From 6a6dfaf1378a009d099ad5c50ec5ec06fca263cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandra Settle Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:14:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [release-notes] Update for training labs newton release notes Change-Id: Ic72dfd0ef101648e639990f96e2107ca8cbd1e8d --- releasenotes/source/newton.rst | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/releasenotes/source/newton.rst b/releasenotes/source/newton.rst index 5dc2db43d7..35e228f612 100644 --- a/releasenotes/source/newton.rst +++ b/releasenotes/source/newton.rst @@ -117,6 +117,56 @@ Training guides * Improved and restructured `Upstream Training `_ * Added new chapters in the draft `Training guides `_ +Training labs +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Training labs landing page is published under `docs.openstack.org `_: + + * Users can download zip/tar files for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms + for supported releases. + +* PXE feature for training-labs: + + * PXE booting functionality is available as a pluggable driver in parallel with + KVM/VirtualBox. + * PXE boot could also be used as a mechanism for provisioning KVM/VirtualBox + based workloads. + +* Stability improvements: + + * Various stability improvements have been added in this release. + * Windows platform support has been updated and improved. + * Training cluster should additionally have higher deployment rate. + * Improvements in networking related challenges. + +* Performance improvements: + + * Cluster setup speed is improving after addition of multiple features. + * KVM/Libvirt backends now use shared storage. Hard disks for the cluster are + diffs on top of the base disk. This uses lesser storage space. + * Block storage (cinder) has a dedicated disk as opposed to file mounted as loop + device. This should improve performance and provide persistence for cinder-volumes + over reboots. + * Performance improvements by fixing race conditions occurring due + to virtualization overhead. + * Improvements to the library scripts. + +* Test coverage: + + * Added more tests to ``repeat_test`` scripts. + * User interface test cases to check the availability of horizon have + been implemented. + +* Updates for supporting new operating systems. For example, Ubuntu 16.04. +* Adds support for x86/i386 architecture. +* Updates to the CLI along with many improvements to address new features. +* Newton support: + + * Newton support should be available shortly after the OpenStack release. + * This delay is intentional, to let the distribution packages stabilize. + * To maintain certain quality, we wait till all of our test cases and + reliability checks are meeting certain criteria. + User guides ~~~~~~~~~~~