diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/openstack.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/openstack.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a35cbb454c --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/openstack.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +=== OpenStack on FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://www.openstack.org/[OpenStack] URL: link:https://www.openstack.org/[] + +link:https://github.com/openstack-on-freebsd[OpenStack on FreeBSD] URL: link:https://github.com/openstack-on-freebsd[] + +Contact: Chih-Hsin Chang + +Contact: Li-Wen Hsu + +The OpenStack on FreeBSD project aims to bring OpenStack cloud infrastructure to the FreeBSD operating system, using FreeBSD's special features while keeping it compatible with OpenStack. + +In the third quarter of 2024, we continued working on several important tasks. +Our work on porting OpenStack Ironic is still ongoing, with tests now running on arm64 servers. +In this setup, the service node is amd64, and the provisioning node is arm64. +This helps us explore more options for running mixed environments in OpenStack on FreeBSD. + +In August, we gave link:https://coscup.org/2024/en/session/CKQC9P[a presentation at COSCUP 2024] to share the project's progress and our experiences. +This helped us get more attention and interest from people in the community. + +We also updated some of the OpenStack components, like Keystone, Glance, and Placement, from FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE to FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT. +This update helps us keep up with the latest changes in FreeBSD, making the project run better. + +Another notable item was testing the link:https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=1f903953fbf8615bb611db059417177f6cee07bd[bhyve serial console over TCP patch] and using it in the OpenStack workflow. +This brings us closer to stopping the use of the custom socat-manager solution and moving to a built-in serial console solution. + +Although we are still planning to turn the OpenStack manual installation process into FreeBSD ports, there has not been much progress yet. +We hope to work more on this in the next few months. +Existing work can be found in the link:https://github.com/openstack-on-freebsd/openstack[openstack repository]. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation