We seem to be forgetting that a significant fraction of our hardware comes through donated Pharos labs. I think it is important to maintain and evolve the possibility for companies to hook up labs with hardware of their choosing (within the limits of the Pharos spec) to the OPNFV federated labs infrastructure and run the OPNFV stacks on their hardware.
Particularly in the light of the increasing importance of hardware accelerators, Pharos labs have the potential to enable OPNFV to become a proving ground for integration of such hardware into the broader open source ecosystem. This is a unique capability of OPNFV that, as far as I am aware, exists nowhere else in the industry. Tim On 12/7/18 1:47 AM, Trevor Bramwell wrote: > Hi all, > > The TSC tasked the Infra-WG to create a proposal for evolving the > infrastructure of OPNFV, but given the low attendance to the Infra-WG > calls I thought it best to bring this discussion to the mailing list so > we can benefit from the wider community's experience and knowledge. > > To keep the discussion focused, I'd like to just look at Labs and how we > can evolve the infrastructure there, and I'll follow up with thoughts on > CI, code, and artifacts, after we've reached some consensus since there's a > bit more interdependence with those components along with some > complexity. I've collected some of the options here[1]. > > What we need to find (and anyone feel free to jump in if I've > misunderstood the ask) is a scalable solution for bringing up new PODs > for CI that doesn't require us hosting or purchasing more dedicated > hardware. > > Now of the top cloud providers: AWS, Google Compute, Azure, only AWS > provides a hardware-as-a-service offering[2]. The others recently > enabled nested virtualization on some instance types, which may work for > us verifying virtual deployments (with performance trade-offs > obviously), but don't help when we want to verify against networking > hardware. > > This is why I started the discussion with Packet.net. They appear to be > the only provider that not only manages hardware for you, but provides > an API for accessing and provisioning it. > > What I'd like to know is if there are other options out there for > using/paying for hardware like this? Perhaps one of the other cloud > providers (IBM, HP, etc) have a service we haven't heard of? > Or are there other ideas of how we can manage this need? > > Happy to hear any and all input! > > Regards, > Trevor Bramwell > > [1] https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/infraevolution > [2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i3/ > -- Dr.-Ing. Tim Irnich, Senior Program Manager Developer Engagement E-Mail: tim.irn...@suse.com Mobile: +49 172 2791829 SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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