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+# NOTE: This is an environment specific for containers upgrade
+# CI. Mainly we deploy non-pacemakerized overcloud, as at the time
+# being containerization of services managed by pacemaker is not
+# complete, so we deploy and upgrade the non-HA services for now.
+
+resource_registry:
+  OS::TripleO::Controller::Net::SoftwareConfig: ../common/net-config-multinode-os-net-config.yaml
+  OS::TripleO::Compute::Net::SoftwareConfig: ../common/net-config-multinode-os-net-config.yaml
+
+parameter_defaults:
+  ControllerServices:
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephMon
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephOSD
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderScheduler
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderVolume
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Docker
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Kernel
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Keystone
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCfn
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCloudwatch
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatEngine
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQL
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQLClient
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronDhcpAgent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronL3Agent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronMetadataAgent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronServer
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronCorePlugin
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronOvsAgent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::RabbitMQ
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HAproxy
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Keepalived
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Memcached
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Pacemaker
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaConductor
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaPlacement
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaMetadata
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaScheduler
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Ntp
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::SwiftProxy
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::SwiftStorage
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::SwiftRingBuilder
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Snmp
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Timezone
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaCompute
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaLibvirt
+  ControllerExtraConfig:
+    nova::compute::libvirt::services::libvirt_virt_type: qemu
+    nova::compute::libvirt::libvirt_virt_type: qemu
+    # Required for Centos 7.3 and Qemu 2.6.0
+    nova::compute::libvirt::libvirt_cpu_mode: 'none'
+    #NOTE(gfidente): not great but we need this to deploy on ext4
+    #http://docs.ceph.com/docs/jewel/rados/configuration/filesystem-recommendations/
+    ceph::profile::params::osd_max_object_name_len: 256
+    ceph::profile::params::osd_max_object_namespace_len: 64
+  SwiftCeilometerPipelineEnabled: False
+  Debug: True