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Platform/PoC/Reference Architecture Meeting Minutes

10/5/2021

Talk about goals: Define a PoC

PoC ideas:

  • Nginx already runs on BF2 (but slowly)
  • Nginx on Phantom Lake?
  • Mt Evans, Oak Springs Canyon complex, likely not MVP

Actions:

  • Set up meeting with Marvell: Octeon <- Kris
  • Talk to Intel Phantom Lake people about Diamond Bluff <- Tim

Definition of MVP:

  • OS - free
  • Free app in container: eg Squid Proxy
  • Ability to swap out container
  • Freely downloadable
  • Blog or other publishing

11/1/2021

Agenda:

  • Refresh on previous discussion
  • Follow up on card availability: Tim and Kris
    • F5 has Intel Phantom Lake cards incoming
      • Nginx dpdk support provided by vendor (Silicom?)
    • Intel Big Springs Canyon suggested, available now, Xeon, with IPDK
      • FPGA works out of the box
      • Runtime programming all open source, P4 compiler backend closed
      • ACTION: Tom to investigate hardware
      • ACTION: Tim to verify nginx dpdk support can be made available
    • Intel Mt Evans early access possible as well
      • Requires 5.10 and 5.14 for the two cores
  • Get input from new members
  • Discuss direction and next steps
    • ACTION: Steve to create github repo for PoC working group
    • OS Selection discussion
      • RHEL with dev sub for initial PoC
      • Figure out OS strategy later
  • Meeting cadence and date/time
    • Weekly Wed 1-3pm slot

11/12/2021

  • Dan: Building cluster
    • Big Springs Canyon on Broadwell with 2x25GbE
    • Mt Evans on Sapphire Rapids with 2x100GbE
    • What OS to deploy? Start with RHEL 8.5, but Red Hat to investigate OCP options.

12/1/2021

  • Introductions to Kyle Mestery and Maxime Coquelin
  • Brief review of the goals of the working group and prior discussions

12/15/2021

Merging with the dev platform group

  • OS requirements on device
    • Looked at Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS Stream, and RHEL
    • CentOS Stream 9 with help from the community sounding possible
    • CentOS SIG
  • Canceling 12/22/2021 meeting

1/5/2022

Light discussion today

  • Brief discussion about the Dell presentation, touching on SONiC and whether that applies to DB or not (not general purpose OS)
  • Kyle mentioned attempting to get IPDK environment working, will present the process next week.

1/12/2022

1/19/2022

  • CentOS SIG discussion continuation

1/26/2022

Dan Daly and Tim Worsley attended

  • Dan update on lab: all parts are in
    • Putting CentOS 8.2 on Mt Evans
    • Putting CentOS 7.x? on Big Springs Canyon
  • Tim update on PoC workload
    • Simple learning switch based on nginx
    • Pure software, no acceleration
  • How do we generate test load in the Intel lab?

For next session:

  • Expecting to not have made progress with hardware, so focus on the test
  • Create document describing scenarios, test network, traffic generation, traffic targets
  • Goal is to be able to limit test the solution, which F5 hasn’t done yet
  • Also look into open source tools or languages for describing the test, so diamond bluff doesn’t have to invent something. Example would be the open ddos (proposed) standard

2/1/2022

Attendees: Tim Worsley, Tom Rix, Mark Sanders, Steven Royer

  • Discussion on virtual development environment:
    • Similar to the ipdk virtual environment
    • Need volunteers to define and implement virtual development environment
      • Tom Rix volunteered!
    • Prefer to start with arm64
    • Start with RHEL for developer (free)
  • OS Image requirements
    • DPDK
    • docker/podman
  • App requirements
    • Looking to start with open source nginx in a container
    • Use pure CPU cores initially
    • Tim Worsley has agreed to provide this once a platform exists
  • Deliveries:
    • General agreement that DPUs aren’t build systems
    • Go into github: recipes, etc
    • Artifactory??? For container images: Prefer quay.io.

2/9/2022

Attendees: Tim Worsley, Steven Royer

  • PoC idea
    • Open source nginx with modules like modsec in a container
    • Generate data streams where at least one is “malicious”
      • Container for generating traffic
      • Container as traffic target

2/16/2022

Attendees: Kyle Mestery, Maxime Coquelin, Mark Sanders, Michal Kalderon, Laura JH, Steven Royer

  • Review
  • Michal Kalderon to look at providing access to Marvell hardware
  • Artifacts: look at integrating with github actions + github docker registry

2/23/2022

Attendees: Kyle Mestery, Maxime Coquelin, Mark Sanders, Tom Rix, Dan Daly, Steven Royer, Michal Kalderon

  • Dev environment:
    • Provide VM image with some OS (CentOS Stream 9, consider future Debian 11)
      • Tom to talk to Steve about this
  • Steve to find out if Red Hat could host some vendor hardware for Diamond Bluff
  • Michal to see if something like RH and NVIDIA can be done on Marvell hardware

