1. OPNFV Fuel Release Notes

1.1. Abstract

This document provides the release notes for Hunter release with the Fuel deployment toolchain.

Starting with Gambia release, both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures are supported at the same time by the fuel codebase.

1.2. License

All Fuel and “common” entities are protected by the Apache License 2.0.

1.3. Important Notes

This is the OPNFV Hunter release that implements the deploy stage of the OPNFV CI pipeline via Fuel.

Fuel is based on the MCP installation tool chain. More information available at Mirantis Cloud Platform Documentation.

The goal of the Hunter release and this Fuel-based deployment process is to establish a lab ready platform accelerating further development of the OPNFV infrastructure.

Carefully follow the installation instructions.

1.4. Summary

Hunter release with the Fuel deployment toolchain will establish an OPNFV target system on a Pharos compliant lab infrastructure. The current definition of an OPNFV target system is OpenStack Queens combined with an SDN controller, such as OpenDaylight. The system is deployed with OpenStack High Availability (HA) for most OpenStack services.

Fuel also supports non-HA deployments, which deploys a single controller, one gateway node and a number of compute nodes.

Fuel supports x86_64, aarch64 or mixed architecture clusters.

Furthermore, Fuel is capable of deploying scenarios in a baremetal, virtual or hybrid fashion. virtual deployments use multiple VMs on the Jump Host and internal networking to simulate the baremetal deployment.

For Hunter, the typical use of Fuel as an OpenStack installer is supplemented with OPNFV unique components such as:

As well as OPNFV-unique configurations of the Hardware and Software stack.

This Hunter artifact provides Fuel as the deployment stage tool in the OPNFV CI pipeline including:

  • Automated (Jenkins, RTD) documentation build & publish (multiple documents);
  • Automated (Jenkins) build & publish of Salt Master Docker image;
  • Automated (Jenkins) deployment of Hunter running on baremetal or a nested hypervisor environment (KVM);
  • Automated (Jenkins) validation of the Hunter deployment

1.5. Release Data

Project fuel
Repo/tag opnfv-8.1.0
Release designation Hunter 8.1
Release date June 24, 2019
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV Hunter 8.1 release

1.5.1. Version Change

1.5.1.1. Module Version Changes

This is the first tracked version of the Hunter release with the Fuel deployment toolchain. It is based on following upstream versions:

  • MCP (Q1`19 GA release)
  • OpenStack (Rocky release)
  • OpenDaylight (Fluorine release)
  • Ubuntu (16.04 release)

1.5.1.2. Document Changes

This is the Hunter 8.1 release. It comes with the following documentation:

1.5.2. Reason for Version

1.5.2.1. Feature Additions

  • multiarch cluster support;
  • hybrid cluster support;
  • PDF/IDF support for virtual PODs;
  • baremetal support for noHA deployments;
  • containerized Salt Master;
  • OVN scenarios;
  • ODL BGPVPN scenario;
  • IDF support for configuring cluster-level MTU;

1.5.2.2. Bug Corrections

For an exhaustive list, see the OPNFV Fuel JIRA: Hunter 8.1 Bugs (fixed) filter.

1.5.2.3. Software Deliverables

1.5.2.4. Documentation Deliverables

1.5.3. Scenario Matrix

  baremetal virtual hybrid
os-nosdn-nofeature-noha   x86_64  
os-nosdn-nofeature-ha x86_64, aarch64    
os-nosdn-ovs-noha   x86_64  
os-nosdn-ovs-ha x86_64, aarch64    
os-odl-nofeature-noha   x86_64  
os-odl-nofeature-ha x86_64, aarch64    
os-odl-ovs-noha   x86_64  
os-odl-ovs-ha x86_64    
os-odl-bgpvpn-noha   x86_64  
os-odl-sfc-noha   x86_64  
os-ovn-nofeature-noha   x86_64  
os-ovn-nofeature-ha aarch64    
os-nosdn-fdio-noha x86_64, aarch64    

1.6. Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

1.6.1. System Limitations

  • Max number of blades: 1 Jumpserver, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades
  • Min number of blades: 1 Jumpserver
  • Storage: Cinder is the only supported storage configuration
  • Max number of networks: 65k

1.6.2. Known Issues

None

1.6.3. Workarounds

None

1.7. Test Results

The Hunter 8.1 release with the Fuel deployment tool has undergone QA test runs, see separate test results.