2022-01-11 - Anuket: RA-1 (OpenStack based) What's next?

Topic Overview

60 minutes

The intent is to solicit inputs for RA-1 in order to adjust the content of Moselle release.

Topics of interest: what else, acceleration, Telco edge cloud, multi-cloud/hybrid cloud, storage, and automation

Live Interactive Session

Status of Lakelse release and scope of what is covered
Brainstorm on what needs to be included/modified in RA-1
Acceleration: feedbacks required on the use of Cyborg and on the support of accelerators like FPGA, smartNIC or GPU
Telco edge cloud
Multi-cloud/hybrid cloud
Storage: solutions beyond CEPH
Automation: Cloud provisioning, LCM

Quick presentation on RA-1 Lakelse Release

Acceleration

@Walter.kozlowskiAdd Cyborg to RI and RC?
@Beth CohenHW Acceleration in private cloud. What are we doing, for example, for crypto?
@John HartleyHW Acceleration at Edge is absolutely necessary
- pls see Edge below
@Riccardo Gasparetto RA2 has some requirements on HW acceleration
@Riccardo Gasparettouse k8s for scheduling of resource requests, consumption and management incl scaling. Plugins for acceleration devices. Examples: encryption acceleration.
@Karine Sevilla we need use cases to justify further work on HW ACceleration in RA1. Use case with compute intensive requirements can be a candidate.

Edge

Is OpenStack relevant for the Edge?
@IldikoWhat constitutes Edge?
@Beth CohenVZN has several products at the Edge incl. OpenStack at the Edge. Minimal OSTK on 1 or 2 cores.
- Another product, K8s on OpenStack allowing customers to run their workloads.
  - Retail, manufacturing, small office environments
- Tenant management is the tricky point
@Beth Cohen @IldikoWindriver deploys services with OpenStack at the edge
@John Hartley wind river are significant contributer to starlingX project
Gaps: Tools for deployment, config, updates, ...
- HW disaggregation is still hard
- Testing and verification support for HW and service chains

Hybrid and multi-cloud

@Pankaj.Goyal should RA1 deal with hybrid/multi-cloud
- or just keep to private/on-prem specs
@John HartleyAnuket to orchestrate hybrid multi-cloud
@Karine SevillaWe must check if services orchestration within a hybrid multi cloud environment is adressed by other communities, such as ONAP
@Beth CohenIt can be a cross communities topic
@Walter.kozlowski @John Hartley RM should address orchestration at least for network, interactions needed between RM and RAs
@John Hartley Check ETSI documents on network orchestration
@Karine SevillaNo feedback from the audience on OMNI project adoption
@Ildiko OMNI doesn’t seem to be active, the last changes in the repo were ~3 years ago

Storage

@Cédric Ollivier:
- From an API point of view, we don't deal with CEPH but storage features exposed by the API
- CNTT RC1 was also verified vs the default backend used in OpenStack gates
@John Hartley Should see how Storage Model from RM can be achieved with RA-1 architecture.

Automation