git repositories:
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 * keystone
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 * neutron-api
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 * swift-proxy
 * swift-storage
 * ceilometer
 * ceilometer-agent
 * heat
 * neutron-openvswitch
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To deploy OpenStack Icehouse on Ubuntu 12.04, use the 'openstack-origin' configuration option, for example: This feature is enabled by using the new 'openstack-origin-git' configuration option; this can be used to configure a minimal or expanded list of repositories to collate and install - see the README in each charm for specific details.
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{{{
cat > config.yaml << EOF
nova-cloud-controller:
  openstack-origin: cloud:precise-icehouse
EOF
juju deploy --config config.yaml nova-cloud-controller
}}}
Further deploy from source enablement is expected during the 15.07 charm development cycle.
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OpenStack Icehouse is provided as the default OpenStack release on Ubuntu 14.04 so no additional configuration is required in 14.04 deployments. == Deprecation Notices ==
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=== Active/Active and SSL RabbitMQ === === quantum-gateway ===
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All OpenStack charms now feature support for use with the rabbitmq-server charm configured in native active/active HA mode. To deploy RabbitMQ in this mode: 15.04 is the last release of the 'quantum-gateway' charm; for 15.07 it will be renamed 'neutron-gateway'. Migration instructions will be provided for 15.07 release.
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{{{
juju deploy rabbitmq-server
juju add-unit -n 1 rabbitmq-server
}}}
=== MySQL HA with Ceph ===
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Charms should be related to the rabbitmq-server charm as before: The original HA implementation of OpenStack used the MySQL charm in-conjunction with Ceph to provide a traditional active/passive shared block device HA mysql option.
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{{{
juju add-relation cinder rabbitmq-server
}}}
Percona XtraDB Cluster, as provided by the percona-cluster charm, provides an active/active MySQL configuration with no requirement for a shared block device.
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The rabbitmq-server charm also now supports use of SSL connections, for example: Users of the original MySQL HA option should migrate to a Percona XtraDB Cluster deployment between now and the 15.10 charm release, where support for MySQL with Ceph will be removed.
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{{{
juju set rabbitmq-server ssl=only
}}}
=== hacluster - default transport ===
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This will force all RabbitMQ connections to operate over SSL. Options for the ssl config flag include: For the 15.04 charm release, the hacluster charm will continue to use multicast as its default transport option for cluster communications.
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 * 'only': configure RabbitMQ server over a SSL port only.
 * 'off': configure RabbitMQ server over a non-SSL port only.
 * 'both': configure RabbitMQ server with SSL and non-SSL ports.
Unicast is generally more universally usable across all Juju providers - we'll be switching the default for 15.07 including automatic migration and re-configuration of existing multicast clusters. Instructions will also be provided for users who wish to continue to use the multicast transport option.
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'''NOTE''': This feature is not yet compatible with RabbitMQ server in native Active/Active HA mode. === Deployments without using the neutron-api charm ===
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=== SSL MySQL === The nova-compute charm now has an option called manage-neutron-plugin-legacy-mode. The default value for this option is True but as of 15.07 this will switch to False which will disable the management of neutron services and config by the nova-compute charm. The neutron-api service should be deployed to run and manage the neutron-server service and if ovs is being used then the neutron-openvswitch subordinate should be deployed and attatched to the nova-compute service.
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TBC == Bugs Fixed ==
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=== PostgreSQL ===

Support for use of PostgreSQL as the database for OpenStack components has been added to the OpenStack charms. This feature can be used by deploying the postgresql charm and relating services to it - for example:

{{{
juju deploy postgresql
juju add-relation cinder postgresql:db
}}}

The nova-cloud-controller charm requires access to two databases (neutron and nova), so the procedure is slightly different:

{{{
juju add-relation nova-cloud-controller:pgsql-nova-db postgresql:db
juju add-relation nova-cloud-controller:pgsql-neutron-db postgresql:db
}}}

'''NOTE''': Its not possible to switch an existing MySQL deployment to PostgreSQL - the charms will error and fail-safe if you try todo this.

=== Upgrading 12.04 deployments to Icehouse ===

'''WARNING''': Upgrading an OpenStack deployment is always a non-trivial process. The OpenStack charms automate alot of the process, however always plan and test your upgrade prior to upgrading production OpenStack environments.

Existing Havana and Grizzly deployments of OpenStack on Ubuntu 12.04 can be upgraded to Icehouse by issuing:

{{{
juju upgrade-charm <charm-name>
juju set <charm-name> openstack-origin=cloud:precise-icehouse
}}}

for each OpenStack charm in your deployment. Services which cannot be upgraded directly from Grizzly->Icehouse will be stepped automatically through the Havana release first.

