For R3 Release, we haven't been using Kubernetes component.

For the hardware components information:

Qty.	Item	Comments
2	x86 servers running CentOS 7.5	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz / 40 cores / 2 numa / 64G memory
1	ConnectX-5 NIC (FW: 16.24.0328 and up)	-
1	BlueField 25GbE SmartNIC with Arm processor (FW: 18.24.1000 and up)	ARMv8 16 cores / single numa / 16G memory/ 25G bandwidth
1	25GB/s SFP28 networking cable	-
1	QSA28 Adapter (100GB-to-25GB Adapter)	-
1	UART-to-USB cable	For SmartNIC USB console access
1	Mini USB Type B cable	For SmartNIC USB Console Access
1	bfb image to be loaded on the BlueField SmartNIC Arm.	Image contains: CentOS 7.5 over Arm architecture MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.4-2.5.11.0 (compiled with DPDK and BlueField flags) DPDK libraries version 18.11 Pre-configured network settings for easy SmartNIC management

Software Platform Architecture

	System	Software	DPDK
Machine 1	Centos 7.5	OVS-DPDK 2.12	version 19.11
Machine 2	Centos 7.5	OVS-DPDK 2.12	version 19.11

APIs

Not Applicable

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