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OpenStack Rocky support

• Now support AI correlation/anomaly analysis and failure prediction on Bottlenecks sample results
• The stable version of the testing scheduler of Bottlenecks now supports monitoring while testing

• It is easier for a user to analyze historical testing results using state-of-art AI analyzing methods and predict failures for next runs of tests
• The SUT behavior has been virtualized during testing orchestration which will help users to identify mal-functional components.

• Enhance katacontainer, it can support multus-CNI

• Provide the security container for Edge and CNF

• Enhanced fault management. Notification to trigger alarm straight from Inspector is 27x faster than through Nova reset server state API.
• Rolling infrastructure maintenance use case now utilize the upstream Fenix implementation.

• Now a capability to have an alarm from infrastructure fault fast enough to Telco VNF
• Generic rolling infrastructure maintenance and upgrade now possible with zero impact to VNF on top.

• documents output:
  • edge openstack test cases
  • description for typical edge testing environment (lightweight and multi-cloud)

• generate some useful use cases and functional requirements in telco edge cloud practice

• OpenStack Rocky
• Various minor fixes and improvements

• OpenStack tuning (nova/neutron intervals, meltdown/spectre control, DPDK configuration etc.);
• containerized MaaS for baremetal deployments;
• simplified and ensured persistence across reboot for jumpserver resources (Docker containers, networks etc.);
• minor usability improvements (e.g. warn about unsupported nested virtualization on Ubuntu kernel 4.4);

• update testcases and containers to OpenStack Rocky and to Kubernetes v1.13.5
• add rally_full in Installer daily jobs (including the virtual deployments)
• harden the VNF testcases and decrease their requirements (e.g. image size)
• reorder the testcases to run them in parallel
• publish new Ansible playbooks to easily deploy the OPNFV CI/CD toolchain
• port Functest on Raspberry PI

• verify all patches before merge via functional gates
• publish Functest containers right after the official upstream releases (e.g. Functest Iruya)

• the enduser can easily deploy its own Functest toolchains in few commands
• Functest can verify VIM in production even on Raspberry PI
• all testcases can run in parallel (tested with 5 executors in our gates)
• everyone can pick stable Functest rolling releases (iruya and latest included)

Bridged Overlay IPv6 gaps in ODL Fluorine Release:

• Support for advertising MTU info in IPv6 RAs
• IPv6 external connectivity for FLAT/VLAN based provider networks

Explored use of IPv6 in container networking:

• Experimented Flannel using IPv6
• Experimented Calico using IPv6

Feature improvement:

• Now we can support the MTU Option as part of Solicited/Un-solicited Router Advertisements
• Now we can support the IPv6 North-South end-to-end use cases

• can now measure the dataplane performance for VxLAN based OpenStack deployments
• upgrade to TRex v2.56
• allow list of arbitrary network names for EXT chains
• support segmentation_id auto-indexing for multi-chaining
• add option to restart TRex server in case of config change
• add TRex parameters to tune performance and allocate resources
• nfvbench can now run with non-admin credentials
• many bug fixes and code enhancements (debt reduction)

9. N/A (Per  Alexandre Levine <alevine@juniper.net>, the project ended up on being hold.)

Several enhancements / fixes to the Lab as a Service 2.0 Dashboard:

• Dynamic POD allocation - PTL's can book a "POD" instead of a single server
• automated virtual deployments of OPNFV

• Define the vEPC GTP function offloading process
• Define the interface of the vEPC GTP function offloading process

• analyze the vEPC GTP function is suitable to offload to hardware  and and how
• explore how to offload the GTP function with common GTP function offloading interface

• Added Improved image building & new PROX
• Added Fix for PROX generator latency
• Added Fix for minimum latency since reset
• Added PROX generator: performance optimization
• Added Use link speed from device capability instead of negotiated speed
• Added use case "Forwarding Rate At Maximum Offered Load""
• Added check for configuration error (not enough mbuf)"
• Use link speed from device capability instead of negotiated speeda

Several enhancement added to PROX to enable better NFVi characterization.

Added usecase for forwarding rate at max offered load

Optimized PROX generator performance.

• Move to openSDK to use openstack
• Complete our refactoring with two chain testcase
• General maintenance

• Move to openSDK to use openstack
• Complete our refactoring with two chain testcase
• General maintenance

• Closer to what openstack uses for its tests and thus we are more predictable
• Better coverage with our tests

• Live-results from traffic-generators - T-Rex and Spirent-STC.  Create Per-second results during test runs.
• Collect additional metrics - OVS dpdk core mapping, IRQ-Latency, Logs - during the test run.
• Integration of PROX's IRQ latency measurement.
• Organization of logs and results to support automation of analysis.
• Imix Support for STC.
• Affinitization of VM threads.

• Support for causation analysis.
• Ready for containerization.
• New Testcases - Cross-Numa.
• Additional tools support.
• Support for TST-009 specification

• Add TRex Baremetal/SA scale up test cases
• Add possibility to distribute DPDK/vhost-user ports/queues between CPU cores
• Adding scale up test case for l3fwd OvS-DPDK.
• Add Testcase Prox Standalone SRIOV
• Add vBNG PPPoE test cases functionality
• Add IXIA Baremetal scale up testcases
• Add vIPSEC testcases
• Add TRex Baremetal/SA scale up test cases
• Add OpenStack test cases with different framesize and IMIX
• Add new scenario NSPerf-RFC3511
• Add VPP traffic profiles for TRex traffic generator
• Add Trex traffic generator to initate Traffic for VPP IPSEC
• Add IxNextgen API for setting IP priority, flow tracking options, creating BGP protocol layer
• Add Pktgen traffic generator for vCMTS
• Add Trex traffic generator to initate Traffic for VPP IPSEC
• Add sipp trafficgen based SampleVNFTrafficGen
• Add ansible scripts to deploy Kubernetes
• Update NSB report to use Barometer metrics
• Support using existing private key when using external heat template file

Several traffic generators(e.g. Trex, Pktgen, IxNextgen) are enhanced and can be more useful. Also new test cases are added in Yardstick/NSB.

Now Yardstick ansible script supports kubernetes deployment.

NSB report is optimized to enhance user usability.