| .. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Open Networking Foundation <info@opennetworking.org> |
| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 |
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| SD-Fabric 1.1 |
| ============= |
| |
| After one year of incubation under the ONF's member-only license, |
| we are excited to present the first `open-source release of SD-Fabric under the Apache 2.0 license |
| <https://opennetworking.org/news-and-events/press-releases/onfs-leading-private-5g-connected-edge-platform-aether-now-released-to-open-source/>`_ |
| |
| SD-Fabric 1.1 comes with numerous new features and improvements. |
| The main focus for this release is full integration with Aether, |
| ONF’s private-5G edge connectivity solution for enterprises. |
| SD-Fabric brings the many benefits of network programmability to Aether, |
| from a hardware-accelerated highly-available P4-UPF, to fabric-wide slicing and QoS, |
| and per-packet visibility via Inband-Network Telemetry (INT). |
| |
| In this release, we provide two UPF options: the switch-based P4-UPF, offering the highest performance; |
| and the CPU-based BESS-UPF, tailored for deployment flexibility and horizontal scalability. |
| Both UPFs come with numerous bug fixes as well as integration with Aether 2.0 features, |
| such as support for 5G base stations, application filtering, QoS via multi-level rate-limiting, |
| and enhanced visibility with per-flow metrics and INT integration. |
| |
| Moreover, we provide many operational improvements such as better support for |
| enterprise networks, simplified configuration, improved stability, and reduced resource usage. |
| |
| We hope the transition to open source will catalyze the adoption of SD-Fabric and |
| attract more users and contributors from the community. |
| Please visit the :ref:`SD-Fabric documentation website <index>` to learn more about |
| all the features SD-Fabric offers and how to get started. |
| |
| Feature Highlights |
| ------------------ |
| |
| Open Source Release |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| All SD-Fabric components are now completely open source under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| We have published all source code, docker images, helm charts, documentation, and mailing lists. |
| |
| Aether Integration |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| This release provides the following integrations with Aether 2.0: |
| |
| - **4G/5G slice based on P4-UPF**: |
| which can now be instantiated using the Aether management portal or APIs. |
| In this release, we support creating only one P4-UPF slice, |
| creation of more P4-UPF slices will come in future releases. |
| As before, more than one slice can be created when using BESS-UPF. |
| - **Initial INT integration**: |
| this release adds di-metrics-exporter, |
| a new service which fetches and aggregates real-time INT-based metrics and anomalies |
| from Intel\ |reg| DeepInsight |tm|, |
| to produce per-UE health status reports to be consumed by the Aether Analytics Engine (work-in-progress). |
| SD-fabric supports monitoring of UE traffic when using both P4-UPF and BESS-UPF. |
| |
| P4-UPF |
| ^^^^^^ |
| This release aims at bringing feature parity with BESS-UPF. To this end, P4-UPF now supports |
| the following new features: |
| |
| - **Application filtering**: |
| where the UPF can drop or forward traffic based on application endpoints |
| (IPv4 prefix and port range) configured using PFCP SDF filters received from SD-Core. |
| We support all ROC policies: ALLOW-ALL, DENY-ALL, ALLOW-PUBLIC. |
| - **Multi-level rate-limiting**: |
| where traffic can be policed at the application level, UE level, or slice level. |
| Per-application and per-UE rate limits can be configured by means of PFCP QERs received from SD-Core. |
| |
| BESS-UPF |
| ^^^^^^^^ |
| - **Port ranges in app filtering rules**: |
| BESS-UPF now supports installing PDRs with SDF filters |
| matching on more than one transport-layer port. |
| - **Arbitrary IPv4 prefix lengths in app filtering rules**: |
| including Aether's **allow-public** rule set (which blocks traffic to RFC 1918 private subnets). |
| - **Per-flow metrics (experimental)**: |
| when enabled, the BESS pipeline collects metrics such as throughput, latency, jitter, and packet loss. |
| Metrics are collected for each PFCP PDR rule, |
| allowing performance monitoring for multiple application flows for the same UE. |
| Metrics can be exported via the Prometheus endpoint in PFCP-Agent. |
| |
| Slicing & QoS |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| We continue to make slicing and QoS more configurable to adapt to different use cases. |