== New Charm Features ==

=== Neutron - Modular Layer 2 plugin ===

The nova-cloud-controller, nova-compute and quantum-gateway charms will deploy the Modular Layer 2 (ml2) plugin, using the Open vSwitch L2 driver and GRE tunnelling, by default for Icehouse.

Existing Havana deployments using the older Open vSwitch (ovs) plugin will be automatically migrated to the ml2 plugin on upgrade.

=== Neutron - Enabled Extensions ===

The following extensions/drivers have been enabled for Icehouse deployments:

 * Metering
 * Load Balancing as-a Service - using the default haproxy implementation.
 * Firewall as-a Service - using the default iptables implementation
 * VPN as-a Service - using OpenSwan IPSec VPN.

=== Swift - default middleware ===

The following middleware has been added to the default swift-proxy pipeline for OpenStack Icehouse:

 * gatekeeper
 * staticweb
 * bulk
 * slo - static large objects
 * dlo - dynamic large objects
 * tempurl
 * formpost
 * container-quotas
 * account-quotas
 * container_sync

In addition, container versioning has also been enabled in the swift-storage charm.

For more details on these features, please refer to the [[http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/middleware.html|upstream documentation]].
For the full list of bugs resolved for the 15.04 release please refer to https://launchpad.net/charms/+milestone/15.04

Summary

The 15.04 OpenStack Charm release includes updates for the following charms:

  • ceilometer
  • ceilometer-agent
  • ceph
  • ceph-radosgw
  • cinder
  • cinder-ceph
  • glance
  • hacluster
  • heat
  • keystone
  • neutron-api
  • neutron-openvswitch
  • nova-cloud-controller
  • nova-compute
  • openstack-dashboard
  • quantum-gateway
  • rabbitmq-server
  • swift-proxy
  • swift-storage
  • percona-cluster

These release notes complement the 15.01 charm release notes in terms of charm features delivered since the last Ubuntu release.

New Charm Features

Neutron - Distributed Virtual Router

The neutron-api charm now has a enable-dvr option to turn on Distributed Virtual Routing. When this is enabled each Compute Node will provide North/South DNAT (floating IP traffic) as well as East/West L3 forwarding (traffic between VM in the same tenant), North/South SNAT still goes through the neutron gateway.

Prerequisites:

  • Compute having external connectivity
  • l2-population is enabled
  • Openstack relealse >= Juno

  • enable-l3ha is disabled

More details of DVR can be found here

Neutron - Router High Availability

Percona Cluster - Improved HA failure detection

The percona-cluster charm now ensures that the access Virtual IP is always co-located with an active, up-to-date instance of Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Deployment from source

EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE

The following charms now have support for deploying OpenStack directly from git repositories:

  • cinder
  • keystone
  • glance
  • nova-cloud-controller
  • nova-compute
  • neutron-api
  • quantum-gateway
  • neutron-openvswitch

This feature is enabled by using the new 'openstack-origin-git' configuration option; this can be used to configure a minimal or expanded list of repositories to collate and install - see the README in each charm for specific details.

Further deploy from source enablement is expected during the 15.07 charm development cycle.

Deprecation Notices

quantum-gateway

15.04 is the last release of the 'quantum-gateway' charm; for 15.07 it will be renamed 'neutron-gateway'. Migration instructions will be provided for 15.07 release.

MySQL HA with Ceph

The original HA implementation of OpenStack used the MySQL charm in-conjunction with Ceph to provide a traditional active/passive shared block device HA mysql option.

Percona XtraDB Cluster, as provided by the percona-cluster charm, provides an active/active MySQL configuration with no requirement for a shared block device.

Users of the original MySQL HA option should migrate to a Percona XtraDB Cluster deployment between now and the 15.10 charm release, where support for MySQL with Ceph will be removed.

hacluster - default transport

For the 15.04 charm release, the hacluster charm will continue to use multicast as its default transport option for cluster communications.

Unicast is generally more universally usable across all Juju providers - we'll be switching the default for 15.07 including automatic migration and re-configuration of existing multicast clusters. Instructions will also be provided for users who wish to continue to use the multicast transport option.

Deployments without using the neutron-api charm

The nova-compute charm now has an option called manage-neutron-plugin-legacy-mode. The default value for this option is True but as of 15.07 this will switch to False which will disable the management of neutron services and config by the nova-compute charm. The neutron-api service should be deployed to run and manage the neutron-server service and if ovs is being used then the neutron-openvswitch subordinate should be deployed and attatched to the nova-compute service.

Bugs Fixed

For the full list of bugs resolved for the 15.04 release please refer to https://launchpad.net/charms/+milestone/15.04

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