Feature Request Overview
Improving availability zone–aware scheduling by introducing a soft anti-affinity policy for server groups.
Upstream Tracker [1].

Business justification
This feature represents a dependancy to the Octavia feature [2] which is highly important to the customer context.

(Optional) Point of contact
TAM

Customer Timeline
The customer emphasized the need for a Red Hat solution to meet these requirements, otherwise, they might turn to third-party load balancing tools. For example, if we announce that the features could only be introduced in RHOSO 19 timeframe, core42 aims to start looking to an external solution
FR6 as a timeframe may work for core42.

[1]: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/900296
[2]: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHOSSTRAT-519