2019-05-23 Meeting notes

Date

23 May 2019

Attendees

• Randy Bias
• Sukhdev Kapur
• Daniel Pono Takamori
• VM (Vicky) Brasseur (she/her)
• Casey Cain
• Darien Hirotsu
• Prabhjot Singh Sethi
• Ian Rae
• Rudra Dubey
• Edward Ting 
• Valentin Sinitsyn
• Will Stevens
• Marc Rapoport
• Joseph Gasparakis
• Savannah

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Antitrust Policy
• Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)
• 5.1 Release (Pono)
• vRouter performance learnings (Joseph)
• Networking Service Mesh collaboration with Tungsten Fabric (Sukhdev)
• CLA update
  • https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/display/DOCS/Contributor+License+Agreement+User+Guide
• What to do about the ARB? (Randy - TABLE THIS WEEK)
• General Topics
  • TC call?
• NCDC Agenda, Speakers, Workshop or Tutorial, Marketing announcement (Edward)

Minutes

• Action items
  • Edward Ting will share gerrit patch list to the team today
  • Darien Hirotsu  will coordinate with Jill on the release announcement
  • Randy Bias still coordinating with Juniper team about NCDC content, more news by next week
  • Several still pending
• 5.1 release
  • Still working to get folks together to figure out how to rebuild the code, removing Contrail stuff
  • No ETA yet (because there's no scope yet)
  • Will we be tagging the release?
    • Don't have a TF repo, so could we even tag a Juniper repo?
    • SK asked internally for it to be tagged, so it may already be → No, 5.1 is not yet tagged
      • https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-controller/releases
      • https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-vnc
• vRouter performance
  • Document to help newcomers to build vRouter on their own and then pass traffic to it
    • Isolated vRouter setup and testing.docx
    • Perf analysis of vRouter not yet included in the published doc
  • Have enough information to start doing some optimizations, removing the bottlenecks that have been spotted
  • Can cover technical details in the TC call
  • PS: Is this related to vsperf? (in OPNFV)
    • Yes and no: vsperf will give us an apples to apples comparison with other data planes, but we (TF) will need to make optimizations
    • Are we interested in getting into vsperf?
    • RLB: Interested, but may be a resource issue
    • PS: OPNFV can do most of it, if they can get docs on how to do setup (this doc may do the trick), PS offers to help them
    • JG: Already spoke with Sridhar Rao from Spirent, tech lead of vsperf. Integration is ongoing.
  • SK: How does this perf compare to ovs?
    • vsperf will run identical tests on ovs
    • Don't seem to have the data yet for comparisons
  • Integration w/other LFN projects helps get TF a step closer to becoming an LFN TAC member project
  • Folks are +1 on the idea
• NCDC update
  
  • Tweet announcement
  • Have a workshop and a speaking slot
  • Just need the content now (gated on Randy)
• networkservicemesh.io collaboration
  • It's the new hotness
  • Reference arch uses VPP only
  • SK recommended TF be a part of their ref arch
    • Will's already been doing a lot of work on this
  • SK will intro networkservicemesh.io core dev w/Will to sort out initial ideas
    • Have the core dev come present for ~15 minutes in an upcoming TSC call
  • DH: Why networkservicemesh instead of other tech (istio, linkerd, for instance)?
    • Please share this to the mailing list?
    • Istio & linkerd are at layers 4+
    • nsm are at layers 2 & 3, which is a better fit for us
  • Redapt could potentially lend a hand with this
  • CNCF is building a common test framework for all their projects (cross-cloud CI)
    • nsm is one of those projects, so being a part of that means we'd be a part of that testing
• CLA update
  • Pono set up CLA testing repo in gerrit.tungsten.io, so please give it a try
    
    • https://gerrit.tungsten.io/r/c/cla-testing/+/18
  • Also a docs repo ready for merge: https://gerrit.tungsten.io/r/c/docs/+/19
  • Still no process for current opencontrail gerrit
    • Will Stevens has had a very negative time doing this
  • https://jira.tungsten.io/browse/TFB-1394
    • ^^ old process, questions about same, some answers
  • Any way to get the email sent somewhere after submitted so we have eyes on it?
    • casey: private email list

Action items

• Sukhdev Kapurwhat's different with opencontrail and tungsten 5.1 releases
• Sukhdev Kapur email marketing@ about 5.1 cool stuff
• Sukhdev Kapur Get someone w/in Juniper to tag the 5.1 release
• Daniel Pono Takamori Continue the email thread about 5.1 release (incl Edward Ting & Prabhjot Singh Sethi )
• Prabhjot Singh Sethi will get the vsperf ball rolling with the OPNFV team
• Casey Cain Schedule reboot of TC call
• Casey Cain Get vsperf+vrouter onto TC call agenda
• Joseph Gasparakis Get a call with TF folks on vrouter perf (this action item duplicates the one above for Casey to add it to the TC agenda)
• Sukhdev Kapur Start email conversation between himself, Will Stevens, nsm core dev to get that ball rolling
• Sukhdev Kapur Report back next week on nsm conversations
• Casey Cain Create a CLA email address so we can capture CLA submissions