openstack/kayobe — Week of 2026-09-12

nmstate engine. The biggest feature landing is check and diff mode support for the nmstate network engine, adding roughly 330 lines to let operators preview configuration changes before applying them (review). Alongside it, the nmstate zone sync path for cloud-init profiles was fixed and backported.

Ansible compatibility. Configuration dump was repaired for ansible-core 2.19+, a ~300-line change to keep kayobe configuration dump working on the newer runtime. Supported Ansible versions were also bumped to the 13.x/14.x series.

Safety and connectivity. A new safeguard ensures hosts are never rebooted without explicit permission. The external connectivity check now skips when Kayobe is running behind a proxy, and a companion CI change disables the network connectivity check where it was noisy.

Tooling and CI. Four backports switch CI jobs from cached cirros images to direct downloads, and the overcloud-base job timeout was raised to three hours.