JOID LXD Release Notes

1. Abstract

This document compiles the release notes for the Danube release of OPNFV when using JOID as a deployment tool with KVM hypervisor.

2. Introduction

These notes provides release information for the use of joid as deployment tool for the Danube release of OPNFV with KVM hypervisor for containers scenario.

The goal of the Danube 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

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution

for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.

Danube release with the JOID deployment with KVM hypervisor will establish an OPNFV target system on a Pharos compliant lab infrastructure.

The current definition of an OPNFV target system is and OpenStack Newton.

The system is deployed with OpenStack High Availability (HA) for most OpenStack services.

User has following choices to make to do the deployment.

  • Openstack – Newton
  • Type – HA, nonHA, tip (stable git branch of respective openstack)
  • Feature – KVM (hypervisor)

NOTE: Detailed information on how to install in your lab can be find in installation guide command to deploy lxd feature is:

#KVM deployment with HA Openstack ./deploy.sh -o newton -f none -t ha -l custom -s nosdn

#LXD deployment with no HA Openstack ./deploy.sh -o newton -f none -t noha -l custom -s nosdn

4. Using Openstack

admin-openrc file have been placed under ~/joid_config/ Please source the same and use OpenStack API to do rest of the configuration.

5. Release Data

Project JOID
Repo/tag gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/joid.git stable/danube
Release designation Danube release
Release date April 01 2017
Purpose of the delivery Danube release

5.1. Deliverables

5.1.1. Software deliverables

JOID based installer script files

6. Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

6.1. Known issues

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA:  

7. Scenario Releases

Name: joid-os-nosdn-lxd-ha Test Link: https://build.opnfv.org/ci/view/joid/job/joid-os-nosdn-lxd-ha-baremetal-daily-danube/ Notes:

Name: joid-os-nosdn-lxd-noha Test Link: https://build.opnfv.org/ci/view/joid/job/joid-os-nosdn-lxd-noha-baremetal-daily-danube/ Notes: