February 2023 - Starlingx-discuss

[Starlingx-discuss] stx.8.0 Release Milestone declared
by Khalil, Ghada 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hello all, This email announces that the st8.7.0 Release milestone has been achieved as of February 22, 2023. StarlingX release 8.0 is officially delivered. The ISO/build artifacts are available on CENGN at: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/release/8.0.0/debian/mon… Release documentation is on starlingx.io at: https://docs.starlingx.io/r/stx.8.0/ Thank you to everyone in the Community - development, test and documentation - for all of your hard work in delivering this release. Congratulations everyone! Regards, Ghada On behalf of the StarlingX Release team

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[Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX Release 8.0 Regression Results
by Cooke, Rob 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hello everyone, Final regression on the StarlingX 8.0 release branch has been completed. All the regression tests have been executed and analyzed with no release gating issues identified. The details around the execution and test cases are tracked in our regression sheet at this location https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b5w2oLlGwipTlrNysWwl1JnM1dvyboIIQhp… Thanks, Rob

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[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Feb 22, 2023)
by Khalil, Ghada 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-status Minutes from the community call February 22, 2023 Standing topics - Build - Main Branch Debian Builds - Green; had successful builds this week - stx.8.0 RC Builds - Successful build as of Feb 11: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/8.0/debian/monolithic… - No builds have been required since Feb 11 - The above RC build is now considered the release build: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013858… - Do we need stx.8.0 weekly builds? - Agreed to start weekly builds shortly for consistency w/ stx.6.0 & stx.7.0 and to ensure the build jobs are maintained - stx.6.0 Weekly Builds - Green - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/6.0/ - stx.7.0 Weekly Builds - Green - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/7.0/ - stx.8.0 Weekly Builds - Will start shortly. Prime: ScottL - Sanity - Debian Main Branch Platform Sanity - Last sanity email sent on Feb 22: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013859… - Status: Green for both SX & DX - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity - Last sanity email sent on Feb 21: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013857… - Status: Yellow - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2007303 -- intermittent issue; passed on re-test - stx.8.0 Sanity - Platform Sanity - Sanity email sent on Feb 17: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013846… - Status: Green - stx-openstack Sanity - Sanity email sent on Feb 14: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013837… - Status: Green - Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention - stx.8.0 Release Notes Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/873563 - Need the release notes reviewed/cherrypicked today for the stx.8.0 release declaration - From previous meetings: Fixes to libvirt env: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/863735 - Review comments provided in Nov; still waiting for author (Scott Kamp) to respond/address review comments - Jan 18: Some activity in the review as of Jan 15 - Feb 1: Alternative fix proposed on Jan 18; waiting for ScottK's review - Feb 15: ScottK is going back to this - Reference Links: - Active Branch (open): https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+is:open+branch:+master - Active Branch (merged): https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+is:merged+branch:master Topics for this week - Release Status - Release Planning Meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-releases - stx.8.0 - Release Tracking Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cjhRQm717zOTo2ngs5SEs3elhJwSRxFAI-r… - Milestones: - Release: Feb 22 << On track - Status - Sanity & Regression testing - Prime: Rob Cooke / Status: Complete - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013837… - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013846… - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013847… - Final Build / Branch updates - Prime: Scott Little / Status: Complete - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013858… - Release Notes Merged / Cherry-picked - Prime: Juanita Balaraj / Status: In Progress - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/873563 - On track to complete today - Feb 22 - Release Milestone Email Sent - Prime: Ghada Khalil / Status: Not Started - Pending release notes. Scheduled to go out on Feb 22 - Release Press Release Sent - Prime: Ildiko / Status: - Scheduled to go out on Feb 23 - Blogs - Ildiko working on the release blog post - Other blog posts are planned for later; will start to track those as part of the bi-weekly release planning meetings - stx.9.0 - Release Tracking Spreadsheet created: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aTjYzUkExodfayt-rjTv466jE-DP8b_YjrT… - New features starting to be added - Call to community members/PLs to continue adding their feautre proposal - Would like to have the majority of features proposed by the March virtual PTG (March 28-29) ARs from Previous Meetings - None Open Requests for Help - Installing additional RPMs - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013845… - Already responded to on the mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013848… - Status: Closed - StarlingX Support on ARM - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013819… - Not currently supported on StarlingX, but should be more doable with the move to Debian and the yocto kernel - ARM Support would definitely require work to support, including build system support - A few years ago MarkA and Greg did some prototype work on orange-pie - MarkA responded to the thread: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013841… - No further responses to Mark's last email - Status: Watch List; will leave on the community list for a few more weeks - stx-openstack apply failed after enabling cpu_dedicated_setInbox - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013720.… - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013724.… - Seen w/ stx.7.0. Issue only happens when setting cpu dedicated CPUs on a running system. During the unlock, the openstack fails to re-apply. - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2002157 - Assigned to Thales; team has no bandwidth to look at this for the remaining of the month. Will reach out to the reporter to share this. - Status: No updates - Documenting Tested Hardware by the community - Brought Up by: Scott Kamp - The StarlingX documentation already has a limited list of certified hardware - A variety of hardware platform doesn't work with StarlingX. - This is due to the kernel options that are enabled, especially as it related to the rt kernel - Standard distributions like Ubuntu has everything enabled - One approach is to consider a mechanism to swap out the kernel - This is a big conversation. Requires TSC direction/guidance and likely significant effort/investment. - Conclusion: Put this as a topic on the PTG. Action: Ildiko - Status: Closed - Ildiko sent email to the community https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013849… - Topic added to the PTG by GregW - w/ Linda Wang & MarkA moderating - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013856…

