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)