3/2/2022

Attendees: Tim Worsely, Michal Kalderon, Laura JH, Steven Royer

  • Dev environment follow up: concerns around will adapter vendors support CentOS Stream 9 and Debian 11 (drivers etc…)
    • Marvell: yes, drivers are upstream
    • Intel: ??? no attendees
  • Hosting vendor hardware by Red Hat:
    • Answer is no, the plan should be to work this through the foundation when that is set up.
  • Action:
    • Tim: put up PR for current PoC plan

3/9/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Ted Streete, Michal Kalderon, Mark Sanders, Dan Daly

  • Ted leaving the subgroup to focus on other areas
  • Tim Worsely out sick
  • Kyle on vacation
  • Actions:
    • Steve: start OS discussion in slack
    • Steve: update working group description
    • Steve: migrate minutes to github
    • Dan: create document about hardware hosting requirements/options
  • Dan: hardware update
    • Big Springs Canyon and Mt Evans in place
    • Access control in place
    • Targeting two weeks for schedule

3/23/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Gene Bagwell, Shafiq Abedin, Tim Worsley, Michal Kalderon, Lionel P

  • Follow-ups:
    • Steve: Started OS discussion in slack
    • Steve: Update working group description: in progress
    • Steve: Migrate minutes to github
    • Tim: Still working on providing firewall PoC documentation
  • What's the difference between this group and the use cases group?
    • Uses cases group to define use cases
    • PoC group to implement them
  • New actions:
    • Tim to provide Dockerfiles for firewall PoC application and tests
    • Tim to publish containers to dockerhub or equivalent
    • Michal to investigate defining VM emulating DPU
    • Steve to add people to the github org for access to private repos
  • Task list to be managed via github issues in the poc repo
  • Suggestion to move to meeting every other week instead of weekly

3/30/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Venkat Pullela, Lionel P, Laura JH, Michal Kalderon, Shafiq Abedin, Mark Sanders

  • Meeting cadence
    • Moving to every other week meetings
    • Meeting April 6
  • Review

4/6/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Venkat Pullela, Shafiq Abedin, Michal Kaderon, Mark Sanders, Harry Quackenboss

  • Venkat volunteers to be involved in setting up open infrastructure, open testing that keeps high performance in mind for PoCs
  • What additional PoCs should we be thinking about?
    • Layering of function: network, storage, ai, etc implies an ordering
    • Once pure software firewall is done, look at accelerating it
    • Look into storage PoC
      • Shafiq volunteers to work on a storage PoC
  • There was a brief discussion where interest was expressed on hearing more about the IPDK container environment to use as a starting point for us
    • Ask Kyle for IPDK container presentation at next meeting
  • Reminder meetings are now every other week, next meeting is 4/20/2022

4/20/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Kyle Mestery, Mark Sanders, Dan Daly, Tim Worsley, Venkat Pullela

  • Tim shared his near term plans on the software firewall:
    • PRs for containers over the next weeks
  • Kyle shared demo of the new p4-eBPF IPDK container environment
    • IPDK P4-eBPF
    • Should be able to clone and replicate easily
    • Should be able to build a version of Tim's software firewall on top of this container environment
    • p4-DPDK is currently limited in ways that it is inconvenient to use
      • Dan to work with the team to improve this

5/4/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Venkat Pullela, Kyle Mestery, Shafiq Abedin

  • Work with Mark Sanders and the API group on basic 2 node PoC
    • Can API group build on top of the networking PoC?
  • Can still layer Tim's nginx firewall on top of existing PoC

6/15/2022

Attendees: Yuval Caduri, Venkat Pullela, Tim Worsley, Dan Daly, Steven Royer

  • Refresh and welcome to Yuval!
  • Dan brought up concerns that it's too early to invest much in PoC before the other subgroups have produced much
    • General agreements, but there is still value in laying the framework.
  • Firewall PoC
    • Tim to update existing networking PoC to include his firewall bits

6/29/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Dan Daly, Kyle Mestery, Tim Worsley, Anh Thu, Venkat Pullela

  • Talk about OS again
    • Device OS development can occur on any OS, but there needs to be a "supported" option, e.g. Red Hat
    • Hope is that applications can be developed in containers with base image of their choice. TBD on how libraries/APIs work across specific base image and device OS types.
  • New organization discussion
    • Brief discussion follow-on to main meeting topic related to expanding the role of this group to include hosting vendor code. TBD
  • Firewall
    • Tim to replace nginx in existing PoC
  • Dan: Testing discussion
    • To post slides around CI/CD: slack and github
    • Venkat to bring Keysight people to talk about test pipeline

7/13/2022

Attendees: Steven Royer, Kyle Mestery, Boris Glimcher, Timothy Worsley, Dan Daly, Renato Recio, Venkat Pullela, Anh Thu

  • Boris presented the current state of the developer platform
  • Dan to work with IPDK group for how to merge storage test
    • Need IPDK/SPDK to publish SPDK container image

7/27/2022

  • Boris presented the current state of the developer platform

8/10/2022

  • Decided to end the regularly scheduled meetings for this group. We will use github and slack (#poc-dev-platform) for further discussions.