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[Starlingx-discuss] OpenInfra Summit Forum Selection Committee Call for Volunteers
by Kendall Nelson 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hello Everyone! The Forum at the OpenInfra Summit Vancouver is coming up! We would love 1 volunteer from StarlingX for the Forum Selection Committee. Ideally, the volunteer would: - already be serving in some capacity in a governance role for your project - not be planning to submit to the Forum CFP or be willing to abstain from voting on your proposals For information on the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver: https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023/ For more information on the Forum, please see: https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023/forum/ Please reach out to me, knelson@open <http://goog_1840023357/>infra.dev, or reply on this thread if you're interested. Volunteers should respond on or before March 5th, 2023 @ 7:00 UTC. This role does not require you to travel to the OpenInfra Summit, but can get you a discounted ticket if you choose to volunteer and then attend (we would love to have you there!). Thanks! Kendall Nelson

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[Starlingx-discuss] Sanity Master Test LAYERED build ISO 20230219T070001Z
by Peng, Peng 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Sanity Test from 2023 February 21 (https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/monolithic…) Status: GREEN SX sanity Passed: 17 (100.0%) Failed: 0 (0.0%) Total Executed: 17 List of Test Cases: ------------------------------------------------------ PASS test_system_health_pre_session[pods] PASS test_system_health_pre_session[alarms] PASS test_system_health_pre_session[system_apps] PASS test_horizon_host_inventory_display PASS test_lock_unlock_host PASS test_pod_to_pod_connection PASS test_pod_to_service_connection PASS test_host_to_service_connection PASS test_push_docker_image_to_local_registry_active PASS test_upload_charts_via_helm_upload PASS test_host_operations_with_custom_kubectl_app PASS test_isolated_2p_2_big_pod_best_effort_HT_AIO PASS test_sriovdp_netdev_single_pod[1-1-lock/unlock] PASS test_sriovdp_netdev_connectivity_ipv4[1-1-calico-ipam] PASS test_sriovdp_mixed_add_vf_interface[1] PASS test_system_coredumps_and_crashes[core_dumps] PASS test_system_coredumps_and_crashes[crash_reports] DX sanity Passed: 23 (100.0%) Failed: 0 (0.0%) Total Executed: 23 List of Test Cases: ------------------------------------------------------ PASS test_system_health_pre_session[pods] PASS test_system_health_pre_session[alarms] PASS test_system_health_pre_session[system_apps] PASS test_horizon_host_inventory_display PASS test_lock_unlock_host PASS test_swact_controller_platform PASS test_pod_to_pod_connection PASS test_pod_to_service_connection PASS test_host_to_service_connection PASS test_push_docker_image_to_local_registry_active PASS test_push_docker_image_to_local_registry_standby PASS test_upload_charts_via_helm_upload PASS test_host_operations_with_custom_kubectl_app PASS test_force_reboot_host[active_controller-True] PASS test_force_reboot_host[active_controller-False] PASS test_force_reboot_host[standby_controller-False] PASS test_bmc_verify_bm_type_ipmi PASS test_sriovdp_netdev_single_pod[1-1-lock/unlock] PASS test_sriovdp_netdev_connectivity_ipv4[1-1-calico-ipam] PASS test_sriovdp_netdev_connectivity_ipv6[1-1-calico-ipam] PASS test_sriovdp_mixed_add_vf_interface[1] PASS test_system_coredumps_and_crashes[core_dumps] PASS test_system_coredumps_and_crashes[crash_reports] Regards, PV team

