--- prelude: > The internal pluggable IPAM implementation -- added in the Liberty release -- is now the default for both old and new deployments. Old deployments are unconditionally switched to pluggable IPAM during upgrade. Old non-pluggable IPAM is deprecated and removed from code base. upgrade: - During upgrade 'internal' ipam driver becomes default for 'ipam_driver' config option and data is migrated to new tables using alembic migration. deprecations: - The non-pluggable ipam implementatios is deprecated and will be removed in Newton release cycle.