Newton Series Release Notes

14.2.0

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.

  • 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) overriden 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) overriden 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.

14.1.1

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.

14.0.0

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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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