openstack/kolla-ansible — Week of 2026-06-20

Driver and service additions. A new VAST Cinder driver landed, along with Glance-on-Cinder-via-VAST support, expanding the storage backend matrix (review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kolla-ansible/+/959524). On the compute side, nova-libvirt now starts virtlogd and routes console logs through it. Prometheus gains an Alertmanager healthcheck, and Ironic deployments now set an explicit tempdir (landed on master plus a stable backport).

Container and clustering behavior. The kolla_container/podman path now creates bind-mounted host directories when they're missing, smoothing first-run deploys. RabbitMQ on single-node setups switches from drain to stop during upgrades, and the loadbalancer role no longer creates the MariaDB monitor user — that responsibility moves elsewhere. Obsolete Horizon settings were also pruned.

Bug fixes and backports. The OVN SB relay port calculation was broken for relay counts greater than nine; the fix landed on master and was backported to two stable branches. A trio of docs patches across the same branches warns about password resets in the Ceph RGW guide.

Tooling and CI. ProxySQL test coverage was reworked (~180 lines), the gate now installs docker-buildx-plugin (guarded to docker-only), the keepalived track-script workaround was reverted, and jobs moved back to the openstack-python3-jobs template.