Kolla

Project overview and update

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Surya Singh | spsurya | Kolla Core

LINE Corporation

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Jeffrey Zhang | Jeffrey4l | Kolla Core

99Cloud

6.11.2019

What does Kolla do?

Kolla’s mission is to provide production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds.

Project background

• Founded during the Kilo release of OpenStack
• Joined the big tent in Liberty cycle
• Diverse contributor & user base
• 160+ contributors during Train cycle (more than Stein)
• User Survey results (English responses only)
• 125 Kolla Ansible deployments
• 25 deployments with custom tooling (Puppet, Nomad, etc.)

Deliverables

• openstack/kolla
• Docker container images for OpenStack services
• Used by TripleO and Kolla Ansible
• Supported by OpenStack-Helm�
• openstack/kolla-ansible
• Ansible-based tool to deploy Kolla images�
• openstack/kolla-cli
• Command Line Interface (CLI) and Python API to Kolla Ansible

Deliverables (2)

• openstack/kayobe
• Deliverable added to Kolla project during Train cycle
• Deployment of containerised OpenStack to bare metal
• Uses Kolla, Kolla Ansible & Bifrost

Kolla

New features & enhancements in Train

• Make the use of dumb-init optional
• Improve the skipped images feature, with filtering on distro, type & architecture
• Fluentd upgraded
• Ansible package in kolla-toolbox image upgraded to 2.8

New images in Train

• Qinling
• Function as a Service for OpenStack
• Masakari
• Instance High Availability Service
• HACluster
• High Availability services: Pacemaker, Corosync & PCS
• For Masakari

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Housekeeping

• Added a support matrix
• https://docs.openstack.org/kolla/latest/support_matrix.html
• Removed support for OracleLinux
• Removed crane, neutron-lbaas, nova-consoleauth, tripleo-ui & xtrabackup images
• Deprecated almanach, dind, dragonflow, & all Kubernetes images

Possible features & enhancements for Ussuri

• Support for CentOS 8 images
• Python 3 for all CentOS images
• Container health checks
• Using Docker health check feature�

Kolla Ansible

New features & enhancements in Train

• Secure internal API network and libvirt via TLS
• Deployment of multiple Nova cells (experimental)
• IPv6 control plane
• Qinling deployment
• Function as a Service
• Masakari deployment
• Instance High Availability Service

New features & enhancements in Train

• kolla-ansible deploy-containers
• Only deploys new images, skips bootstrapping & configuration
• Cloudkitty InfluxDB storage backend
• Cinder & Designate coordination backend configuration
• Swift recon & S3 API configuration

Housekeeping

• OracleLinux support is removed
• Ceph deployment is deprecated
• Transitioning to external Ceph support only
• Ceph Ansible migration path will be provided before removal
• Removed support for nova-consoleauth & neutron-lbaas

Possible features & enhancements for Ussuri

• Nova Cells v2
• Shared cell controllers
• Multiple RabbitMQ & MariaDB clusters
• More TLS
• HAProxy <-> Backend TLS
• RabbitMQ
• MariaDB
• Upgrade checkers

Kayobe

New features & enhancements in Train

• CentOS 8 hosts
• Python 3
• Multiple environments in one kayobe configuration repository
• Improved multi-environment and multi-region configuration
• Nova cells v2
• Make use of Kolla Ansible’s support for cells

Help!

We Need Your Help!

• Kolla is a real community project�
• Maintained by operators�
• Review bandwidth of core team limited - no one is full time�
• Lots of less frequent contributors�
• Has enough momentum to survive�
• More help needed to thrive

How to get Involved

• Consider watching for new patches in Gerrit�
• Help to review and/or test features and release candidates�
• Fix bugs - https://launchpad.net/kolla and https://launchpad.net/kolla-ansible�
• Join #openstack-kolla IRC channel�
• Attend weekly IRC meetings - 1500UTC on Wednesdays in #openstack-meeting-4�
• Attend the virtual PTG - date & time TBC

THANKS.

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