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The Provider Access Edge blueprint aims to provide a platform for running NFV (e.g. vRAN, vBNG, SEBA) and MEC (e.g. MobileEdgeX) workloads on a small footprint, self-managing Kubernetes-on-bare metal cluster. The release 1 4 blueprint supports managing a whole edge stack only using Kubernetes resource configs (manifests). Edge stacks created with this blueprint can run both containerised and VM-based workloads (via KubeVirt) on a common platform. Release 1 4 also includes multi-network support (via Multus). Applications on top of this platform are managed via the Operator Framework.
In Release 34, we worked on adding new platforms (GCP and virtual baremetal), plus upgrading the existing components and stabilizing the platform, plus replacing the old CentOS RT worker nodes by the native support of CoreOS, the base operating system for our Kubernetes distribution: OpenShift.
What is Released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
Helper tool simplifying CI/CD based blueprint deployments into AWS, libvirtGCP, and bare metal (or virtual bare metal) using the upstream OpenShift Kubernetes Distro (OKD): https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/kni/installer
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Dependencies of the release (upstream version, patches)
- OKD v4.3 5 GA
- CRI-O: v1.18
- KubeVirt v0.27.2
- Ceph 14.2.8 (2d095e947a02261ce61424021bb43bd3022d35cb) nautilus (stable)
- Multus-cni: version:v4.3.3-202002171705, commit:d406b4470f58367df1dd79b47e6263582b8fb511
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Release Data
Enhancements
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Functionality changes fo Release
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4
- Replaced CentOS-RT worker nodes by native RT kernel support from CoreOS.Replaced libvirt provider option with virtual baremetal
New Features for Release
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4
- Addition of GCP (Google Cloud)Stabilization of the whole platform
Version change
34.0.0
Module version changes
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| 0.1 | 30-May-2019 | KNI Blueprint Team | First Draft |
| 1.0 | 15-Nov-2019 | KNI Blueprint Team | Corrected version |
| 2.0 | 25-Nov-2019 | KNI Blueprint PAE team | Release 2 version |
| 3.0 | 24-Apr-2020 | KNI Blueprint PAE Team | Release 3 version |
| 4.0 | 17-Dec-2020 | KNI Blueprint PAE Team | Release 4 version |
Deliverable
Software Deliverable
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Fixed Issues and Bugs
N/A
Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
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