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[Starlingx-discuss] [release] StarlingX 8.0 release date
by Ildiko Vancsa 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Hi, I’m reaching out about the 8.0 release. I’ve been keeping an eye on the testing activities and the release notes, and it looks like that everything is getting very close to be able to release this week. I am working with the marketing team at the OpenInfra Foundation to coordinate release announcements and communications. In order to be able to publish the release announcement on Thursday this week, the latest, we need a little bit of prior heads up to be certain whether the release will be cut by then or not. @Ghada: Do you have information about whether we expect the release to be out on Wednesday (Feb 22) as forecasted, or there might be something that could delay it? Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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[Starlingx-discuss] Sanity - StarlingX + STX-Openstack MASTER Build ISO [20230219T070001Z] results - Feb-21
by Calixto de Paula, Gabriel 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Hi all, Here are the results for StarlingX + STX-Openstack sanity using the Feb-19 build: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/monolithic… and Helm Charts: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/monolithic… Overall Sanity Results: YELLOW AIO-DX Baremetal with VSWITCH_TYPE=ovs Sanity Status: YELLOW Automated Test Results Summary: ------------------------------------------------------ Passed: 14 (93.33%) Failed: 1 (6.67%) Total Executed: 15 List of Test Cases: ------------------------------------------------------ PASS 20230221 12:50:03 test_ssh_to_hosts PASS 20230221 12:51:41 test_lock_unlock_host PASS 20230221 13:15:44 test_openstack_services_healthy PASS 20230221 13:16:46 test_reapply_stx_openstack_no_change[controller-0] PASS 20230221 13:18:47 test_reapply_stx_openstack_no_change[controller-1] PASS 20230221 13:23:40 test_horizon_create_delete_instance PASS 20230221 13:30:00 test_swact_controllers PASS 20230221 13:39:54 test_ping_between_two_vms[tis-centos-guest-virtio-virtio] PASS 20230221 13:46:43 test_migrate_vm[tis-centos-guest-live-None] PASS 20230221 13:51:51 test_nova_actions[tis-centos-guest-dedicated-pause-unpause] PASS 20230221 13:56:24 test_nova_actions[tis-centos-guest-dedicated-suspend-resume] FAIL 20230221 14:00:58 test_evacuate_vms PASS 20230221 14:35:37 test_system_coredumps_and_crashes[core_dumps] PASS 20230221 14:36:02 test_system_coredumps_and_crashes[crash_reports] PASS 20230221 14:36:17 test_system_alarms ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The failed test is due to the issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2007303<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/*bug/20073…> Thanks, STX-Openstack Distro Team

