What is the business rationale for this exception? Is there a specific customer that needs this RFE?

This RFE improves operator experience and reduces probabilities of misconfigurations or outage by eliminating the need of a NFS share between the OSP controllers. This allows customers especially the ones using ceph to benefit from glance image import plugin with local image files.

This feature was initially planned for 17.1GA but missed QE verification deadline.

The tripleO RFE is already verified, exception requested via OSP-27205.

Are there any security concerns?

None

What other functions, teams, or DFGs are impacted by this feature?

None

What is the estimated time to have the upstream work complete and approved?

Upstream work done

What is the time and resources required to test this issue? On what date will automated tests be written and ready to run and report results in Polarion?

Targeting z2 for testing completion

Is there potential doc impact?

Yes this feature needs to be documented.

Are there new packages needed that are not packaged in OSP or RHEL? Does it require newer versions of existing dependencies (dependency bumps)?

No new packages or dependencies.
What is the support level? Tech Preview or fully supported

GA

How invasive is the code? From very invasive, a core change to very isolated, no risk to other components?

Both the tripleO and core glance code are merged downstream.

What is the impact to deployment/updates/upgrades/FFU; what are the test plans in these areas?

No impact on upgrades.