05-03-2023 TSC Meeting Minutes

TSC Meeting Zoom link

Meeting Recording: 

Meeting Chat File: 

Attendees & Representation. Please add your name to the attendance table below.

LF Staff: LJ Illuzzi 

Agenda

• LF Antitrust Policy

• Meeting note taker

• Welcome to new attendees

• Weekly TSC Meeting Day and Time Change
• R2 Release Management (Dhivya)
• LFN Governing Board Meeting May 17- Project Updates
• L3AF deployment and integration with UPF
• LFN Developer & Testing Forum June 2023 - Call for Topic Submissions
• Issue discussion/Dev updates
• Walmart Open Sourced Traffic Mirroring - Blog
• AOB

• General Topics (cover as needed)

  • Use Cases

  • Roadmap

  • Project structure

    • Governance

    • Technical Steering Committee

Minutes/Updates

• Weekly TSC Meeting Day and Time Change
  • Proposed new day and time: Tuesdays at 8am PT. Starting May 9.
  • Chat vote
    • Discussed, still working on resolving conflicts.
    • Still working on resolving conflicts.
    • Lj will look for an alternate to cover the 8new slot at 8:00 am. PST 

• R2 Release Management (Dhivya)

• LFN Governing Board Meeting May 17
  • Project Update
  • Need community input on slide deck.
    • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tmjKxyfEqoNL_3WXKBRdubIgwpdqVlkTcYju2O_zWOw/edit?usp=sharing

• L3AF deployment and integration with UPF
  • https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058818200121004032?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
  • Opportunities:
    • D&TF topic
    • Blog - can L3AF community and NgKore provide quotes? 
      • Yes, after exams.
      • Get quotes from ngcore and L3AF.
      • LFN marketing committee
      • Possibly use for the D&TF.

• LFN Developer & Testing Forum June 2023 - Call for Topic Submissions - June 6-8, 2023. Virtual event
  • Potential Topics:
    • R1 Overview and Demo (includes traffic mirroring)
    • L3AF deployment and integration with UPF
    • Roadmap: R2, R2.1, L3AF on Windows
  • Topics Submission Page
  • Virtual D&TF session guidelines

• Issue discussion/Dev updates
  • L3AF R2
    • 233, 234 and 235 will be completed soon.
    • 236 (Dynamic updates) need solution using BTF an Go formater
    • 177 (RBAC) Progress on packages, docs, etc that will be delivered?
      • Blogs, user docs, rel notes.
      • Template for rel notes that generates bugs, features, ect.
      • Need to work on user manual.
    • eBPF enhancements #38
      • Can merge and close.
      • Add additional issues as needed
  • Opinions on dynamic map updates
    • support hash and array maps currently uint32 for key and value
    • Want to support JSON so that it works similarly to BPF tool.
    • Windows does not support BTF
      • Push into the client. Don't do anything to L3AFd so that we can be cross-platform and support older versions.
      • Could also do this in two layers.
  • L3AFD v2.1
  • L3AF on Windows
    • LFN Mentorship Program for L3AF on Windows

• Walmart Open Sourced Traffic Mirroring - Blog
  
  • Received approval, publishing tomorrow.
  • Ping the marketing folks as soon as it is published.

• Signing of eBPF Programs (Karan/Arunkanth)
  • Developing guidance document
    • Reduce attack surface by running in least privileged mode.
      • Unpriv, JIT limit, JIT hardened, BPF disable verifier.
    • This doc might belong in a non-L3AF repo with a link to it.
• Any Other Business

Action Items

• Dhivya R Release Management Plan- add milestoners for testing, documentation, package. What else is needed from a delivery standpoint?
• Daniel Havey coordinate Traffic Monitoring Blog with LFN Marketing

Future Agenda Items

• Signing of eBPF Programs (Karan)