Chapter 1. Introduction

This release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform is based on the OpenStack "Rocky" release. It includes additional features, known issues, and resolved issues specific to Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Only changes specific to Red Hat OpenStack Platform are included in this document. The release notes for the OpenStack "Rocky" release itself are available at the following location: https://releases.openstack.org/rocky/index.html.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform uses components from other Red Hat products. See the following link(s) for specific information pertaining to the support of these components:

https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/openstack/platform/

To evaluate Red Hat OpenStack Platform, sign up at:

http://www.redhat.com/openstack/.

This version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform runs on the most recent fully supported release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The Red Hat OpenStack Platform dashboard is a web-based interface that allows you to manage OpenStack resources and services. The dashboard for this release runs on the latest stable versions of the following web browsers:

For a list of deployment limits for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, see Deployment Limits for Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

For recommended practices on maintaining the size of the MariaDB databases in your Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment, see Database Size Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

For a list of the certified drivers and plug-ins in Red Hat OpenStack Platform, see Component, Plug-In, and Driver Support in Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

For a list of the certified guest operating systems in Red Hat OpenStack Platform, see Certified Guest Operating Systems in Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

For a list of the guest operating systems that can be installed on bare metal nodes in Red Hat OpenStack Platform through Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic), see Supported Operating Systems Deployable With Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic).

This release of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform is supported only with the libvirt driver (using KVM as the hypervisor on Compute nodes).

Ironic has been fully supported since the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo). Ironic allows you to provision bare-metal machines using common technologies (such as PXE boot and IPMI) to cover a wide range of hardware while supporting pluggable drivers to allow the addition of vendor-specific functionality. This release of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform runs with Ironic.

Red Hat does not provide support for other Compute virtualization drivers such as the deprecated VMware "direct-to-ESX" hypervisor or non-KVM libvirt hypervisors.

This section describes the repository settings required to deploy Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.

You can install Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 through the Content Delivery Network (CDN). To do so, configure subscription-manager to use the correct repositories.

Run the following command to enable a CDN repository:

#subscription-manager repos --enable=[reponame]

Run the following command to disable a CDN repository:

#subscription-manager repos --disable=[reponame]

Repositories to Disable

The following table outlines the repositories you must disable to ensure Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 functions correctly.

Available resources include: