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