New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information

The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide up to this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes that are made to the guide or of the new features up to this release.

Table 1. New Features and Changed Behavior

Cisco APIC Release Version

Feature

Description

Where Documented

5.0(1) Ironic bare metal support

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) OpenStack plug-in now supports Ironic, the OpenStack feature that provisions bare metal machines.

OpenStack Configuring Ironic

4.2(3.20191220) tripleo-ciscoaci-13.0-749.noarch.rpm version of the OpenStack plug-in

Support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Everywhere

This feature allows you to use the Cisco ACI OpFlex plug-in with Red Hat OpenStack 13 deployed with TLS on internal endpoints (EPs), external EPs, or both.

Deploying with TLS

4.2(1)

Support for an upstream Docker registry.

The feature allows you to use an upstream- or satellite-based Docker Registry when deploying Red Hat OpenStack.

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller OpenStack Plug-in Release Notes, Release 4.2(1)

4.2(1)

Run Bond Watch Service from Heat template

When integrating Cisco UCS B-Series to work with Cisco ACI and OpenStack orchestration, you can run the bond watch service by enabling a parameter to the Heat template.

The ACIEnableBondWatchService parameter enables the apic-bond-watch service when it is added to the Cisco ACI resources template and set to true.

4.2(1)

OpenStack Director deployments can now use certificate-based authentication with Cisco ACI.

Add the ACIApicCertName and ACIApicPrivateKey parameters to the Heat template to enable certificate-based authentication for Cisco ACI.

Parameters for the Cisco ACI Environment

4.2(1)

Automatic purge of the tenant from Cisco ACI when a project is deleted from OpenStack

Setting the parameter AciKeystoneNotificationPurge to True enables Keystone notification purge.

Parameters for the Cisco ACI Environment

N/A Configuration of UCS B-Series for Cisco ACI and OpenStack Orchestration Added appendix about configuring UCS B-Series for Cisco ACI and OpenStack orchestration. Configuring UCS B-Series

4.1(1)

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