| |
| - **ONOS now reads slicing parameters via netcfg**: |
| to support static configuration of arbitrary slices and traffic classes. |
| - **Updated config generation scripts**: |
| to automatically generate both Stratum chassis_config and ONOS netcfg file using high-level parameters. |
| |
| Operations |
| ^^^^^^^^^^ |
| Numerous improvements to make it easier to deploy and operate SD-Fabric. |
| |
| - **Support for P4Runtime port translation**: |
| which allows hiding ASIC-specific internal port numbers from user-facing configuration files. |
| Now, when configuring switch interfaces in both the ONOS netcfg and Stratum chassis config, |
| users can specify front panel port/channel numbers instead of SDK port numbers. |
| - **Remove the management server from the data plane**: |
| user traffic is now processed by P4-UPF or BESS-UPF and then |
| forwarded upstream (or to edge-applications) directly by the fabric switches. |
| - **Support base stations behind L3-routed network**: |
| supporting real-world enterprise deployments. |
| - **Improve support for paired-leaves topology and distributed UPF**: |
| by enabling phased-recovery by default to ensure |
| traffic is not sent to a recovering switch until it is fully programmed, avoiding unnecessary packet drops. |
| |
| Bug fixes and other improvements |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| - Made primary controller election in ONOS persistent during device and cluster events, |
| ensuring flow/group operations to always be successful. |
| - Improved the UP4's distributed UPF replication protocol, |
| fixing a known issue that was causing missing or stale flows in some switches. |
| - Implemented a reconciliation mechanisms in the ONOS device manager to |
| facilitate recovery from network partition scenarios |
| - Fixed wrong flow handling during network partition scenarios |
| - Enabled ZGC garbage collector in ONOS to reduce garbage collector pauses and their effects on the cluster. |
| - Upgraded Atomix to 3.1.12 and Karaf to 4.2.14 |
| |
| Testing |
| ^^^^^^^ |
| - Built a new Go-based integration test infrastructure for PFCP-Agent, |
| including ``pfcpsim``, a CLI-based tool to emulate SMF interactions in tests. |
| The new infrastructure allows testing PFCP-Agent interaction for both P4-UPF and BESS-UPF. |
| - Nightly SD-Fabric integration tests now include PFCP-Agent |
| - Added new nightly test cases for new P4-UPF features and persistent controller election |
| |
| Development |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| - Created a v1model version of the fabric-tna P4 program. |
| The new P4 program allows sharing the same pipeconf and PTF tests as the TNA version of the program, |
| facilitating development and testing in bmv2-based emulated environments. |
| |
| Upgrade Notes |
| ------------- |
| If you are upgrading from SD-Fabric 1.0, there are several substantial changes that require additional attention. |
| |
| **ONOS netcfg** |
| |
| - We renamed all pipeconf names and replaced ``spgw`` with ``upf`` |
| (e.g., ``fabric-spgw-int`` is now named ``fabric-upf-int``) |
| - We bumped the supported Intel\ |reg| P4 Studio SDE from ``9_5_0`` to ``9_7_0`` |
| - S1U/N3 address and UE pool configuration for the UP4 app is no longer necessary. |
| Please use the PFCP-Agent ``upf.json`` or helm values to specify them. |
| - When using 5G base stations, make sure to set the ``pscEncapEnabled`` flag to true in the UP4's netcfg |
| - Because of P4Runtime translation, |
| all port numbers in the ONOS netcfg should match the **singleton port id** used in the Stratum chassis config |
| (instead of the ASIC-specific P4 port number). |
| - See :ref:`ONOS Network Config <onos_network_config>` for more details |
| |
| **PFCP agent** |
| |
| - We made UE pool configuration in the PFCP Agent mandatory. |
| Make sure to configure ``ue_ip_pool``, under the ``cpiface`` group, in the ``upf.json`` file (or Helm values). |
| - Access IP configuration parameter is now mandatory. |
| Make sure to configure ``access_ip`` in the ``upf.json`` file (or Helm values). |
| - ``p4rtciface.ue_ip_pool`` has been removed. Use ``cpiface.ue_ip_pool`` instead. |
| - Introduced ``slice_id`` field. It defaults to 0 if not specified. |
| - See :ref:`PFCP agent config <pfcp_agent_config>` for more details |
| |
| **Stratum chassis config** |
| |
| - Since the Stratum's singleton port ID can now be used in the ONOS netcfg for all port numbers |
| (thanks to P4Runtime translation), we recommend using the following easy-to-understand convention: |
| |
