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2 OPNFV Release Note for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
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4
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8 License
9 =======
10
11 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
12 License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ..
13 (c) Jonas Bjurel (Ericsson AB) and others
14
15 Abstract
16 ========
17
18 This document compiles the release notes for the Brahmaputra release of
19 OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool.
20
21 Important notes
22 ===============
23
24 These notes provides release information for the use of Fuel as deployment
25 tool for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV.
26
27 The goal of the Brahmaputra release and this Fuel-based deployment process is
28 to establish a lab ready platform accelerating further development
29 of the OPNFV infrastructure.
30
31 Carefully follow the installation-instructions provided in *Reference 13*.
32
33 Summary
34 =======
35
36 For Brahmaputra, the typical use of Fuel as an OpenStack installer is
37 supplemented with OPNFV unique components such as:
38
39 - `OpenDaylight <http://www.opendaylight.org/software>`_ version "Berylium RC1 as"
40
41 - `ONOS <http://onosproject.org/>`_ version "Drake"
42
43 - `Service function chaining <https://wiki.opnfv.org/service_function_chaining>`_
44
45 - `SDN distributed routing and VPN <https://wiki.opnfv.org/sdnvpn>`_
46
47 - `NFV Hypervisors-KVM <https://wiki.opnfv.org/nfv-kvm>`_
48
49 - `Open vSwitch for NFV <https://wiki.opnfv.org/ovsnfv>`_
50
51 - `VSPERF <https://wiki.opnfv.org/characterize_vswitch_performance_for_telco_nfv_use_cases>`_
52
53 As well as OPNFV-unique configurations of the Hardware- and Software stack.
54
55 This Brahmaputra artifact provides Fuel as the deployment stage tool in the
56 OPNFV CI pipeline including:
57
58 - Documentation built by Jenkins
59
60   - overall OPNFV documentation
61
62   - this document (release notes)
63
64   - installation instructions
65
66   - build-instructions
67
68 - The Brahmaputra Fuel installer image (.iso) built by Jenkins
69
70 - Automated deployment of Brahmaputra with running on bare metal or a nested hypervisor environment (KVM)
71
72 - Automated validation of the Brahmaputra deployment
73
74
75 Release Data
76 ============
77
78 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
79 | **Project**                          | fuel                                 |
80 |                                      |                                      |
81 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
82 | **Repo/tag**                         | brahmaputra.1.0                      |
83 |                                      |                                      |
84 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
85 | **Release designation**              | Brahmaputra base release             |
86 |                                      |                                      |
87 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
88 | **Release date**                     | February 25 2016                     |
89 |                                      |                                      |
90 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
91 | **Purpose of the delivery**          | Brahmaputra base release             |
92 |                                      |                                      |
93 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
94
95 Version change
96 --------------
97
98 Module version changes
99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
100 This is the second tracked release of genesis/fuel. It is based on
101 following upstream versions:
102
103 - Fuel 8.0 pre-release
104
105 - OpenStack Liberty release
106
107 - OpenDaylight Beryllium release
108
109 - ONOS Drake release
110
111 Document changes
112 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
113 This is the third tracked version of the fuel installer for OPNFV. It
114 comes with the following documentation:
115
116 - Installation instructions - *Reference 13* - **Changed**
117
118 - Build instructions - *Reference 14* - **Changed**
119
120 - Release notes - *Reference 15* - **Changed** (This document)
121
122 Reason for version
123 ------------------
124 Feature additions
125 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
126
127 **JIRA TICKETS:**
128
129 `New features <https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11002>`_ 'https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11002'
130
131 Bug corrections
132 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
133
134 **JIRA TICKETS:**
135
136 `Bug-fixes <https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/FUEL-99?filter=11001>`_ 'https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/FUEL-99?filter=11001'
137
138 Deliverables
139 ------------
140
141 Software deliverables
142 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
143
144 Fuel-based installer iso file found in *Reference 2*
145
146 Documentation deliverables
147 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
148
149 - Installation instructions - *Reference 13*
150
151 - Build instructions - *Reference 14*
152
153 - Release notes - *Reference 15* (This document)
154
155 Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
156 =========================================
157
158 System Limitations
159 ------------------
160
161 - **Max number of blades:** 1 Fuel master, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades
162
163 - **Min number of blades:** 1 Fuel master, 1 Controller, 1 Compute blade
164
165 - **Storage:** Ceph is the only supported storage configuration
166
167 - **Max number of networks:** 65k
168
169
170 Known issues
171 ------------
172
173 **JIRA TICKETS:**
174
175 `Known issues <https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11000>`_ 'https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11000'
176
177 Workarounds
178 -----------
179
180
181
182 Test results
183 ============
184 The Brahmaputra release with the Fuel deployment tool has undergone QA test
185 runs, see separate test results.
186
187 References
188 ==========
189 For more information on the OPNFV Brahmaputra release, please see:
190
191 OPNFV
192 -----
193
194 1) `OPNFV Home Page <www.opnfv.org>`_
195
196 2) `OPNFV documentation- and software downloads <https://www.opnfv.org/software/download>`_
197
198 OpenStack
199 ---------
200
201 3) `OpenStack Liberty Release artifacts <http://www.openstack.org/software/liberty>`_
202
203 4) `OpenStack documentation <http://docs.openstack.org>`_
204
205 OpenDaylight
206 ------------
207
208 5) `OpenDaylight artifacts <http://www.opendaylight.org/software/downloads>`_
209
210 Fuel
211 ----
212
213 6) `The Fuel OpenStack project <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel>`_
214
215 7) `Fuel documentation overview <https://docs.fuel-infra.org/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/#guides>`_
216
217 8) `Fuel planning guide <https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/planning-guide.html>`_
218
219 9) `Fuel user guide <http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/user-guide.html>`_
220
221 10) `Fuel operations guide <http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/operations.html>`_
222
223 11) `Fuel Plugin Developers Guide <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel/Plugins>`_
224
225 12) `Fuel OpenStack Hardware Compatibility List <https://www.mirantis.com/products/openstack-drivers-and-plugins/hardware-compatibility-list>`_
226
227 Fuel in OPNFV
228 -------------
229
230 13) OPNFV Installation instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
231
232 14) OPNFV Build instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
233
234 15) OPNFV Release Note for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool