OPNFV Release Note for the Arno SR1 release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool

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Abstract

This document compiles the release notes for the Arno SR1 release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool.

License

Arno SR1 release with the Fuel deployment tool Docs (c) by Jonas Bjurel (Ericsson AB)

Arno SR1 release with the Fuel deployment tool Docs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You should have received a copy of the license along with this. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.

Version history

Date Ver. Author Comment
2015-06-03 1.0.0 Jonas Bjurel Arno SR0 release
2015-09-28 1.1.3 Jonas Bjurel Arno SR1 release

Important notes

For the first OPNFV release (Arno), these notes introduce use of OpenStack Fuel <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel> for the deployment stage of the OPNFV continuous integration (CI) pipeline. The goal of the Arno release and this Fuel-based deployment process is to establish a foundational platform accelerating further development of the OPNFV infrastructure.

Carefully follow the installation-instructions and pay special attention to the pre-deploy script that needs to be run before deployment is started.

Summary

For Arno SR1, the typical use of Fuel as an OpenStack installer is supplemented with OPNFV unique components such as OpenDaylight version Helium as well as OPNFV-unique configurations.

This Arno artefact provides Fuel as the deployment stage tool in the OPNFV CI pipeline including:

Release Data

Project genesis/bgs
Repo/tag genesis/arno.2015.2.0
Release designation Arno Base Service release 1 (SR1)
Release date 2015-10-01
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV Arno Base SR1 release

Version change

Module version changes

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

  • Fuel 6.1.0
  • OpenStack Juno release
  • OpenDaylight Litium release

Document version changes

This is the second tracked version of the fuel installer for OPNFV. It comes with the following documentation:

  • OPNFV Installation instructions for Arno with Fuel as deployment tool
  • OPNFV Release Notes for Arno use of Fuel as deployment tool
  • OPNFV Build instructions for Arno with Fuel as deployment tool

Reason for version

Feature additions

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA: FUEL-4 Baselining Fuel 6.0.1 for OPNFV
JIRA: FUEL-17 Integration of OpenDaylight

Bug corrections

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA: BGS-57 The OpenDaylight Helium release is not fully functional and the resulting Fuel integration is not able to cope with the deficiancies. It is therefore not recommended to to enable this option. A functional integration of ODL version: Lithium is expected to be available in an upcomming service release.

Deliverables

Software deliverables

Fuel-based installer iso file <arno.2015.2.0.fuel.iso>

Documentation deliverables

  • OPNFV Installation instructions for Arno release with the Fuel deployment tool - ver. 1.1.0
  • OPNFV Build instructions for Arno release with the Fuel deployment tool - ver. 1.1.0
  • OPNFV Release Note for Arno release with the Fuel deployment tool - ver. 1.1.3 (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: 3800 (Needs special switch config.)

Known issues

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA: FUEL-43 VMs not accessible through SSH due to VXLAN 50 Byte overhead and lack of proper MTU value setting on virtual ethernet devices
JIRA: FUEL-44 Centos 6.5 option has not been enough verified

Workarounds

See JIRA: FUEL-43 <https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/FUEL-43>

Test Result

Arno SR1 release with the Fuel deployment tool has undergone QA test runs with the following results: https://wiki.opnfv.org/arno_sr1_result_page?rev=1443626728

References

For more information on the OPNFV Arno release, please see http://wiki.opnfv.org/releases/arno.

Authors:Jonas Bjurel (Ericsson)
Version:1.1.3

Documentation tracking

Revision: 9c9a2ec11f2baebe31a20de16706ae58f303665f

Build date: Wed Sep 30 16:51:59 UTC 2015