Zed Series Release Notes

18.0.0.0b1-164

New Features

  • Support is added for the ‘reference_group’ provider_networks parameter when identifying which net_names and VLAN ranges can be accessed by specific hosts. This targets deployments which make use of external routed provider networks.

  • Added variable service_update_password that will control whether password should be updated, which defaults to False. This changes previous behaviour when service passwords were always updated in the keystone on role run. Please use this variable whenever you need to update a password for the service.

Known Issues

  • When using the connection plugin’s container_user option, ansible_remote_tmp should be set to a system writable path such as ‘/var/tmp/’.

Upgrade Notes

  • Note that ‘reference_group’ in provider_networks now impacts Neutron agent configuration. If net_names or VLAN ranges are defined alongside a ‘reference_group’, these will only be applied to hosts which exist in the ‘reference_group’. If ‘reference_group’ was not used previously then the behaviour will be unchanged. This only applies to ‘flat’ or ‘vlan’ network types.

  • The distribution package lookup and data output has been removed from the py_pkgs lookup so that the repo-build use of py_pkgs has reduced output and the lookup is purpose specific for python packages only.

Deprecation Notes

  • The get_gested filter has been removed, as it is not used by any roles/plays.

  • Removal of the netloc, netloc_no_port and netorigin filters. Please use the urlsplit filter instead. All usages of the deprecated filters in openstack repos have been updated.

  • The py_pkgs and packages_file Ansible lookups are no longer used in OSA and have been removed from the plugins repository.

Bug Fixes

  • Different race conditions in services are fixed when keystone password is forcefully reseted. Closes Bug: #2023370

Other Notes

  • The config_template action module has now been moved into its own git repository (openstack/ansible-config_template). This has been done to simplify the ability to use the plugin in other non OpenStack-Ansible projects.

18.0.0.0b1

New Features

  • A new option was added to the plugin for container_namespaces which is a user provided interface for passing in the namespaces used to attach to the container. If this option is undefined the default namespaces will be used for full container isolation.

17.0.0.0b3

Other Notes

  • The vars plugin override_folder.py has been removed. With the move to Ansible 2.4 [”https://review.openstack.org/#/c/522778”] this plugin is no longer required. The functionality this plugin provided has been replaced with the native Ansible inventory plugin.

16.0.0.0b3

New Features

  • The config_template template module now supports writing out valueless INI options without suffixing them with ‘=’ or ‘:’. This is done via the ‘ignore_none_type’ attribute. If ignore_none_type is set to true, these key/value entries will be ignored, if it’s set to false, then ConfigTemplateParser will write out only the option name without the ‘=’ or ‘:’ suffix. The default is true.

  • The get_nested filter has been added, allowing for simplified value lookups inside of nested dictionaries. ansible_local|get_nested(‘openstack_ansible.swift’), for example, will look 2 levels down and return the result.

Upgrade Notes

  • The neutron library has been removed from OpenStack-Ansible’s plugins. Upstream Ansible modules for managing OpenStack network resources should be used instead.

16.0.0.0b1

New Features

  • The default behaviour of ensure_endpoint in the keystone module has changed to update an existing endpoint, if one exists that matches the service name, type, region and interface. This ensures that no duplicate service entries can exist per region.

  • The deployer can now define an environment variable GROUP_VARS_PATH with the folders of its choice (separated by the colon sign) to define an user space group_vars folder. These vars will apply but be (currently) overridden by the OpenStack-Ansible default group vars, by the set facts, and by the user_* variables. If the deployer defines multiple paths, the variables found are merged, and precedence is increasing from left to right (the last defined in GROUP_VARS_PATH wins)

  • The deployer can now define an environment variable HOST_VARS_PATH with the folders of its choice (separated by the colon sign) to define an user space host_vars folder. These vars will apply but be (currently) overridden by the OpenStack-Ansible default host vars, by the set facts, and by the user_* variables. If the deployer defines multiple paths, the variables found are merged, and precedence is increasing from left to right (the last defined in HOST_VARS_PATH wins)

Deprecation Notes

  • The update state for the ensure_endpoint method of the keystone module is now deprecated, and will be removed in the Queens cycle. Setting state to present will achieve the same result.

15.0.0.0b3

New Features

  • The new provider network attribute sriov_host_interfaces is added to support SR-IOV network mappings inside Neutron. The provider_network adds new items network_sriov_mappings and network_sriov_mappings_list to the provider_networks dictionary. Multiple interfaces can be defined by comma separation.

15.0.0.0b1

New Features

  • Add get_networks command to the neutron library. This will return network information for all networks, and fail if the specified net_name network is not present. If no net_name is specified network information will for all networks will be returned without performing a check on an existing net_name network.

Upgrade Notes

  • The glance library has been removed from OpenStack-Ansible’s plugins. Upstream Ansible modules for managing OpenStack image resources should be used instead.

14.0.0.0rc1

New Features

  • The config_template action plugin now has a new option to toggle list extension for JSON or YAML formats. The new option is list_extend and is a boolean. The default is True which maintains the existing API.

14.0.0.0b3

New Features

  • An opportunistic Ansible execution strategy has been implemented. This allows the Ansible linear strategy to skip tasks with conditionals faster by never queuing the task when the conditional is evaluated to be false.

  • The Ansible SSH plugin has been modified to support running commands within containers without having to directly ssh into them. The change will detect presence of a container. If a container is found the physical host will be used as the SSH target and commands will be run directly. This will improve system reliability and speed while also opening up the possibility for SSH to be disabled from within the container itself.

14.0.0.0b2

New Features

  • The py_pkgs lookup plugin now has strict ordering for requirement files discovered. These files are used to add additional requirements to the python packages discovered. The order is defined by the constant, REQUIREMENTS_FILE_TYPES which contains the following entries, ‘test-requirements.txt’, ‘dev-requirements.txt’, ‘requirements.txt’, ‘global-requirements.txt’, ‘global-requirement-pins.txt’. The items in this list are arranged from least to most priority.

14.0.0.0b1

New Features

  • The ability to support login user domain and login project domain has been added to the keystone module.

    # Example usage
- keystone:
    command: ensure_user
    endpoint: "{{ keystone_admin_endpoint }}"
    login_user: admin
    login_password: admin
    login_project_name: admin
    login_user_domain_name: custom
    login_project_domain_name: custom
    user_name: demo
    password: demo
    project_name: demo
    domain_name: custom

Bug Fixes

  • The ability to support login user domain and login project domain has been added to the keystone module. This resolves https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ansible/+bug/1574000

    # Example usage
- keystone:
    command: ensure_user
    endpoint: "{{ keystone_admin_endpoint }}"
    login_user: admin
    login_password: admin
    login_project_name: admin
    login_user_domain_name: custom
    login_project_domain_name: custom
    user_name: demo
    password: demo
    project_name: demo
    domain_name: custom

13.0.0

New Features

  • The ability to support MultiStrOps has been added to the config_template action plugin. This change updates the parser to use the set() type to determine if values within a given key are to be rendered as MultiStrOps. If an override is used in an INI config file the set type is defined using the standard yaml construct of “?” as the item marker.

    # Example Override Entries
Section:
  typical_list_things:
    - 1
    - 2
  multistrops_things:
    ? a
    ? b

    # Example Rendered Config:
[Section]
typical_list_things = 1,2
multistrops_things = a
multistrops_things = b