This is a summary of the main changes made to the Placement service in OpenStack, including only visible changes made to the placement service itself. This is cribbed from the commit history, but is only highlights, not a complete reckoning. There are plenty of other changes, both under the hood …

This is a followup to Placement Container Playground

Since its inception there's been a plan that the OpenStack Placement service will be extracted from the nova code repository into a repository of its own. There are a variety of reasons for this, including:

• Nova is already huge.

• It could help …

Your author has been rather ill, so this week's TC Report will be a bit abridged and mostly links. I'll try to return with more robust commentary next week.

RDO Test Days

dmsimard showed up in #openstack-tc channel to provide some details on forthcoming RDO Test Days.

More on the …

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