2025.1 Series Release Notes

18.3.0

Upgrade Notes

  • The default bootstrap user has been changed to cloud-user if os_distribution is set to centos. Set *_bootstrap_user variables to centos to retain existing behaviour.

  • Bumps Ceph package repository to Squid. This repository is only configured when using host libvirt.

  • Support for Linux Bridge mechanism driver has been removed. The driver was already removed from neutron.

  • Bumps the stackhpc.libvirt-host role to v1.14.0 which fixes compatibility with CentOS Stream 10 and Rocky Linux 10.

Bug Fixes

  • Bumps the MichaelRigart.interfaces role to v1.15.6 to fix compatibility with CentOS Stream 10 and Rocky Linux 10.

  • The default bootstrap user has been changed to cloud-user if os_distribution is set to centos, to match official cloud images.

  • Fixes issue when Bifrost hostvars file incorectly generated by Kayobe. LP#2045927

  • Fixes a regression in network connectivity check when using the no_ip attribute. LP#2125560

  • Fixes --check and --diff CLI arguments not being passed into Kolla Ansible commands. LP#2123834

18.2.0

New Features

  • The neutron-bgp-dragent container will now be built by default when kolla_enable_neutron_bgp_dragent is true.

Upgrade Notes

  • Deployments using Juniper Junos OS switches are required to update their configuration according to Juniper Junos OS documentation. This is due to the junos_config module dropping support for the provider parameter.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes the user prompt for deprovisioning multiple overcloud hosts at once. Previously, the prompt would only confirm deprovisioning for one host. It will now correctly apply to all hosts that have been targeted. LP#2115037

  • Fixes duplicate OS_CACERT lines in public-openrc.sh when both admin and public cacert variables are set. LP#2116318

  • Fixes configuration of backend TLS when network nodes are separate from controllers. LP#2117084

  • Fixes wrong name of gpgkey used for EPEL repositories when dnf_use_local_mirror is enabled. LP#2119921

  • Fixes CentOS Stream 9 seed and infra VMs not booting by switching to an EFI-compatible image. LP#2121588

  • Fixes an issue where incorrect network-data.json would be generated when interfaces without IP addresses are attached to infrastructure VMs. LP#2118403

  • Fixes failure to activate SR-IOV on GPU devices by bumping the stackhpc.linux collection to v1.3.4.

  • Fixes support for empty strings in the dev-tools package lists. This allows using expressions such as {{ 'foo' if os_distribution == 'rocky' else '' }}. LP#2115000

  • Fixes network connectivity check when a subset of hosts have the no_ip property set via group or host variables. LP#2120918

18.1.0

Upgrade Notes

  • Updates the default cloud image for CentOS Stream 9 deployments to use CentOS-Stream-GenericCloud-9-latest.x86_64.qcow2.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes incorrect handling of ansible_python_interpreter when using ansible-collection-kolla. Kayobe now aligns its behavior with kolla-ansible to ensure the correct interpreter is used. LP#2111594

  • Bumps the stackhpc.libvirt-vm role to v1.16.3 to fix seed and infra VM provisioning failures on Rocky Linux 9.6.

  • Fixes an infinite loop when deploying seed containers. LP#2114845

  • Fixes an issue building images with a regex when no image registry is set LP#2112646

18.0.0

New Features

  • Adds the kolla feature flag: kolla_enable_ironic_inspector. This defaults to true if you have enabled Ironic as Kayobe makes extensive use of introspection rules. Please note that whilst ironic inspector is deprecated, some features, such as introspection rules are not currently implemented in the replacement implementation built-in to Ironic. See Ironic documentation for more details.

  • Adds support for the Podman container engine as an alternative to Docker. See Kayobe docs for futher information.

  • Adds variables to configure authentication parameters in the image-download role, which is used to download IPA images. The new variables are image_download_url_username, image_download_url_password, image_download_force_basic_auth and image_download_unredirected_headers. See documentation of the get_url and uri Ansible modules for more details on how to use these variables.

  • Deploying and destroying infrastructure VMs is now significantly faster as only the required variables are passed to the relevant tasks as opposed to the entire collection of hostvars for each VM.

  • Adds dynamic-login to the default list of DIB elements included in Ironic Python Agent (IPA) images. This element can dynamically configure credentials at boot time, which is especially useful for troubleshooting.

  • Supports forcing time synchronisation after configuring chrony if ntp_force_sync is changed to True.

  • Using --list-tasks flag is now supported in commands that use kolla-ansible such as kayobe overcloud service deploy --list-tasks. This will now show the name of tasks and any tags associated with them.

  • Allows running without root privileges, provided that all Kayobe package dependencies are installed and all configured paths are writable for the current user, e.g. Python virtualenvs and output directories. To use this feature set kayobe_control_host_become to false in $KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/globals.yml.

Upgrade Notes

  • The docker group has been renamed to container-engine.

  • The kayobe-config configuration file docker.yml has been renamed to container-engine.yml.

  • Updates the mrlesmithjr.chrony role to v0.1.6.

  • Updates the maximum supported version of Ansible from 11 (ansible-core 2.17) to 12 (ansible-core 2.18). The minimum supported version is updated from 9.x to 10.x. This is true for both Kayobe and Kolla Ansible.

  • The openstacksdk_upper_constraints_file variable now defaults to the value of pip_upper_constraints_file. Set openstacksdk_upper_constraints_file to "https://releases.openstack.org/constraints/upper/{{ openstack_release }}" if you want to retain existing behaviour.

  • Stops automatically removing the inspection_store and opensm containers when they become disabled in Kayobe configuration. Manual container removal is now necessary, except in the case of a full service destroy.

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure the OS_SYSTEM_SCOPE environment variable is present in openstack_auth to prevent authentication issues occurring in baremetal-compute playbooks. LP#2111103

  • Fixes public-openrc.sh missing the OS_CACERT variable when absent from admin-openrc.sh. LP#2110549

  • Bumps the MichaelRigart.interfaces role to v1.15.3 to fix an issue where NetworkManager was not restarted before bouncing network interfaces. LP#2100792

  • Bumps the MichaelRigart.interfaces role to v1.15.4 to fix compatibility with CentOS Stream 9 due to changes in the iproute package.

  • Fixes ipa_kernel_options_default when ipa_collect_lldp is set to false. LP#2110505

  • Fixes incomplete removal of netplan packages which was preventing generated network configuration from getting applied with host configure commands. LP#2103794

  • Fixes a bug where non-overcloud hosts would show up in the confirmation prompt for kayobe overcloud deprovision LP#2091703

  • Bumps MichaelRigart.interfaces to fix an issue where kayobe overcloud host configure would fail to template during the networking tasks on Rocky hosts, with the error Could not load "ipaddr". LP#2107335

  • Fixes an issue where slave interfaces would not be brought back up when bouncing the master interface. LP#2072340.

  • Fixes an issue on boot where vgpu devices would fail to start due to a race condition in the startup logic. See LP#2102153 for more details.

  • Updates overcloud-deprovision.yml to use ansible.builtin.pause when prompting to confirm deprovisioning. This is the recommended workaround to Ansible issue 84515.

  • Pin requirements for IPA image build to ensure that the ironic-lib version matches ironic-python-agent. LP#2089263

  • Adds a name field to elements of apt_repositories, which specifies the name of the repository file (without the .sources suffix). The default value of this field is kayobe and it may be omitted. The user can override the default by providing a different name, such as ubuntu, and new repository data. This way, the default file, /etc/apt/source.list.d/ubuntu.sources, will be overwritten by the provided repository configuration. LP#2107280