[Archived] Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18 Development Preview 2 Release Notes

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This document includes information about getting started, prerequisites, and limitations of the Development Preview 2 release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.

IMPORTANT: The Development Preview 2 release is no longer available for deployment and is replaced by the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18 Development Preview 3 release. This article has been update to include a PDF attachment of the archived deployment guide for the Development Preview 2 release.

IMPORTANT: This release replaces the previous Development Preview 1 release. If you need access to the archived Development Preview 1 release notes and deployment guide, use this link: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18 Development Preview 1 Release Notes

Developer Preview

This is a Developer Preview release. A Developer Preview release contains a preview of the functional set of features that will be included in the next version release of the software. Developer Preview versions are published before all features have been implemented and tested, therefore some features may be absent, incomplete, or not work as expected. Red Hat encourages customers to use the Developer Preview release to provide feedback.

Developer Preview builds have the following constraints and limitations:

  • Production use is not permitted.
  • Installation and use is not eligible for Red Hat production support.
  • Upgrades to, from, or between Developer Preview versions are not supported.

For more information about Developer Preview support scope, see Developer Preview Support Scope - Red Hat Customer Portal.

NOTE: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18 will be renamed to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. However, it might be still referred to as Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18 in related customer portal documents.

What's new in this release

The following features, enhancements, and functionality changes are available in this release:

  • The OpenStack Compute (nova) service now supports the Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic) driver.
  • The openstack-must-gather tool is available. The tool collects control plane logs that you can use to retrieve information about the deployed services.
  • The custom resource definition (CRD) examples that you use to create the data plane have been updated to be compatible with the Developer Preview 2 release. The CRD examples from Developer Preview 1 are no longer supported.
  • The OpenStack Image service (Glance) can now be configured with an OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) back end.
  • You can now configure an external Red Hat Ceph Object Gateway (RGW) to act as an Object Storage service.

Known issues

  • Bare Metal as a service (BMaaS) is not supported in this release, which causes the OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) Operator initialization to fail.

Getting started

To deploy the Developer Preview release, you must contact the Red Hat sales or account team to request the necessary subscriptions.

You install the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) control plane on an existing operational Red Hat Openshift Container Platform (RHOCP) cluster. You perform the control plane installation tasks and all data plane creation tasks on a workstation that has access to the RHOCP cluster.

Preparing, installing, and configuring RHOSP on RHOCP includes the following stages:

  • Planning your Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment
  • Installing and preparing the Operators
  • Preparing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
  • Creating the control plane
  • Creating the data plane
  • Accessing the data plane
  • Configuring a storage solution for the environment:
    • Configuring Red Hat Ceph Storage as the back end for Red Hat OpenStack Platform storage
    • Configuring a Hyperconverged Infrastructure environment
    • Configuring alternative storage solutions

Providing feedback

To provide feedback on the Developer Preview release, create an issue in the Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift Jira project, or contact the Red Hat sales or account team that provided you with the necessary subscriptions.

For more information about Developer Preview support scope, see Developer Preview Support Scope - Red Hat Customer Portal.

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