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[Starlingx-discuss] Kernel and HW compatibility discussion at the vPTG
by Ildiko Vancsa 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to follow up on a topic that came up during the Community Call last week (Feb 15). The main challenge that the group on the call discussed was around the limited set of supported HW by the StarlingX platform. We touched on two angles: * How does someone know exactly what HW is supported by the platform? - Is the list in the documentation comprehensive? Can it be? * Is it possible to achieve better compatibility and support a wider range of HW options? - What are the main factors of the limited set of supported HW types? Possible solutions: * The community needs a wider pool of HW varieties to test on - Third-party testing? * The real-time kernel causes challenges, as it limits the enabled kernel-options by default - There are multiple ways forward + Enable more kernel options by default. Is that really possible/feasible? = i.e. Standard distributions like Ubuntu has everything enabled + Consider a mechanism to swap out the kernel —> This points back to earlier discussions about the modularity of the StarlingX platform The above questions and solution ideas all point towards a bigger conversation. The above directions each require time and focus from the community to achieve. In order get into the details of the problem as well as options and preferred solutions forward, we suggested to continue the conversation on the virtual PTG in march. What do you all think? Who in the community would be interested in moderating the conversation? Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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[Starlingx-discuss] Fwd: PTG March 2023 Teams List
by Kendall Nelson 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Hello Everyone! The March 2023 Project Teams List is official! *Projects + Teams* - OpenInfra Foundation Teams - Diversity and Inclusion WG - Edge Computing Group - Environmental Sustainability Working Group - Interop WG - StarlingX - OpenStack Teams - Service Teams - Barbican - Blazar - Cinder - CloudKitty - Designate - Glance - Horizon - Ironic - Keystone - Kolla - Kuryr - Magnum - Manila - Neutron - Nova - Octavia - OpenaStackSDK/CLI/Ansible-Collections - OpenStack-Ansible - OpenStackCharms - QA - Tacker - Other Teams - Scientific SIG - PublicCloud SIG OpenStack - Security SIG - OpenStack Technical Committee - RBAC - I18n SIG If your team was planning to meet and isn’t on this list, please contact ptg(a)openinfra.dev IMMEDIATELY. Soon I will be contacting moderators to sign your team up for time via the PTGBot[1] once I have it configured for the teams that are signed up to attend the event. Otherwise, please don't forget to register[2] — *its FREE!* As usual, feel free to let us know if you have any questions! Thanks! -Kendall (diablo_rojo) [1] PTGBot Docs: https://github.com/openstack/ptgbot#open-infrastructure-ptg-bot [2] PTG Registration: https://openinfra-ptg.eventbrite.com

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[Starlingx-discuss] Bi-Weekly StarlingX OS Distro & Multi-OS meeting: Feb 8, 2023
by Wang, Linda 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Feb 8, 2023 Attendees: Mike, Fabiano, Linda, Scott, Davelet, Mark 1. General Topics 0.1 Split package list betweeen repositories (ISO and container images) * * AI: We'll need to look closely to see if there is any further improvement needed. 0.2 Log into the git before download the source. * * How to pass the credential through the tooling layer when log into git repo. * * workaround: currently use repo sync outside of the containers. * * AI: Scott to write up a feature request for the tool - file a request in Story Board. 0.3 Pre-patch ISO (Luis) (Carols replacing Luis Barbosa) * AI: to invite Carlos Pocahy to this meeting to discuss Pre-patch ISO. [Done] II. StarlingX 8.0 0.1 Secureboot Enablement * Working on Key in a separte repo. * Need to have a different repo/storage to storage keys without changing any code. * * Scott is creating the git and manifest setup. Fix up the meta data in control file, and send that back to LiZhu. * One option is to interface with the concept of Vault. * Sent the checksum into the Vault to get sign. and the key is always in the Vault. * Put the public key into the public key ring. * Level of indirection, to put the signing method(s) behind an API. * AI: to invite DevSecOPs team from Studio side to discuss Vault's implementation. (lwang8 to invite Yasin) [Done] 0.2 ISO size bigginer than 4G with OOT driver may need to include the kernel source/debug package that will allow OOT tree driver to be built on customer target. * This will add the ISO size back up to greater than 4G. * Extension to the ISO build standard, 9660, for longer file names, addresses the daisy chain of the ISO for larger archieve. * AI: need to investigate the "ISO daisy chain extension of another 4G, and tooling needs. Need to createa story board ticket. 0.3 Kernel Live Patching Integration with the build system * start to look into the requirements of integration of feature. 0.4 STX tree udpate * * Built a temp, and failure to STX8 docker images due to invalid tag. 0.5 CentOS7 on main (master) branch build * Build has stopped/disabled on Feb 7. 0.6 Initramfs will changed for new driver updates * per one of the patch under review: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/872867 * initramfs should *only* be updated if it needs modifications to gain access to the rootfs. This will not mean that it never gets updated, but it will be rare. 3. Open Request for help * * Raspberry Pi support as Edge. * * AI: Mark to reply to the thread and investigate further. Next Meeting: Feb 22, 2023 Thanks, Linda

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