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============================================================================================
OPNFV Release Note for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
============================================================================================

License
=======

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ..
(c) Jonas Bjurel (Ericsson AB) and others

Abstract
========

This document compiles the release notes for the Brahmaputra release of
OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool.

Important notes
===============

These notes provides release information for the use of Fuel as deployment
tool for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV.

The goal of the Brahmaputra release and this Fuel-based deployment process is
to establish a lab ready platform accelerating further development
of the OPNFV infrastructure.

Carefully follow the installation-instructions provided in *Reference 13*.

Summary
=======

For Brahmaputra, the typical use of Fuel as an OpenStack installer is
supplemented with OPNFV unique components such as:

- `OpenDaylight <http://www.opendaylight.org/software>`_ version "Berylium RC1 as"

- `ONOS <http://onosproject.org/>`_ version "Drake"

- `Service function chaining <https://wiki.opnfv.org/service_function_chaining>`_

- `SDN distributed routing and VPN <https://wiki.opnfv.org/sdnvpn>`_

- `NFV Hypervisors-KVM <https://wiki.opnfv.org/nfv-kvm>`_

- `Open vSwitch for NFV <https://wiki.opnfv.org/ovsnfv>`_

- `VSPERF <https://wiki.opnfv.org/characterize_vswitch_performance_for_telco_nfv_use_cases>`_

As well as OPNFV-unique configurations of the Hardware- and Software stack.

This Brahmaputra artifact provides Fuel as the deployment stage tool in the
OPNFV CI pipeline including:

- Documentation built by Jenkins

  - overall OPNFV documentation

  - this document (release notes)

  - installation instructions

  - build-instructions

- The Brahmaputra Fuel installer image (.iso) built by Jenkins

- Automated deployment of Brahmaputra with running on bare metal or a nested hypervisor environment (KVM)

- Automated validation of the Brahmaputra deployment


Release Data
============

+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| **Project**                          | fuel                                 |
|                                      |                                      |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| **Repo/tag**                         | brahmaputra.1.0                      |
|                                      |                                      |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| **Release designation**              | Brahmaputra base release             |
|                                      |                                      |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| **Release date**                     | February 25 2016                     |
|                                      |                                      |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| **Purpose of the delivery**          | Brahmaputra base release             |
|                                      |                                      |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+

Version change
--------------

Module version changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the second tracked release of genesis/fuel. It is based on
following upstream versions:

- Fuel 8.0 pre-release

- OpenStack Liberty release

- OpenDaylight Beryllium release

- ONOS Drake release

Document changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the third tracked version of the fuel installer for OPNFV. It
comes with the following documentation:

- Installation instructions - *Reference 13* - **Changed**

- Build instructions - *Reference 14* - **Changed**

- Release notes - *Reference 15* - **Changed** (This document)

Reason for version
------------------

Feature additions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**JIRA TICKETS:**

`New features <https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11002>`_ 'https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11002'

Bug corrections
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**JIRA TICKETS:**

`Bug-fixes <https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/FUEL-99?filter=11001>`_ 'https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/FUEL-99?filter=11001'

Deliverables
------------

Software deliverables
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fuel-based installer iso file found in *Reference 2*

Documentation deliverables
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Installation instructions - *Reference 13*

- Build instructions - *Reference 14*

- Release notes - *Reference 15* (This document)

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
=========================================

System Limitations
------------------

- **Max number of blades:** 1 Fuel master, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades

- **Min number of blades:** 1 Fuel master, 1 Controller, 1 Compute blade

- **Storage:** Ceph is the only supported storage configuration

- **Max number of networks:** 65k


Known issues
------------

**JIRA TICKETS:**

`Known issues <https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11000>`_ 'https://jira.opnfv.org/issues/?filter=11000'

Workarounds
-----------



Test results
============
The Brahmaputra release with the Fuel deployment tool has undergone QA test
runs, see separate test results.

References
==========
For more information on the OPNFV Brahmaputra release, please see:

OPNFV
-----

1) `OPNFV Home Page <www.opnfv.org>`_

2) `OPNFV documentation- and software downloads <https://www.opnfv.org/software/download>`_

OpenStack
---------

3) `OpenStack Liberty Release artifacts <http://www.openstack.org/software/liberty>`_

4) `OpenStack documentation <http://docs.openstack.org>`_

OpenDaylight
------------

5) `OpenDaylight artifacts <http://www.opendaylight.org/software/downloads>`_

Fuel
----

6) `The Fuel OpenStack project <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel>`_

7) `Fuel documentation overview <https://docs.fuel-infra.org/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/#guides>`_

8) `Fuel planning guide <https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/planning-guide.html>`_

9) `Fuel user guide <http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/user-guide.html>`_

10) `Fuel operations guide <http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/operations.html>`_

11) `Fuel Plugin Developers Guide <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel/Plugins>`_

12) `Fuel OpenStack Hardware Compatibility List <https://www.mirantis.com/products/openstack-drivers-and-plugins/hardware-compatibility-list>`_

Fuel in OPNFV
-------------

13) OPNFV Installation instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool

14) OPNFV Build instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool

15) OPNFV Release Note for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool