JOID Release Notes

1. Abstract

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

2. Introduction

These notes provides release information for the use of joid as deployment tool for the Euphrates release of OPNFV.

The goal of the Euphrates release and this JOID based deployment process is to establish a lab ready platform accelerating further development of the OPNFV infrastructure.

Carefully follow the installation-instructions which guides a user to deploy OPNFV using JOID which is based on MAAS and Juju.

3. Summary

The Euphrates release with the JOID deployment toolchain will establish an OPNFV target system on a Pharos compliant lab infrastructure. The current definition of an OPNFV target system is and OpenStack Newton combined with OpenDaylight Boron.

The system is deployed with OpenStack High Availability (HA) for most OpenStack services. Ceph storage is used as Cinder backend, and is the only supported storage for Euphrates. Ceph is setup as 3 OSDs and 3 Monitors, one radosgw.

User has following choices to make to do the deployment.

  • Openstack – Newton
  • Type – HA, nonHA, tip (stable git branch of respective openstack)
  • SDN controller – OpenDaylight, nosdn(Openvswitch), Onos, OpenContrail
  • Feature – IPV6, DVR(distributed virtual routing), SFC(service function chaining odl only), BGPVPN(odl only), LB(Load Balancer for Kubernetes)
  • Distro – Xenial
  • Model – Openstack, Kubernetes
  • Documentation is built by Jenkins
  • Jenkins deploys a Denbue release with the JOID deployment toolchain baremetal, which includes 3 control+network nodes, and 2 compute nodes.

NOTE: Detailed information on how to install in your lab can be find in installation guide

4. Release Data

Project JOID
Repo/tag gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/joid.git stable/euphrates
Release designation Euphrates release
Release date October 24 2017
Purpose of the delivery Euphrates release

4.1. Deliverables

4.1.1. Software deliverables

JOID based installer script files

4.1.2. Documentation deliverables

  • Installation instructions
  • Release notes (This document)
  • User guide

4.2. Version change

4.2.1. Module version change

  • Euphrates release with the JOID deployment toolchain.
  • OpenStack (Ocata release)
  • Kubernetes 1.7
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

4.2.2. Document version change

  • OPNFV Installation instructions for the Euphrates release using JOID deployment toolchain - ver. 1.0.0
  • OPNFV Release Notes with the JOID deployment toolchain - ver. 1.0.0 (this document)

4.3. Reason for new version

4.3.1. Feature additions

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA: JOID-1 use Juju and Ubuntu to deploy OPNFV
JIRA: JOID-100 MAAS 2.x support
JIRA: JOID-101 Juju 2.x support
JIRA: JOID-99 jumphost support for 16.04
JIRA: JOID-106 Kubernetes on Baremetal
JIRA: JOID-102 Enable OpenStack Ocata
  Enable OpenContrail
  Enable OVN for Kubernetes

4.3.2. Bug corrections

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA:  

5. Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

5.1. System Limitations

Min jumphost requirements: At least 16GB of RAM, 4 core cpu and 250 gb disk should support virtualization.

5.2. Known issues

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA: YARDSTICK-325 Provide raw format yardstick vm image for nova-lxd scenario(OPNFV)
JIRA: floating ip are not working for ODL.
JIRA: No functest support for Kubernetes.

5.3. Workarounds

See JIRA: <link>