Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. About this Release
This release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform is based on the OpenStack "Train" 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 "Train" release itself are available at the following location: https://releases.openstack.org/train/index.html.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform uses components from other Red Hat products. For specific information pertaining to the support of these components, see: https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/openstack/platform/.
To evaluate Red Hat OpenStack Platform, sign up at: http://www.redhat.com/openstack/.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Add-On is available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform use cases. For more details about the add-on, see: http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux-add-ons/high-availability/. For details about the package versions to use in combination with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, see: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/509783.
1.2. Requirements
This version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.1.
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 supports the latest stable versions of the following web browsers:
- Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Firefox ESR
Internet Explorer 11 and later (with Compatibility Mode disabled)
NoteYou can use Internet Explorer 11 to display the dashboard but expect a degradation of some functionalities because the browser is no longer maintained.
1.3. Deployment Limits
For a list of deployment limits for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, see Deployment Limits for Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
1.4. Database Size Management
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.
1.5. Certified Drivers and Plug-ins
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.
1.6. Certified Guest Operating Systems
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.
1.7. Product Certification Catalog
For a list of the Red Hat Official Product Certification Catalog, see Product Certification Catalog.
1.8. Bare Metal Provisioning Operating Systems
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).
1.9. Hypervisor Support
This release of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform is supported only with the libvirt driver (using KVM as the hypervisor on Compute nodes).
This release of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform runs with Bare Metal Provisioning.
Bare Metal Provisioning has been fully supported since the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo). Bare Metal Provisioning allows you to provision bare-metal machines using common technologies (such as PXE and IPMI) to cover a wide range of hardware while supporting pluggable drivers to allow the addition of vendor-specific functionality.
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.
1.10. Content Delivery Network (CDN) Repositories
This section describes the repositories required to deploy Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0.
You can install Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 through the Content Delivery Network (CDN) using subscription-manager. For more information, see Preparing the undercloud.
Some packages in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform software repositories conflict with packages provided by the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) software repositories. The use of Red Hat OpenStack Platform on systems with the EPEL software repositories enabled is unsupported.
1.10.1. Undercloud repositories
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1. Before enabling repositories, lock the director to a version with the subscription-manager release command:
$ sudo subscription-manager release --set=8.1
Enable the following repositories for the installation and configuration of the undercloud.
Core repositories
The following table lists core repositories for installing the undercloud.
| Name | Repository | Description of requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) Extended Update Support (EUS) |
| Base operating system repository for x86_64 systems. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) Extended Update Support (EUS) |
| Contains Red Hat OpenStack Platform dependencies. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - High Availability (RPMs) Extended Update Support (EUS) |
| High availability tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used for Controller node high availability. |
| Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| Ansible Engine for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used to provide the latest version of Ansible. |
| Red Hat Satellite Tools for RHEL 8 Server RPMs x86_64 |
| Tools for managing hosts with Red Hat Satellite 6. |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 for RHEL 8 (RPMs) |
| Core Red Hat OpenStack Platform repository, which contains packages for Red Hat OpenStack Platform director. |
| Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 (RPMS) |
| Provides Open vSwitch (OVS) packages for OpenStack Platform. |
IBM POWER repositories
The following table contains a list of repositories for Red Hat Openstack Platform on POWER PC architecture. Use these repositories in place of equivalents in the Core repositories.
| Name | Repository | Description of requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM Power, little endian - BaseOS (RPMs) |
| Base operating system repository for ppc64le systems. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for IBM Power, little endian - AppStream (RPMs) |
| Contains Red Hat OpenStack Platform dependencies. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for IBM Power, little endian - High Availability (RPMs) |
| High availability tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used for Controller node high availability. |
| Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 IBM Power, little endian (RPMs) |
| Ansible Engine for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Provides the latest version of Ansible. |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 for RHEL 8 (RPMs) |
| Core Red Hat OpenStack Platform repository for ppc64le systems. |
1.10.2. Overcloud repositories
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1. After overcloud deployment, lock each host to a specific version with the subscription-manager release command:
$ sudo subscription-manager release --set=8.1
You must enable the following repositories to install and configure the overcloud.