| - For unchannelized ports: use the same front panel port number, |
| e.g., for port “9/0” use singleton port ID “9” |
| - For channelized ports: use the formula “port number x 100 + channel”, |
| e.g., when configuring channels 9/0, 9/1, 9/2, and 9/3, |
| the corresponding singleton port IDs should be 900, 901, 902, and 903 |
| - See `Stratum port number <https://github.com/stratum/stratum/blob/main/stratum/hal/bin/barefoot/README.run.md#user-content-port-numbers>`_ for more details |
| |
| **Docker image** |
| |
| - All our docker images are now hosted on DockerHub. |
| Remember to update image registry, repo and tag if you were pulling images from the Aether Registry previously |
| - We renamed the ``tost`` image to ``sdfabric-onos`` |
| |
| **Helm value** |
| |
| - ``logging.karafVersion`` should be updated from ``4.2.9`` to ``4.2.14`` |
| |
| |
| Known Issues and Limitations |
| ---------------------------- |
| - Some INT collectors might not support topologies with dual-homed hosts. |
| - In P4-UPF, configuration of slice rate limits is currently not exposed to Aether. |
| We plan to add this in the next minor release (SD-Fabric v1.1.1). |
| - In P4-UPF, we currently don't support exporting per-port or per-flow metrics |
| via Prometheus. As a consequence, when using the Aether monitoring dashboard, |
| the corresponding graphs will not be populated. We plan to add this in the |
| next major release (SD-Fabric v1.2) |
| - In BESS-UPF, when using application filtering with port ranges, we don't |
| support ranges wider than 100 ports. Please create more application filtering |
| rules to cover the desired range. |
| |
| Component Versions |
| ------------------ |
| |
| SD-Fabric ONOS |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| - Image |
| |
| - `opennetworking/sdfabric-onos <https://hub.docker.com/r/opennetworking/sdfabric-onos>`_: ``1.1.0`` |
| |
| - Source code |
| |
| - `onos <https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/onos>`_: ``2.5.7-rc2`` |
| - `trellis-control <https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/trellis-control>`_: ``3.2.0`` |
| - `fabric-tna <https://github.com/stratum/fabric-tna>`_: ``1.1.0`` |
| - `up4 <https://github.com/omec-project/up4>`_: ``1.1.0`` |
| |
| Stratum |
| ^^^^^^^ |
| - Image: `stratumproject/stratum-bfrt <https://hub.docker.com/r/stratumproject/stratum-bfrt>`_: ``22.03.01-9.7.0`` |
| - Repo: `stratum <https://github.com/stratum/stratum>`_: ``29f391580de8d5ee2d7a207a9a4261fda4e54a6f`` |
| |
| DBUF |
| ^^^^ |
| - Image: `opennetworking/dbuf <https://hub.docker.com/r/opennetworking/dbuf>`_: ``1.0.0`` |
| - Repo: `dbuf <https://github.com/omec-project/dbuf>`_: ``v1.0.0`` |
| |
| PFCP Agent |
| ^^^^^^^^^^ |
| - Image: `omecproject/upf-epc-pfcpiface <https://hub.docker.com/r/omecproject/upf-epc-pfcpiface>`_ |
| |
| - For P4-UPF: ``master-3e29b49`` |
| - For BESS-UPF: ``master-9a4d86c`` |
| |
| - Repo: `upf <https://github.com/omec-project/upf>`_ |
| |
| - For P4-UPF: ``3e29b49e96e39e0ba7bf4190a8b0d0aa9413b08d`` |
| - For BESS-UPF: ``9a4d86c654a9f60947ebf71d015d4781ed7a95a6`` |
| |
| BESS UPF |
| ^^^^^^^^ |
| - Image: `omecproject/upf-epc-bess <https://github.com/omec-project/upf>`_: ``master-9a4d86c`` |
| - Repo: `upf <https://github.com/omec-project/upf>`_: ``9a4d86c654a9f60947ebf71d015d4781ed7a95a6`` |
| |
| Helm Chart Versions |
| ------------------- |
| - `sdfabric <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/sdfabric>`_: ``1.1.0`` |
| |
| - `onos-classic chart <https://github.com/onosproject/onos-helm-charts/tree/master/onos-classic>`_: ``0.1.28`` |
| - `stratum chart <https://github.com/stratum/stratum-helm-charts/tree/master/stratum>`_: ``0.1.18`` |
| - `pfcp-agent chart <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/pfcp-agent>`_: ``0.0.13`` |
| - `dbuf chart <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/dbuf/>`_: ``0.0.4`` |
| - `int-host-reporter chart <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/int-host-reporter>`_: ``0.0.4`` |
| - `di-topology-watchdog chart <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/di-topology-watchdog>`_: ``0.0.5`` |
| - `di-metrics-exporter chart <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/di-metrics-exporter>`_: ``0.0.3`` |
| |
| - `bess-upf chart <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/sdfabric-helm-charts/+/refs/heads/master/bess-upf>`_: ``0.0.5`` |
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| Patches |
| ------- |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
| :glob: |
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| 1.1.1 |
| 1.1.2 |
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