OPNFV Release Note for the AArch64 Brahmaputra 3.0 release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .. (c) Jonas Bjurel (Ericsson AB) and others

Abstract

This document compiles the release notes for the Brahmaputra 3.0 release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool, with an AArch64 (only) target node pool.

Important notes

These notes provide release information for the use of Fuel as deployment tool for the AArch64 Brahmaputra 3.0 release of OPNFV.

The goal of the Brahmaputra release and this Fuel-based deployment process is to establish a lab ready platform accelerating further development of the OPNFV infrastructure on AArch64 architecture.

Due to early docker and nodejs support on AArch64, we will still use an x86_64 Fuel Master to build and deploy an AArch64 target pool.

Although not currently supported, mixing x86_64 and AArch64 architectures inside the target pool will be possible later.

Carefully follow the installation-instructions provided in Reference 13.

Summary

For AArch64 Brahmaputra, the typical use of Fuel as an OpenStack installer is supplemented with OPNFV unique components such as:

The following OPNFV plugins are not yet ported for AArch64:

As well as OPNFV-unique configurations of the Hardware- and Software stack.

This Brahmaputra artifact provides Fuel as the deployment stage tool in the OPNFV CI pipeline including:

  • Documentation built by Jenkins
    • overall OPNFV documentation
    • this document (release notes)
    • installation instructions
    • build-instructions
  • The Brahmaputra Fuel installer image for AArch64 (.iso) built by Jenkins
  • Automated deployment of Brahmaputra with running on bare metal or a nested hypervisor environment (KVM)
  • Automated validation of the Brahmaputra deployment

Release Data

Project fuel
Repo/tag brahmaputra.3.0
Release designation Brahmaputra 3.0 follow-up release
Release date May 6 2016
Purpose of the delivery Brahmaputra alignment to Released Fuel 8.0 baseline + Bug-fixes for the following feaures/scenarios: - Added AArch64 target support - OpenDaylight SR1

Version change

Module version changes

This is the first AArch64 release for Brahmaputra 3.0. It is based on following upstream versions:

  • Fuel 8.0 Base release
  • OpenStack Liberty release
  • OPNFV Fuel Brahmaputra 3.0 release
  • OpenDaylight Beryllium SR1 release

Document changes

This is based upon a follow-up release to Brahmaputra 1.0. It comes with the following documentation:

  • Installation instructions - Reference 13 - Changed
  • Build instructions - Reference 14 - Changed
  • Release notes - Reference 15 - Changed (This document)

Reason for version

Feature additions

JIRA TICKETS:

AArch64 new features ‘https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11129‘

(Also See respective Integrated feature project’s bug tracking)

Bug corrections

JIRA TICKETS:

AArch64 Workarounds ‘https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11126‘

(Also See respective Integrated feature project’s bug tracking)

Deliverables

Software deliverables

Fuel-based installer iso file for AArch64 targets found in Reference 2

Documentation deliverables

  • Installation instructions - Reference 13
  • Build instructions - Reference 14
  • Release notes - Reference 15 (This document)

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

System Limitations

  • Max number of blades: 1 Fuel master, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades
  • Min number of blades: 1 Fuel master, 1 Controller, 1 Compute blade
  • Storage: Ceph is the only supported storage configuration
  • Max number of networks: 65k
  • Fuel master arch: x86_64
  • Target node arch: aarch64

Known issues

JIRA TICKETS:

AArch64 Known issues ‘https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11127‘

(Also See respective Integrated feature project’s bug tracking)

Workarounds

JIRA TICKETS:

AArch64 Workarounds ‘https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11128‘

(Also See respective Integrated feature project’s bug tracking)

Test results

The Brahmaputra 3.0 release with the Fuel deployment tool has undergone QA test runs, see separate test results.