Core repositories
The following table lists core repositories for installing the overcloud.
| Name | Repository | Description of requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) Extended Update Support (EUS) |
| Base operating system repository for x86_64 systems. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) Extended Update Support (EUS) |
| Contains Red Hat OpenStack Platform dependencies. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - High Availability (RPMs) Extended Update Support (EUS) |
| High availability tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used for Controller node high availability. |
| Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| Ansible Engine for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used to provide the latest version of Ansible. |
| Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| Provides virtualization packages for OpenStack Platform. |
| Red Hat Satellite Tools for RHEL 8 Server RPMs x86_64 |
| Tools for managing hosts with Red Hat Satellite 6. |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 for RHEL 8 (RPMs) |
| Core Red Hat OpenStack Platform repository. |
| Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 (RPMS) |
| Provides Open vSwitch (OVS) packages for OpenStack Platform. |
Ceph repositories
The following table lists Ceph Storage related repositories for the overcloud.
| Name | Repository | Description of Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) |
| Base operating system repository for x86_64 systems. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) |
| Contains Red Hat OpenStack Platform dependencies. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - High Availability (RPMs) |
| High availability tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. |
| Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| Ansible Engine for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used to provide the latest version of Ansible. |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 Director Deployment Tools for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| Packages to help director configure Ceph Storage nodes. |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage OSD 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| (For Ceph Storage Nodes) Repository for Ceph Storage Object Storage daemon. Installed on Ceph Storage nodes. |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage MON 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| (For Ceph Storage Nodes) Repository for Ceph Storage Monitor daemon. Installed on Controller nodes in OpenStack environments using Ceph Storage nodes. |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage Tools 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) |
| Provides tools for nodes to communicate with the Ceph Storage cluster. Enable this repository for all nodes when you deploy an overcloud with a Ceph Storage cluster or when you integrate your overcloud with an existing Ceph Storage cluster. |
Real Time repositories
The following table lists repositories for Real Time Compute (RTC) functionality.
| Name | Repository | Description of requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - Real Time (RPMs) |
|
Repository for Real Time KVM (RT-KVM). Contains packages to enable the real time kernel. Enable this repository for all Compute nodes targeted for RT-KVM. NOTE: You need a separate subscription to a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - Real Time for NFV (RPMs) |
|
Repository for Real Time KVM (RT-KVM) for NFV. Contains packages to enable the real time kernel. Enable this repository for all NFV Compute nodes targeted for RT-KVM. NOTE: You need a separate subscription to a |
IBM POWER repositories
The following table lists repositories for Openstack Platform on POWER PC architecture. Use these repositories in place of equivalents in the Core repositories.
| Name | Repository | Description of requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM Power, little endian - BaseOS (RPMs) |
| Base operating system repository for ppc64le systems. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for IBM Power, little endian - AppStream (RPMs) |
| Contains Red Hat OpenStack Platform dependencies. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for IBM Power, little endian - High Availability (RPMs) |
| High availability tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used for Controller node high availability. |
| Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 IBM Power, little endian (RPMs) |
| Ansible Engine for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Used to provide the latest version of Ansible. |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.0 for RHEL 8 (RPMs) |
| Core Red Hat OpenStack Platform repository for ppc64le systems. |
1.11. Product Support
Available resources include:
- Customer Portal
The Red Hat Customer Portal offers a wide range of resources to help guide you through planning, deploying, and maintaining your Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment. Facilities available via the Customer Portal include:
- Product documentation
- Knowledge base articles and solutions
- Technical briefs
- Support case management
Access the Customer Portal at https://access.redhat.com/.
- Mailing Lists
Red Hat provides these public mailing lists that are relevant to Red Hat OpenStack Platform users:
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The
rhsa-announcemailing list provides notification of the release of security fixes for all Red Hat products, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
Subscribe at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce.
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