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Objectives

Install, configure and test a bare-metal Kubernetes environment with components and features aligned with RA-2 to help identify gaps and requirements to accelerate and improve CNTT Cloud Native specifications. Through this activity we expect to learn about RI-2 requirements for installation, configuration and testing to inform ... 

• Lab requirements for deploying and testing RI-2
• Installer requirements for provisioning nodes, installing Kubernetes with required features and their configuration
• Test methods, tools and test-cases to validate RI-2 (adopt and adapt from RI-1/RC-1 and upstream communities wherever possible)
• Test methods, tools and test-cases that delineate commercially significant conformance criteria for evaluating vendor infrastructure solutions i.e. requirements for RC-2
• Selection of hardware skus/platforms that can fulfill Reference Model defined hardware profiles (to demonstrate commercial feasibility of hardware profiles and metric derfinitions)

Activity Artifacts

Lab requirements and setup instructions

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• RM - Hardware profiles / metrics impacting Cloud Native 
• RM - software profiles and configurations for Cloud Native deployments
• RA-2 gaps and requirements feeding RI-2 including installer requirements
• Gaps in test-coverage
• etc.

Activities / Milestones

1. Lab specification and setup Lab Specification and Setup
   1. Evaluate lab requirements from RA-2 (if possible ... may need to read between the lines but this will at least help to give feedback to RA-2 or RI-2) 
   2. Compare with current OPNFV lab spec. (aka Pharos spec.) and highlight any gaps / issues.
   3. Develop / document draft of a CNTT RI-2 lab spec that can be used to deploy and test all Cloud Infrastructure capabilities specified in RA-2. This will be an input to RC for requirements of a CNTT "approved lab" as part of LFN OVP 2.0 (conformance program)
      1. What would be a reasonable number of compute nodes + spec and network topology?
      2. What are differences to CNCF test-bed?
2. Install and configuration of BMRA Kubernetes Bare-Metal Install and Configuration
   1. Document configurations / learning (configuration of hardware / firmware / software)
   2. Cookbook to follow install with configuration steps
   3. Document issues run into since its a different environment (compare to the CNCF test-bed)
3. Map BMRA features against RA-2 requirements Kubernetes Bare-metal Features
   1. Features of BMRA that map to RA-2 requirements
   2. Features of BMRA that point to requirements missing from RA-2
   3. RA-2 requirements not met by BMRA
4. Testing RI-2 (Kubernetes bare-metal testing ) Kubernetes Bare-metal Testing
   1. WIP

Lab Test Environment

References

• Discussion on Lab requirements re. RI-1 https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/INF/CNTT+RI+Lab+Infrastructure+Discussion
• [RI2] Lab requirements #1241 https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/issues/1241

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• Specify baseline for installer starting to provision (predeploy validation check?)
• Features (e.g. SR-IOV) and what needs to be provisioned to enable
• What is done by the installer and what is outside (e.g. BIOS and bootloader config.)
•  ...

CNCF Test activities related to RA-2 / RI-2

Requirements from CNTT RA2 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12EWZVvlumktXoywvmlYPR_DrU34e7Gk_rSED3VyCG4o/edit?pli=1#gid=0

CNF conformance https://github.com/cncf/cnf-conformance

Contributors

• Trevor Cooper 
• Michael Pedersen

About Intel Kubernetes networking reference

• 1:  https://networkbuilders.intel.com/container-bare-metal-reference-architecture-overview-part-1-training-video
• 2: https://networkbuilders.intel.com/container-bare-metal-reference-architecture-technology-part-2-training-video
• 3: https://networkbuilders.intel.com/container-bare-metal-reference-architecture-installation-part-3-training-video
• 4: https://networkbuilders.intel.com/container-bare-metal-reference-architecture-verification-part-4-training-video

About the Intel OPNFV Community Lab

Currently the Intel OPNFV lab environments are configured as standard OPNFV "PODs" (not to be confused with a Kubernetes POD). Two environments (12 servers) have been reserved for this activity, lab resource allocation can be seen here https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/pharos/Intel+Lab. For access VPN credentials can be obtained by following the standard OPNFV lab support process found here https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/INF/Infra+Lab+Support. Access for individual access can be approved by either Tom Kivlinor Trevor Cooper.

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