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 1 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 1 also includes multi-network support (via Multus). Applications on top of this platform are managed via the Operator Framework.
In Release 2, we worked on general stability of the project, and we also added new features:
- functionality to deploy baremetal clusters in a total automated way
- support for CentOS realtime nodes, and its realtime tuning
- added Ceph support for storage
What is Released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
Helper tool simplifying CI/CD based blueprint deployments into AWS, libvirt, and 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 v4.2 GA
- KubeVirt v0.20.2
- Ceph v14.2.3-20190904
- Multus commit d3a1815632cc3e1c7beb10165f960b4708d097fa
Upgrade Procedures
N/A
Release Data
Enhancements
N/A
Functionality changes fo Release 2
- Baremetal deployment totally automated
New Features for Release 2
- Added support for Centos 7 RT nodes and realtime tuning
- Added Ceph support
Version change
2.0.0
Module version changes
N/A
Document Version Changes
Version No. | Date | Author | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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
Support for RHCOS-RT will be added in next releases.
Open Air Interface will be added in next releases.
Known Issues
N/A
Workarounds
N/A