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05 Jan 2021 

Attendees (TSC)

1. Al Morton (AT&T)
2. Beth Cohen (Verizon)
3. Cedric Ollivier
4. Emma Foley (Red Hat)
5. Frank Brockners (Cisco)
6. Fu Qiao (China Mobile)
7. Georg Kunz (Ericsson)
8. Gergely Csatari (Nokia)
9. Lincoln Lavoie  (UNH-IOL)
10. Mark Beierl  (Canonical)
11. Tom Kivlin (Vodafone) 
12. Trevor Cooper (Intel)
13. Walter Kozlowski (Telstra)

...

1. Pankaj Goyal (AT&T)
2. Karine Sevilla (Orange)
3. Heather Kirksey
4. Jim Baker
5. Luc Provoost
6. Ulrich Kleber
7. Ildiko Vancsa (OpenInfra Foundation)
8. Scot Steele (AT&T)
9. James Gu
10. Toshiyasu Wakayama (KDDI)

Absent (TSC)

• Ahmed El-Sawaf
• Sridar Rao

Agenda

Minutes

Meeting Administration

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• Functest OpenStack now allows testing L2 network-only (see Airship)
• Functest master is continously developped/tested vs OpenStack Wallaby (Ildiko Vancsa )
• Checking mandatory Kuberenetes sig-network and sig-storage features in RC2 to develop new Functest test cases
• Lots of changes in XtestingCI  (future Weekly Technical meetings to discuss the changes)
  • support of Gitlab CI/CD (deployment and configuration)
  • leverage Kubernetes to deploy the services (locally or remotely)
  • artifact management
  • etc.

Airship Installer

• RI-2 working with UNH lab team for AIRSHIP 2.0 POD (two phased approach)
• ODIM team integration is planned as well
•  
• in 2021
• RI-1L have been working with functest on OVS OS DPDK - focused testing, L2 only
• Upgrade to Train release is also in the 2021 pipeline, along with other upstream Airship fixes for CNTT conformance
• Pod 17 HD failure  - INFRA ticket: https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/INFRA-467?filter=-2

SampleVNF

• Naming & Scope: only one VNF maintained: PROX

• ETSI NFV TST009 benchmarking

• Add test cases for more coverage (imix sizes, flows, ….)

• Make sure the tests are being used in RC

FastDataStacks (FDS)

• NFVI solution stacks that include FD.io/VPP 
• Focus of the recent releases was networking-vpp (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Networking-vpp) testing 
• Upstream FD.io networking-vpp 20.09 was not released in time for the JERMA release (→ VRRP, VXLAN-GPE), candcandidate for the next release.

Releng

• Rolling out new build servers (x86) on LaaS machine
  • Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7
• Investigating pip fixes
• Call for packages, OS, build dependencies/requirements
• Coordinating LF-POD4/5 Portland lab migration to OSUOSL

Kuberef

• RI-2 implementation project
• first release based on Intel BMRA Kubernetes deployer
• deployments running in Anuket labs (Intel + Ericsson) as well as on Equinox Metal (formerly Packet.net)
• deployments compliant to current RC-2 (extend for DPDK tests, but also need to discuss architecture, input from RA2)
• plans: uplift of BMRA, enabling additional telco features

Mailing list discussion

• Jim provides background
• Plan is to deprecate all current mailing lists by 15 Jan 2021, a tombstone message will continue.
• An Orthogonal topic is the SPAM reduction and processing associated with list moderation (a large effort today)
• Discussion on anuket-TSC mailing list for now.
• Weekly Tech discussion??  need to schedule  - previously scheduled meetings are possibilities!

Elbrus Release

• don't break anything! w.r.t tools right now! dates were reviewed.

Operation of Workstreams/projects within Anuket

• at this time, continue as-is. there are opportunites to work together-better we will explore in the future.

TSC meeting time/duration

• will continue as scheduled for now, using 90-minutes for several weeks as we get started (we needed more than 90 today)

Reminder of the Virtual Technical Event

• Feb 1-4

Action Items

•  List of all meetings in ANUKET (CNTT had one) Jim Baker
  
•  Decisions on email list structure and change-over - Weekly Tech discussion??
•    Releng: look into K8s deployment as well (Xtesting CI)