RHBA-2017:3067 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated packages that resolve various issues are now available for Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) for RHEL 7.

Description

Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building a private
or public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud running on commonly
available physical hardware.

This update addresses the following issue:

• This update contains a complete refactoring of the iSCSI connection mechanism, resulting in improved reliability. For optimal results, use with openstack-cinder >= 7.0.3-8 and iscsi-initiator-utils >= 6.2.0.874-2. (BZ#1418856, BZ#1426441, BZ#1426442)

Solution

Before applying this update, ensure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4.

The Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 Release Notes contain the following:

• An explanation of the way in which the provided components interact to

form a working cloud computing environment.

• Technology Previews, Recommended Practices, and Known Issues.
• The channels required for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, including which

channels need to be enabled and disabled.

The Release Notes are available at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-openstack-platform/8/paged/release-notes

This update is available through 'yum update' on systems registered through
Red Hat Subscription Manager. For more information about Red Hat
Subscription Manager, see:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/RHSM/index.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1418856 - multipath service fails to start on compute node
• BZ - 1426441 - Wait for device on mpath + iscsi cleanup
• BZ - 1426442 - os-brick does not cleanup failed iSCSi sessions it created
• BZ - 1472963 - Backport the '--remove' option for tempestconf
• BZ - 1485403 - Rbd chunks still written if glance image_size_cap is hit
• BZ - 1496194 - [RHOS-8] ovs-vswitchd takes 100% CPU time

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)