openstack/kolla-ansible — Week of 2026-06-27

Libvirt logging. The largest change wires up virtlogd inside the nova-libvirt container and routes guest console logs through it, replacing direct file logging for serial consoles (review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kolla-ansible/+/993458).

Deployer behavior. A kolla_toolbox fix corrects the HOME environment variable when the container runs, addressing tooling that misbehaved under the wrong home directory. Alongside that, the default behavior for user creation was adjusted — a deliberate change to how Kolla provisions accounts rather than a bug fix.

Stability fixes. The Podman backend gained a guard against UnicodeDecodeError in PodmanWorker.compare_config. A stray trailing quote in the barbican_api healthcheck was removed (landed twice across branches). The migrate-valkey playbook is now properly limited in scope, and Ironic conductor picked up an explicit tempdir setting plus a switch to running non-privileged.

CI and packaging. Gate setup was repaired around buildx installation, and openstacksdk was pinned to keep Ironic jobs green.