Network Cloud R2 Common Release Notes

• Updated automation to deploy using Airship Treasuremap v1.3. Deploying earlier versions of Airship is not supported.
• Deployments require internet connectivity from the Regional Controller and the Rover Pod.  The deployments will not work with proxy servers in this release.
• Openstack is deployed with only keystone v3 authentication enabled. 
• Tempest E2E test will not run in this release because the Tempest save state functions require keystone v2 api.
• The user input file has several changes.  There are example input files provided for SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK blueprints.  The samples files are on the regional controller in /opt/akraino/yaml_builds.

Rover Blueprint  R2 Specific Release Notes

• The Rover blueprint has been validated on HP DL380 Gen 10 and Dell R740xd Purley platforms with the specific network and storage configurations as described in the Validation Labs.  Other configurations will require changes to the input files and possibly the templates used by the automation.

Unicycle OVS-DPDK Blueprint  R2 Specific Release Notes

• The Unicycle with OVS-DPDK blueprint has been validated on Dell R740XD Purley platforms with the specific network and storage configurations as described in the Validation Labs.  Other configurations will require changes to the input files and possibly the templates used by the automation.
• The Unicycle with OVS-DPDK blueprint does not support LAG on it's OVS-DPDK interfaces.
• The Unicycle with OVS-DPDK blueprint supports both VLAN on the OVS-DPDK fabric facing interfaces.
• Validation was completed with 4 nodes <see diagram>
• The updaed template file <insert>

Unicycle SR-IOV Blueprint  R2 Specific Release Notes

• The Unicycle with SR-IOV blueprint has been validated on Dell R740xd Purley platforms with the specific network and storage configurations as described in the Validation Labs.  Other configurations will require changes to the input files and possibly the templates used by the automation.