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

License

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Abstract

This document compiles the release notes for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool.

Important notes

These notes provides release information for the use of Fuel as deployment tool for the Brahmaputra 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.

Carefully follow the installation-instructions provided in Reference 13.

Summary

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

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 (.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.1.0
Release designation Brahmaputra base release
Release date February 25 2016
Purpose of the delivery Brahmaputra base release

Version change

Module version changes

This is the second tracked release of genesis/fuel. It is based on following upstream versions:

  • Fuel 8.0 pre-release
  • OpenStack Liberty release
  • OpenDaylight Beryllium pre-release <TODO>
  • ONOS Drake release

Document changes

This is the third tracked version of the fuel installer for OPNFV. 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:

New features

Bug corrections

JIRA TICKETS:

Bug-fixes

Deliverables

Software deliverables

Fuel-based installer iso file 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

Known issues

JIRA TICKETS:

Known issues

Workarounds

Test results

The Brahmaputra release with the Fuel deployment tool has undergone QA test runs with the following results: <TODO>

References

For more information on the OPNFV Brahmaputra release, please see

Fuel in OPNFV

  1. OPNFV Installation instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
  2. OPNFV Build instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
  3. OPNFV Release Note for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool