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[Chuck Short <chuck.short@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:20:11 +0000
Lillie Ross-CDSR11 <Ross.Lillie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With the pending release of Essex, I'm making plans to upgrade our
> internal cloud infrastructure.  My question is what will be the best
> approach?
> 
> Our cloud is being used to support internal research activities and
> thus needs to be 'relatively' stable, however as new features become
> available (major features), it would be nice to be able to role them
> into our operational cloud relatively painlessly (wishful thinking
> perhaps).
> 
> My question is, should I base our new installation directly off the
> Essex branch in the git repository, or use the packages that will be
> deployed as part of the associated Ubuntu 12.04LTS release?  With
> Diablo, I was forced to use packages from the ManagedIT PPA with
> additional Keystone patches to get a consistent, stable platform up
> and running.  Obviously, some of these problems were due to confusion
> caused by various documents describing different incarnations of
> Openstack, and not really knowing what was current and stable.
> Especially the packages shipped with Ubuntu made assumptions about
> how Openstack was to be deployed that wasn't really apparent.
> 
> Just wondering.  Any thoughts appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Ross
> 
> 
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Hi,

When you upgrade your servers to Precise, then you will get the final
essex versions that will be in Precise as well.

Regards
chuck