KNI PAE Release 4 Notes
- Ricardo Noriega De Soto
Release Notes for the KNI Provider Access Edge
Summary
The Provider Access Edge blueprint aims to provide a platform for running NFV (e.g. vRAN, vBNG, SEBA) and MEC (e.g. MobileEdgeX) workloads on a small footprint, self-managing Kubernetes-on-bare metal cluster. The release 4 blueprint supports managing a whole edge stack only using Kubernetes resource configs (manifests). Edge stacks created with this blueprint can run both containerised and VM-based workloads (via KubeVirt) on a common platform. Release 4 also includes multi-network support (via Multus). Applications on top of this platform are managed via the Operator Framework.
In Release 4, we worked on upgrading the existing components and stabilizing the platform, plus replacing the old CentOS RT worker nodes by the native support of CoreOS, the base operating system for our Kubernetes distribution: OpenShift.
What is Released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
Helper tool simplifying CI/CD based blueprint deployments into AWS, GCP, and bare metal (or virtual bare metal) using the upstream OpenShift Kubernetes Distro (OKD): https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/kni/installer
Manifests for configuring Kubernetes cluster, and adding additional workloads for Mobile Edge Applications: https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/kni/blueprint-pae
All our code is released under Apache license: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
Dependencies of the release (upstream version, patches)
- OKD v4.5 GA
- CRI-O: v1.18
- KubeVirt v0.27.2
- Ceph 14.2.8 (2d095e947a02261ce61424021bb43bd3022d35cb) nautilus (stable)
- Multus-cni: version:v4.3.3-202002171705, commit:d406b4470f58367df1dd79b47e6263582b8fb511
Upgrade Procedures
N/A
Release Data
Enhancements
N/A
Functionality changes fo Release 4
- Replaced CentOS-RT worker nodes by native RT kernel support from CoreOS.
New Features for Release 4
- Stabilization of the whole platform
Version change
4.0.0
Module version changes
N/A
Document Version Changes
| 0.1 | 30-May-2019 | KNI Blueprint Team | First Draft |
| 1.0 | 15-Nov-2019 | KNI Blueprint Team | Corrected version |
| 2.0 | 25-Nov-2019 | KNI Blueprint PAE team | Release 2 version |
| 3.0 | 24-Apr-2020 | KNI Blueprint PAE Team | Release 3 version |
| 4.0 | 17-Dec-2020 | KNI Blueprint PAE Team | Release 4 version |
Deliverable
Software Deliverable
Software is available in the Akraino KNI repo.
Documentation Deliverable
Fixed Issues and Bugs
N/A
Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
System Limitations
Open Air Interface will be added in next releases.
Known Issues
N/A
Workarounds
N/A