Sunbeam Forecast — January 19, 2026

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:sun: Sunbeam Forecast — January 19, 2026

Happy Monday and welcome to this week’s Sunbeam Forecast! Over the last pulse, we’ve been focused on the core operations of Sunbeam such as observability, storage, networking flexibility, and deployment workflows as we work towards a more stable and user-friendly Sunbeam experience.

Here’s what landed recently and what’s coming next:

:new_button: Highlights from the Last Pulse

Migration to OpenTelemetry Collector – Sunbeam has begun migrating away from the deprecated grafana-agent in favour of the OpenTelemetry collector. This unlocks future observability improvements, including the ability to monitor Kubernetes workloads and MicroCeph.

OVN version skew tolerance – Work was completed that ensures Sunbeam remains resilient when minor versions of ovn-controller and ovn-central-k8s differ. Since schema compatibility is guaranteed within a release, this prevents unnecessary breakage during upgrades or mixed-version deployments.

Storage array snap interface support – Support for storage-array snap interfaces has been added, allowing privileged interfaces to auto-connect for iSCSI, NVMe, and multipath usage. This simplifies integration for cinder-volume and openstack-hypervisor and reduces the need for manual snap configuration.

OVS CLI refactor for future networking work – Internal refactoring of OVS CLI usage across the hypervisor and network agents simplifies the codebase and lays the groundwork for upcoming work on external OVS bridge support.

Terragrunt deployment and MAAS DHCP enhancements – Improvements to the OpenStack Terragrunt stack now allow better configuration of MAAS DHCP and more complete Sunbeam deployment workflows.

Deprecated external network field handling – A bug fix now allows deprecated external network fields to continue working, improving backward compatibility and reducing friction for existing deployments.

Bootstrapping and Juju model migration fixes – Fixes landed to resolve Sunbeam bootstrap issues related to Juju model migration, improving reliability during initial deployment and upgrades.

Configurable Tempest accounts – Tempest validation in Sunbeam now supports configurable accounts, giving operators more flexibility when validating deployed clouds.

:bullseye: Goals for the Next Pulse

Over the next pulse, we’re planning to focus on:

  • Preparing groundwork for Gazpacho in Sunbeam — laying the foundational pieces needed to support the upcoming OpenStack Gazpacho in Sunbeam.
  • Improved MySQL upgrade workflows — refining and hardening the MySQL K8s charm upgrade process as part of the sunbeam cluster refresh flow.
  • MicroOVN migration — advancing work to support MicroOVN migration paths, improving network lifecycle management and upgrade flexibility.

:handshake: How to Get Involved

No contribution is too big or too small. Regardless of skill level, come chat!

Thanks again to everyone contributing code, docs, reviews, and feedback. Your enthusiasm keeps Sunbeam moving forward!

See you in the next Forecast! :waving_hand:

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