Comment 2 for bug 1903725

I think this is because on Ussuri [0] the default Barbican config was:

# Create the Barbican database on service startup. (boolean value)
#db_auto_create = true

but on Victoria in because `false` by default. Validating locally.

[0]: https://docs.openstack.org/barbican/ussuri/sample_config.html