Changelog & Release Notes

CNF Reference Architecture v22.12

New Features

  • Automated Kubernetes cluster setup

  • Automated private Docker registry setup

  • Automated pinning of networking workload to isolated CPU cores

Changed

As the initial version, the features in this release are summarized as below:

Tested platforms:

  • DUT

    • Ampere Altra (Neoverse-N1)

      • Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)

      • Kernel 5.17.0-051700-generic

    • Container Image

      • Latest Ubuntu: 22.04 (as of this release)

  • NIC

    • Mellanox ConnectX-5

      • OFED driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-3.1.0.0

      • Firmware Version 16.30.1004 (MT_0000000013)

    • Intel X710

      • Firmware version: 6.01

  • Management Node

    • Ubuntu 20.04 system

      • Python 3.8

      • Ansible 6.5.0

Main software components versions:

  • Ansible 6.5.0

  • DPDK v21.11

Documentation:

  • Initial documentation with README, overview, quickstart guide, user guide, solution design and FAQ.

Tools:

  • Added scripts for:

    • Sphinx based documentation generation

    • Document spelling check

    • Commit log format check

    • License-Identifier check

Limitations

  • Users of this software stack must consider safety and security implications according to their own usage goals.

  • Does not provide native traffic generator.

  • Application pods using Mellanox VFs require the privileged security context.

  • DPDK L3 forward sample application deployed in K8s cluster only supports single Ethernet port case.

Resolved Issues

None.

Known Issues

None.